The Product Innovation Engineering Program: Promoting Creativity, Synthesis and International Collaboration

The Product Innovation Engineering Program, PIEp, is a large, national research and development program aimed at performing a system change of innovation capabilities within Swedish industry and higher education. PIEp is a network of students, researchers and product developers and relies heavily on collaboration with international renowned networks, advisors and universities. This paper aims at introducing PIEp and the fields of PIEp active in engineering education on an international arena. The ambition is to strengthen existing networks and find new partners. One of the ambitions of this paper is further to promote the program with the purpose of finding future collaborative projects, within the context of product innovation engineering education. Also, current activities and results from the first years of operation are presented.