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  • KTH duo realizing vision for Russian tech centre

    Published Apr 03, 2013

    They regularly shuttle between meetings in Boston and Moscow, and stay in constant contact with teams on both sides of the Atlantic; but the pay-off for Mats Hanson and Kristina Edström is seeing a new university take shape.

  • The sound of innovation

    Published Mar 28, 2013

    As students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, their aspirations may have been "slightly delusional"; but today Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss oversee a Web start-up – SoundCloud – that reaches 180 million internet users monthly.

  • U.S. manufacturers rank 3D printing innovation among top 10

    Published Mar 27, 2013

    Nano-scale 3D printing research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has been named one of 10 innovations to watch by the U.S.-based Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

  • Magnetic nano-droplet discovery presents opportunities for telecommunications

    Published Mar 20, 2013

    A team that includes researchers from KTH has successfully created a magnetic soliton – a spin torque-generated nano-droplet that could lead to technological innovation in such areas as mobile telecommunications.

  • Cash prize for polymer pioneers

    Published Mar 15, 2013

    Mercene Labs has won the 2013 Ingemar Croon Award from KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Greenhouse Labs. The pioneering firm founded in 2012 is behind an advanced polymer solution with great potential.

  • Making fuel from bacteria

    Published Mar 13, 2013

    In the search for the fuels of tomorrow, KTH researchers are finding inspiration in the sea. Not in offshore oil wells, but in the water where blue-green algae thrive.

  • Tunnel vision: let there be light

    Published Mar 06, 2013

    For transportation authorities looking to reduce operation costs, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Or, in the case of Sweden, the light is inside the tunnel.

  • Traceable nanoparticles may be the next weapon in cancer treatment

    Published Mar 04, 2013

    Small particles loaded with medicine could be a future weapon for cancer treatment. A recently-published study shows how nanoparticles can be formed to efficiently carry cancer drugs to tumor cells. And because the particles can be seen in MRI images, they are traceable.

  • A new look at urbanization's environmental impact

    Published Feb 28, 2013

    A research team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology has developed a technique for quick, simple and cost-effective mapping of worldwide urban growth and its environmental impact.

  • New wastewater treatment technique protects fish from antidepressants

    Published Feb 26, 2013

    Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a new technique to prevent pharmaceutical residues from entering waterways and harming wildlife.

  • With robots, humans face ‘new society’

    Published Feb 22, 2013

    Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of funding for the Human Brain Project. Danica Kragic, a robotics researcher and computer science professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, says that while the prospect of living among humanoid robots calls to mind terrifying scenarios from science fiction, the reality of how humans cope with advances in robotics will be more complex, and subtle.

  • Report exposes Pakistani e-waste recycling workers’ plight

    Published Feb 21, 2013

    A 6-year-old girl in a remote Pakistani village sits quietly in the family’s kitchen, breathing toxic fumes that drift from across the table where her father is burning a computer circuit board. The scene is one of scores documented by researcher Shakila Umair, whose has compiled the first known evidence of horrifying conditions in the country’s secretive e-waste recycling cottage industry.

  • British Labour leader sees KTH Innovation as a “global model”

    Published Feb 20, 2013

    In an official visit on Tuesday to KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, British Labour Party leader Edward Miliband toured one of Europe’s most successful innovation centres, which he called “a global example.”

  • KTH mathematician praised in U.S. Congress

    Published Feb 12, 2013

    It's not every day that the subject of mathematical research is raised in the United States Congress. But a California congressman recently praised KTH Professor Mats Boij's ground-breaking work in mathematics during a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives.

  • Saab-KTH partnership flies even higher

    Published Feb 07, 2013

    Saab and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will strengthen long-term strategic cooperation in aviation research, education and innovation.

  • KTH among top 2 percent innovation institutions worldwide

    Published Feb 06, 2013

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS) has climbed up in the rankings of the world’s top innovation institutions, compiled by the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) initiative.

  • Industry engagement with academia is key to Swedish innovation

    Published Feb 06, 2013

    Competing with global innovation will require that Swedish business leaders look beyond quarterly earnings reports and focus on collaborative, long-term innovation development, industrialist Carl Bennet told participants at a recent seminar at KTH Innovation Studio.

  • Better protection needed from chemicals in products

    Published Feb 04, 2013

    European Union policy falls short of protecting consumers – and the environment – from the hazards of chemicals in textiles, building materials and other everyday products, a study conducted at KTH Royal Institute of Technology recently concluded.

  • Expert panel praises KTH

    Published Jan 30, 2013

    More than 100 international experts who have evaluated KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s research base have rated its Biotechnology research field as a Swedish flagship that could become Sweden’s answer to CERN. The experts have also concluded that KTH’s research base has a strong impact on society.

  • KTH researchers part of international brain project

    Published Jan 28, 2013

    Brain simulations are not new to KTH researcher Anders Lansner; but the EU-funded Human Brain Project is an entirely different matter, the computer science professor says.