Research Initiative on Sustainable Industry and Society (IRIS)
IRIS is an initiative for enabling researchers to work together, across departments at the ITM school, on joint research projects. With the holistic interdisciplinary perspective, the aim is to enhance the impact of KTH's research for more a sustainable industry and society.
Interdisciplinarity for a new industrial society
The mission of the ITM school is to lead the transition towards a zero-emission, adaptable industrial-society characterized by new product and service designs, new materials, new business models, sustainable energy systems, recycling, reuse and remanufacture. The interdisciplinary project IRIS shows the way.
Dr Veena Singh (MSE) and Fabio Marco Monetti (IIP) discussing experiences of battery production while the performance of batteries are being tested over 1000s of charging and discharging cycles.
Research for recharge-able button batteries that substitute lithium with non-toxic materials
ITM's Material Science and Engineering and Production Engineering departments have combined forces to concurrently research battery materials and battery production processes. The aim is to optimise ...
ITM’s flagship project IRIS has reached half term. Has the ambition to create strong multi-disciplinary research environments on “sustainable industry and society” and stimulate new collaborations sur...
Crowdfunded women better at reaching funding goals
Backed up by women, female entrepreneurs at crowdfunding platforms reach their funding goals more often than men. Hadar Gafni at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management has mapped the ge...
Area 1: Industrial Transformation through sustainable digitalization
Assessing the strategic and operational considerations in the next generation digitalisation with a focus on competitiveness via circular/shared economies.
Area 2: Integrated mechanics, components and materials design
Concurrently addressing component design, manufacturing process optimisations and material selection/design, with a focus on metallic and functional materials, especially in additive manufacturing.
Area 3: Sustainable Energy Systems – Technology and Business Perspectives
Researching on technologies for a carbon-neutral vision while simultaneously assessing how firms, industries and countries are working are working in practice make transitions in their energy mix.
Area 4: Innovation management, eco-systems and entrepreneurship
Assessing how sustainability managers perceive initiatives or crises in peer companies – and how that prompts them to trigger changes in their own firm.
