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Communication breakdowns cost
Published Jan 20, 2010Failing communication and deficiencies in the handling of information costs manufacturing companies large sums of money every year. Now researchers at KTH have analysed the situation and developed eco...
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Artist’s earnings are soaring
Published Dec 22, 2009Compared to what many people previously believed, musicians are not exactly suffering. From 2000 to 2008, revenues increased from SEK 786 million to SEK 1,058 million, an increase of 35% - as shown b...
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This is why KTH is a prize-winner: all students find employment
Published Dec 22, 2009The students that have studied at the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) at KTH all find employment one year after taking their degree. The fact is that many students at CSC already ha...
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Foodstuffs packaging will now become environmentally friendly
Published Dec 21, 2009A major problem for the packaging of fatty foods is that many of them have proven to be damaging to the environment and they are also difficult to break down. New research from KTH can pave the way to...
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KTH won EU assignment for innovations
Published Dec 17, 2009KTH forms part of the two winning consortia that will make Europe a global leader for innovations in ICT and Sustainable Energy. The prestigious EU collaboration EIT has formed three new so-called Kno...
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Sweden’s most important plant will be mapped
Published Dec 17, 2009You will soon be dancing around your Christmas tree and you must give a thought to the beautifully decorated tree which is one of our country’s most important plants. Without the wood from the conifer...
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Medical technology for real health care needs
Published Dec 16, 2009A new training programme will pave the way for more medical innovations. The idea is to make it easier to find technical solutions to problems in the day-to-day work carried out by health care clinics...
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50 % easier to find cancer tumours
Published Dec 15, 2009New x-ray technology makes it 50% easier to find cancer tumours in women’s breasts. Another possibility with the technology is a reduction of the radiation by 20%. This is according to new research fr...
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Nobel laureate provides KTH researchers with help on the way
Published Dec 14, 2009In a few days time the Nobel prize in chemistry will be awarded and the prize-winners Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath will be rewarded by having demonstrated what ribosome looks...
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Cancer analyses at turbo speed
Published Dec 10, 2009Ten times more efficient use of the space on the plates used for cell diagnostics will provide much faster readouts of smear tests and more results. Analyses which previously took weeks can now be do...
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Uhlén foremost entrepreneur among Sweden’s researchers
Published Dec 09, 2009Mathias Uhlén, professor of biochemistry at KTH, has recently been nominated as the “Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of Sweden 2009” by The Technopolicy Network and Vinnova. He is receiving the award i...
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Here are KTH’s environmental experts
Published Dec 08, 2009As we approach the UN’s major environmental conference COP15 in Copenhagen in December, we have prepared a list of some of the environmental experts operating at KTH.
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No environmental benefit with e-books
Published Dec 07, 2009You have to read at least 33 books during the lifetime of an electronic reading pad in order for it to be of benefit from a climate point of view. This has been demonstrated via a study conducted by t...
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First out with major investment in maths coaches on the Internet
Published Dec 01, 2009Now all of the students in Stockholm will be able to gain free access to maths coaches on the Internet. Every ordinary working Monday to Thursday between the hours of 16.00 -19.00 there will be future...
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Zennström’s KTH million for the environment
Published Nov 30, 2009Niklas Zennström has accepted KTH’s Major Prize. We had an exclusive chat with the winner where he says that the KTH money will be donated to environmental organisations and for the development of ope...
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KTH is building innovation offices
Published Nov 27, 2009KTH will receive SEK 9 million from the government to build up regional innovation offices. As a first stage in the process, KTH is initiating cooperation with Uppsala University’s innovation office u...
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Sustainable development, the challenge of the future
Published Nov 26, 2009The course catalogue for the university’s educations is now ready and KTH can present two new educational programs which specialise in sustainable development There are two courses offered, one of whi...
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Sweden’s most promising technology companies
Published Nov 25, 2009The awards are poring over Peerialism, a company which has a strong association with KTH. Previously this year, the company received coverage in the magazines Ny Teknik and Affärsvärlden, the latter l...
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Major advances in tiny technologies
Published Nov 24, 2009Micromillimetre-small engineering can be used everywhere; as a component in a printer head, fuel cells, medical equipment or in consumer products such as sensors in mobile telephones such as iPhones o...
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Joint elite laboratory fights national disease
Published Nov 18, 2009KTH, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University together will transform the area surrounding Norra Station in Stockholm into the world’s most prominent area for Life science year 2025. The resear...
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