What innovation skills should university education provide?

Tord Karlin, Director Technology Development

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Broadened assembly equipment offering through acquistions

Mycronic’s Assembly Solutions

• Jet printing & dispensing • Pick-and-place assembly equipment • Component storage systems

• Broad range of dispensing and coating systems

• Camera module assembly equipment

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Indispensable for the display industry

Mycronic’s Pattern Generator solutions

• FPS series

Display Multi-purpose Value Added Products

• Prexision mask writer & metrology series • Upgrades and modifications

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Mycronic in short

40 years of experience in

innovation

50 Mycronic is represented

in more than 50 countries

450 patents proves the

power of innovation. 26 patent added 2016.

2,500 customers use

production equipment from Mycronic

98% of consolidated net sales are exports

900 employees in ten

countries

2016 in short

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Record-high demand

• Record-high order intake and net sales

Record-high operating profit

• Operating profit increased 28%

• EBIT margin reached 30%

Strategic acquisitions

• Three acquisitions for continued growth

Net sales SEK 2,319 million Order intake SEK 2,455 million EBIT SEK 691 million

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Our core values guide us

Passion for Business

Passion for People

Passion for Technology

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Competence is a key factor

Power of innovation

Engineering partner

Mycronic Täby

Royotech

Axxon

Mycronic owned Partner

SW engineering partner AEI

Distributed global R&D

Extensive relations with academia and education Member of several international and national organizations

Diversity in workforce

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The power of academia

People with skills

New knowledge

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What innovation facilitating skills would I like to see more of?

Innovation and Education

•Teach students about…

•…innovation types and useful tools

•…knowledge visualization

•…modeling

•…set based development

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Different types of innovation…

• Incremental innovation • Most of the innovation in an

established company is here

• An existing technology put toward a new purpose to change basis of competition

• A culture of discovery • Well suited to be government

funded since hard for a company to fully appropriate the results from the investment

• Combining deep expertise in closely related fields with just a small portion of knowledge from some unlikely place

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…are stimulated by different tool sets

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The power of making knowledge accessible for someone else

Knowledge access is greatly facilitated by…

…and by validated models. …visualization such as trade-off curves…

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What could possibly go wrong in sustaining innovation?

Early technical decisions save time and resources !!!

Too early technical decisions kill innovation, product time to market

and profitability.

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The power of set-based development

Zehra Canan Araci, Ahmed Al-Ashaab and Maksim Maksimovic Manufacturing Department, School of Aerospace Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, UK Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 14,I ssue 1 2016

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What innovation facilitating skills would I like to see more of?

Innovation and Education

•Teach students about…

•…innovation types and useful tools

•…knowledge visualization

•…modeling

•…set based development

Summary

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Thank you!