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Thomas Nyström

Researcher

Tel

+46 73 079 58 21

Email

thomas.nystrom@ri.se

Location

Göteborg

Unit

Sustainable Business (104206)

Design researcher with an intrapreneurial, opportunity-oriented mindset with more than 20 years of experience in business and design, project management, teaching, and facilitating organizational change in cross-functional and international teams. My research at RISE, Sustainable Business is focusing on building applicable knowledge about circular business innovation that can move industry and society towards more resource productive circular business models that can lead to transformative climate and environmental impact reductions.

My specific research focus is on how physical products can be designed for lowering business risk in circular business models. This could be achieved by designing physical products to become “Future Adaptable” for various future changes. Read more at:https://www.ri.se/en/what-we-do/expertises/future-adaptive-design-for-a…

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The circular car (pre-study)

The need for circular conversion is great in many industries, not least in the automotive industry and for mobility in society at large. Electrification and circular economy are two factors that are of great relevance.

Future Adaptable Design Electrical Vehicle by Circular Business models, FAD-EV

The project aims to develop prototypes for profitable circular business models with associated design specifications for future-adapted heavy electric vehicles and electric cars for more electric vehicle miles.

Knowledge Transfer for Circular Business Ecosystems

The project aims to accelerate the transition to resource-efficient circular business models in the textiles, furniture and automotive industries in West Sweden. This will be achieved by bridging existing and promising circular bu…

Mobility Hubs of the Future

What will future mobility stations look like? how do they integrate different modes of transport so that they actually facilitate combined, multimodal mobility? Together with Nacka and Linköping municipality, OKQ8 and architects f…

Circular business ecosystem: Sensors and recycling for heavy vehicle tyres

This project builds knowledge about how the heavy vehicle tyre system in Sweden could become more circular and resource efficient. New service-based business models based on integrated sensor data and increased retreading activity…

Furniture company EFG succeeded in instituting a circular business model

How can we combine circularity with a sustainable business model? This was a question that Andreas Mattisson of furniture company EFG had given a great deal of thought to. It was only after chancing on a lecture on future adaptive…

Change and service life in focus when designing circular products

Circular products are designed with change and longevity as watchwords. Regardless of if the colour of a car or refrigerator is no longer in fashion or if it requires an upgrade with a new sensor, today's manufacturers must integr…

Circular Business Models

Circular business models create and capture value from used items to enable a cost advantage and superior customer value. But competitive advantages like that originate from the innovation being hard to achieve. We study both the …

Future adaptive design for a circular ec

Future adaptive design can reduce business risks in circular business models through a product design for extended product life, through robustness, flexibility, and upgradeability