Fredrik Svahn

Fredrik holds a position as technical analyst at Viktoria Institute since 2007. He is also doctoral student at the department of informatics at Umeå University. He earned his M.Sc. in applied physics and electrical engineering at Linköping Institute of Technology in 1996. Fredrik has 10 years of professional experience from Avionics, Telecom and Automotive industries.

Projects

Currently Fredrik is involved in the project Open Design Infrastructures, which is part of Vinnovas's program for strategic vehicle research and innovation (FFI). 

Research

Fredrik's research is focused on new patterns of innovation emerging in response to digitization of manufactured products. It aims for an increased understanding of:

• how the concept of modularity is changed, from hardware oriented and hierarchical to software/service oriented and polyarchical.
• how product and industry boundaries are blurred, eventually threatening dominant designs of an industry.
• how the concept of materiality is changed, when functionality, represented by software, can be moved, duplicated, changed or combined without "visiting" the physical realm.

For a list of Fredrik's publications, click here.