With the winners of the innovation award Guldæg 2018 from Emplate and the InnoFounder 2018 winners from IoTeelab among the students celebrated by Aarhus University on 25 October, the Department of Business Development and Technology was strongly represented at the event.

Anders Frederiksen will continue as head of Aarhus University’s Department of Business Development and Technology in Herning for the next three years. Aarhus BSS at Aarhus University has just extended the 42-year old Professor Anders Frederiksen’s appointment as head of department until 2022.

Only 25 PhD students from across Europe are lucky enough to participate in the EIT Global Food Venture programme, and one of these are Dafni-Despoina Avgoustaki from Aarhus University’s Department of Business Development and Technology in Herning. As the only representative from a Danish university, Dafni will receive tailored one-to-one mentoring for the next nine months, meet with investors and travel to Munich, Israel, Silicon Valley and Paris.

Shortly before 2pm, Emil Kjærgaard Petersen received his final grade and with that the title of Master of Science in Engineering. As he left the examination room, he was greeted by a celebration committee. He was no less than the 400th student on the MSc in Engineering to graduate in Herning, and it seems plenty more will follow.

“A lot of my fellow students in Aarhus are thinking of studying in Herning like me,” said the happy and relieved graduate.

100 university students and 20 local companies met at the annual TBMI Challenge, arranged by and held at Aarhus University in Herning. One of the companies was konfAir from Herning, which received constructive input for whether investing in new technology will pay off.

Hussam Mansour and Szabolcs Nagy, who study Technology Based Business Development at Aarhus University in Herning, have just won the 2018 Innovation Award for their project ‘Smart recycling’. The award includes a cash prize of DKK 50,000 and a Springboard® session. The award was presented by Minister for Higher Education and Science Søren Pind at the Festival of Research at VIA University College.

On the last day of January, the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Brian Mikkelsen and Minister of Education Merete Riisager visited the Department of Business Development and Technology to present the Danish Government’s Strategy for Denmark’s Digital Growth. The visit also gave the ministers an insight into what the students are working with, e.g. The Internet of Things.

På Institut for Forretningsudvikling og Teknologi i Herning samler man den nyeste forskning inden for automatisering, udviklingsprocesser, produktudvikling, disruption og Big Data, når der afholdes temadag om logistik torsdag den 7. september 2017. Kom og bliv inspireret, når tendenserne inden for logistikken ses fra en teoretisk tankegang og ledende erhvervsfolk sætter dem i relation til praktiske cases.