Saab and BTH Sign Strategic Collaboration Agreement
Defence and security company Saab and Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Sweden have signed a collaboration agreement concerning research, innovation, and education.
The agreement was signed by Petter Bedoire, Chief Technology Officer of Saab, Christian Hedelin, Chief Strategy Officer of Saab, Henric Johnson, Vice-Chancellor at BTH, and Mats Wicksell Senior Vice President and Head of Business Area Kockums.
The agreement is a platform for long-term and strategic competence provision, providing added value to mutually strengthen BTH and Saab.
“BTH’s profile of applied research and long tradition of collaboration with business and society, to a very large extent, meets Saab’s needs in areas such as machine learning and marine technology,” says Christian Hedelin, Chief Strategy Officer of Saab.
Together, BTH and Saab will develop activities within education and research for the benefit of both parties and make competence and resources available to each other. Focus areas include, for example, systems engineering, computer science, and software engineering.
“Saab is an important strategic partner. By deepening and formalising the collaboration, we see even greater opportunities to develop research, education, and innovations together. Academia and the business sector need to work closely and in the long term to solve today’s complex technological and societal challenges,” says Henric Johnson, Vice-Chancellor at BTH.