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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas´; Altmann, Jörn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions have renewed the interest in the development of...

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Routines and Communities of Practice in Public Environmental Procurement Processes

Larsen, Katarina; Svane, Örjan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

Environmental procurement has received increasing attention as a policy tool promoting change towards sustainable consumption and production. The successful implementation of public environmental procurement policy requires the establishment of new routines for user-producer-supplier...

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University choice and entrepreneurship

Daghbashyan, Zara; Hårsman, Björn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper aims at shedding light upon the impact of universities on graduates’ entrepreneurial choice. Previous studies (Dale and Krueger, 2002, Brand and Halaby, 2006, McGuinness, 2003) have analyzed the relationship between the choice of university and labor market success of graduates in...

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Entrepreneurship and Arts Related Education

Daghbashyan, Zara; Hårsman, Björn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

The aim of this paper is to improve understanding of the observed high level of entrepreneurship among arts graduates. Specifically, the entrepreneurship rates of university graduates in the arts, architecture and engineering are compared. The occupational choice model applied has three options:...

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One Share-One Vote: New Empirical Evidence

Eklund, Johan; Poulsen, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

Shares with more voting rights than cash flow rights provide their owners with a disproportional influence that is often found to destroy the value of outside equity. This is taken as evidence of discretionary use of power. However, concentration of power does not necessarily result from control...

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Determinants of Buyouts in Private Equity Firms

Nordström, Louise; Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Private equity companies have become a major force in the economic landscape. Financial- and operational-engineering are innovative characteristics of this emerging method of finance. The existing empirical data provide strong evidence that private equity activity contribute positively to the...

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Performance Evaluation Based on the Robust Mahalanobis Distance and Multilevel Modelling Using Two New Strategies

Hussain, S; Mohamed, M. A.; Holder, R.; Almasri, A.; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

In this paper we propose a general framework for performance evaluation of organisations and individuals over time … using routinely collected performance variables or indicators. Such variables or indicators are often correlated over time … considers performance monitoring of gynaecologists and example two considers the performance of industrial firms. …

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Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-project and the Role of Labour Movement in Technological Change, 1981—1986

Lundin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The paper describes and analyses a Scandinavian research project on trade union based development of, and training in, computer technology and work organization, especially text and image processing in the graphic industries, that was named UTOPIA and carried out between 1981 and 1986. UTOPIA...

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Creating Innovations, Productivity and Growth - the efficiency of Icelandic firms

Ho, Dong-huyn; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

service firms typically use excessive resources in their production process. A remarkably weak performance in transforming R …

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...

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