NEW RESEARCH | How to create sustainable and competitive businesses
Businesses are major climate culprits – but a transition is possible and those who invest in sustainable innovations can see huge successes. But the right conditions are needed. Former Norsi PhD student Fanny Hermundsdottir explains how.
BOOK TIPS | The importance of ecosystem thinking
What is the impact of entrepreneurship on the world’s economies? The editors of The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Global Perspective believe that we can only understand it by looking at entrepreneurship from an ecosystem perspective. The book pays great attention to methods for measuring and evaluating the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Elsewhere, we can read about the ‘entrepreneurship […]
NEW RESEARCH | How to use failed innovation projects to your advantage – researchers advise
Networks, skills and established procedures are examples of resources that can be reused from failed projects. Researchers can now explain how, and give their top tips for entrepreneurs who want to invest in new innovations.
HELLO THERE! Mats Bergman – new dean at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics.
His own research focuses on the intersection of the market and the state, and he has extensive experience of gender equality work in academia. After 19 years at Södertörn University, Professor Mats Bergman is now returning to his childhood town to head the Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics.
NEW RESEARCH | Women run rural businesses for life balance
More and more women are choosing to stay in or return to rural areas to work in family businesses.
And the goal is clear – a better quality of life.
HELLO THERE! Stefan Bernat – former Brazilian colonel and recent PhD student at Linköping University.
Last year, he retired from his 30-year career in the Brazilian army to focus on digital transformation research. In his doctoral thesis, Stefan Bernat studied the innovation capacity of companies in emerging economies.
BOOK TIPS | Innovation Competence
We already know that innovation processes are slow, collective and social. The book Encouraging Innovation – Cognition, Education, and Implementation explores this further.
NEW RESEARCH | Why farmers need to identify themselves as entrepreneurs
In order for the agricultural sector to successfully transition to more climate-smart and sustainable food production, farmers need to review their self-image. This is according to researchers at Halmstad University.
NEW RESEARCH | Newsrooms in a constant process of innovation
First, there were the digital platforms. And today, AI is rewriting the map for newsrooms around the world. Researchers can now tell you about the challenges of being an industry in a constant state of innovation.
HELLO THERE! Johan Karlsson – recipient of the Young Researcher Award 2023
He has created a unique database to study family businesses in Sweden. Johan Karlsson, PhD, is now receiving SEK 150 000 for his research on family businesses and barriers to growth. Congratulations on the award! What does the award mean to you? – “It is of course an honor and a pleasure that my research […]
