NEW RESEARCH | Holistic approach needed for innovation in manufacturing
These are busy days for manufacturing companies that want to keep up with digital developments. Researchers have now developed tools to help companies navigate the transition.
BOOK TIP | Innovative business models in a changing world
New technologies, the climate crisis, the changing security landscape and social issues are just some of the global challenges affecting businesses worldwide. The book “Business Model Innovation: Game Changer and Contemporary Issues” focuses on how businesses can navigate a rapidly changing world.
Researchers’ tips: How to succeed with innovation in project-based companies
In organizations based on different projects with specific leaders and budgets, it is particularly difficult to drive innovation. So what are the keys to success?
NEW RESEARCH | Microentrepreneurs lead rural digital transformation
The digital transformation in rural areas is largely driven by the local population, shows a new doctoral thesis by Johanna Lindberg at Luleå University of Technology. Through a system perspective, she has investigated how digital services can be integrated to meet the specific needs of rural areas.
BOOK TIPS | An entrepreneurial mindset
How do entrepreneurs think and feel? In the book Psychological Foundations of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, entrepreneurship professor and author Kelly G. Shaver examines the psychological processes that underlie entrepreneurship.
The pressure is on: artists are forced to become ‘artrepreneurs’
How are artists affected by societal demands to act as entrepreneurs? Is this compatible with artistic freedom? Researchers at Södertörn University will investigate this in a newly launched Baltic Sea project.
NEW RESEARCH | Five keys to successful innovation networks
Developing digital innovations often requires collaboration between multiple actors. But collaboration is no easy feat. So how do successful innovation networks work?
HELLO THERE! Virginia Dignum – Professor of Responsible AI
She is a member of the UN AI Panel, which has developed guidelines on how to manage new technologies globally. But what about the small businesses, and what is important to consider as a small business owner? Virginia Dignum, professor of artificial intelligence at Umeå University, explains.
NEW RESEARCH | “Entrepreneurial” urban planning excludes several social groups
Do more shops and surveillance cameras make public spaces safer for everyone? No, not at all, according to sociology researchers at Mid Sweden University.
NEW RESEARCH | How the gig economy shapes self-employed work and self-image
Uncertainty and precarious working conditions are an everyday reality for freelance cultural workers. But there are also many positive aspects to being a small business owner in a gig economy.
