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- Gelter, Hans
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Projekt: Snö och is som innovativ resurs för besöksnäringen
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Syftet med projektet är att generera generiska kunskaper om snö och is som naturlig och hållbar resurs för innovativ produkt- och destinationsutveckling. Via omvärldsanalys och benchmarking, thinktank för koncept och produktutveckling och skapande av en experimentell IceLab och test-arena för snökonstruktioner och upplevelser kring snö och is, avser projektet att bidra till ny kunskap och innovativ inspiration till besöksnäringen att utnyttja snö och is som resurs till produkt- och destinationsutveckling och därigenom stärka Sverige som en innovativ vinterdestination. Målgrupp för projektets resultat är förutom forskarvärlden, befintliga och tillkommande entreprenörer samt destinationsorganisationer (DMO´s) och kommuner som har en naturlig tillgång till snö och is.
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- Isaksson, Raine, et al.
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Detecting Supply Chain Innovation Potential for Sustainable Development
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - Dordrecht : D. Reidel. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 3:97, s. 425-442
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In a world of limited resources it could be argued that companies that aspire to be good corporate citizens need to focus on making best use of resources. User value and environmental harm is created in supply chains and it could therefore be argued that company business ethics should be extended from the company to the entire value chain from the first supplier to the last customer. Starting with a delineation of the linkages between business ethics, corporate sustainability and the stakeholder concept, this paper argues that supply chains generally have a great innovation potential for sustainable development. This potential could be highlighted with system thinking and the use of change management knowledge, promoting not only innovations within technology but also within organizational improvement. We propose process models and performance indicators as means of highlighting improvement potential and thus breaking down normative business ethics’ requirements to an operationalizable corporate level: Good business ethics should focus on maximizing stakeholder value in relation to harm done. Our results indicate that focusing on supply chains reveals previously unknown innovation potential that seems to be related to limited system understanding. The assumption is that increased visibility of opportunities will act as a driver for change. Results also highlight the importance of focusing on sustainability effects of the core business and clearly relating value created to harm done.
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- Isaksson, Raine, et al.
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Towards a Model for Measuring University Sustainability
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Intellectual Capital 2013. - Reading, UK : Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. - 9781909507159 - 9781909507135 ; , s. 213-221
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The multitude of challenges related to sustainable development require, not only a shift in mind-set but also high competence in most sectors of employment. But how could we know if a university education is going to provide necessary competence in sustainable development? A model being developed to measure university sustainability is the Assessment Instrument of Sustainability in Higher Education (AISHE). Using the logic of self-assessment and based on the Triple Bottom Line this model deals with operations, education, research, interaction with society and core values with a so called identity module. The model makes an operationalization of sustainable development and its structure should be usable for constructing a quick assessment system similar to those of many business excellence models. Finding out the level of university sustainability is clearly not very easy for presumptive students. Furthermore, we can assume that since being sustainable is politically correct there is a risk of “sustainability washing” of information provided. Current university ranking systems do not seem to correspond well with how universities are working with sustainable development. The research question is if the AISHE-model could be converted into a credible quick assessment tool by relying on information provided by the university web-site. For this to work the university needs to have a culture that promotes transparency. With the rapid development of information technology it could be expected that more and more countries will have the conditions for using web-sites for providing the necessary information. Swedish university web-sites are used for testing the model. Sweden has a high level of transparency and is therefore thought to form a suitable example. This paper deals with conceptual development of the assessment model. Further studies will be carried out to validate the model. Results indicate that a structured web-site analysis can be used to quantify information that is organised according to chosen parts of the AISHE-model. The first results indicate that Swedish universities still have a long way to go in becoming sustainable.
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- Lindahl, Olof A, et al.
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Biomedical engineering research improves the health care industry
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Ingår i: XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319008455 - 9783319008462 ; , s. 1124-1126
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The health care industry is dependent on new innovations for its survival and expansion. Health care innovations are also important for improving patient care. Through activities at the centre for biomedical engineering and physics (CMTF) we have generated growth both in academia at the universities and in the industry in northern Sweden. Fruitful cooperation was generated between 26 research projects and about 15 established companies in the field of biomedical engineering. The established researcher-owned company for business development of the research results from the CMTF, CMTF Business Development Co Ltd, has so far launched three spin-off companies and has 10 new business leads to develop. The activities have also increased the interest for commercialization and entrepreneurship among the scientists in the centre. So far a total of nine spin-off companies have resulted from the CMTF-research since the year 2000 that has improved the health care market in northern Sweden. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
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