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1. Creating value from science : Interaction between academia, business and healthcare in the Uppsala PET Centre case
Abstract : Recent decades have seen greater focus, both national and global, on universities’ role in boosting economic growth. Besides teaching and conducting research, universities are urged to contribute directly to the economy by commercialising research findings and interacting with industry. READ MORE
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2. Success as Science but Burden for Business? : On the difficult relationship between scientific advancement and innovation
Abstract : Today, a general policy and investment recipe for economic growth and innovation, on both a national and an international level, is to base commercial ventures on novel scientific solutions. From this perspective, scientific research is seen as an untapped source of innovation, and the ambition is to make new scientific knowledge more easily transferable to business settings, where it is supposed to generate direct economic benefits. READ MORE
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3. Science Parks and talent attraction : a study on the development of Science Parks
Abstract : This dissertation investigates the development of Science Parks (SPs) from the perspective of talent attraction activities. Studies on SPs often address only traditional services that parks provide tenant firms. READ MORE
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4. On customer value : a study of the IT supplier Atea and three of its customers
Abstract : At the turn of the twenty-first century, the PC company Dell was known for its "famous direct method" (Afuah and Tucci, 2003), which alludes to the direct business model. Dell created a tightly aligned business model that enabled it to manage away the need for its component inventories (Jonathan Bymes, 2003). READ MORE
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5. Market, State, and Morality : Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System
Abstract : The bulk of the literature on the New Public Management (NPM) has been blind to the moral dimension of the market-oriented reforms of the public sector. However, this thesis studies the potential for institutional arrangements such as financial incentives and other market mechanisms to undermine intrinsic, moral motivation among both“producers” and “consumers” of tax-financed welfare services. READ MORE