Search for dissertations about: "technological forecasting"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words technological forecasting.
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1. Technological Discontinuities and Industrial Dynamics
Abstract : A technological discontinuity is a substantial change in the set of technological competences required to design and produce a product, often resulting in a significant change in the price/performance ratio of a product. Established firms often face severe difficulties in adjusting to a discontinuity. READ MORE
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2. Motivating External Participation in Marketing Intelligence Foresight
Abstract : Long-range planning for purposes of deciding on the development of high investment and long development cycle activities requires that assumptions be made about environmental factors at the time of their future completion. For organizations that serve a market, the future market factors related to supply, demand, and technological developments are at once fundamentally critical and unknowable with certainty. READ MORE
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3. Evolution of Techno-Economic Systems - An Investigation of the History of Mobile Communications
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of how techno-economic systems emerge and evolve and how such processes can be analyzed. To these ends, the history of mobile communications is investigated, seen as a complex techno-economic system with two rapidly evolving and interacting subsystems - mobile telephony and mobile data communications - which are described, dissected and compared in case studies. READ MORE
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4. US Equity REIT Returns and Digitalization
Abstract : This licentiate thesis is a collection of two essays that utilize time-series econometric methods in real estate finance. The first essay applies econometric modelling on Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) index returns, focusing on estimating the effect of the quantitative easing (QE) and quantitative tightening (QT) programmes on U.S. READ MORE
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5. An Integrated Development Approach for Monitoring and Simulation to Predict Functional Product Availability
Abstract : For nearly two decades, business models such as Functional Products have been in focus within research and of interest in the manufacturing industry. Functional product offers consist of hardware, software, service -support systems and management of operation which, when developed in an integrated manner, together provide the customer with an agreed-upon function with a specified level of availability. READ MORE