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1. Integrated Solutions in the Capital Goods Sector : Exploring innovation, service and network perspectives
Sammanfattning : With varying degrees of success, a number of firms in the capital goods sector are experimenting with different ‘integrated solutions’ initiatives. Integrated solutions include product innovations which enable increased process control that allows the optimisation of the customers’ processes, as well as business innovations which change the firms’ business models and customer approach. LÄS MER
2. Shaping and Exploiting Technological Opportunities: The Case of Renewable Energy Technology in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on how the Swedish capital goods industry exploits (or fails to exploit) opportunities within renewable energy technology to build new growth industries and how it, in that process, shapes the diffusion of such technologies on the market. The thesis consists of a covering paper and the work contained in four appended papers. LÄS MER
3. Growth and Business Cycles -Swedish Manufacturing Industry 1952-2001
Sammanfattning : This study shows that the mechanisms behind knowledge accumulation and the sources of productivity growth differ from industry to industry depending on what is produced and what technology is used. Although it is apparent to most researchers in the field that the only way to explain long-run growth in output per capita is through technological progress and accumulation of knowledge that counteract the dampening effect of diminishing returns, we are still in the dark about how such mechanisms operate. LÄS MER
4. Towards integrated solutions : Alfa Laval and the wastewater industry
Sammanfattning : Manufacturing companies in the capital goods industry face opportunities and challenges to their traditionally used business model for selling products, spare parts and services. They are encountering increasing pressure to provide their customers with broader, more tailored solutions. LÄS MER
5. Human Capital in Development Accounting and Other Essays in Economics
Sammanfattning : Human Capital and Development Accounting Revisited. I quantify the effects on development accounting of allowing for imperfectly substitutable labor services. LÄS MER