Sökning: "distributed economies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden distributed economies.
1. The Performance, Interoperability and Integration of Distributed Ledger Technologies
Sammanfattning : In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, Bitcoin emerged as a radical new alternative to the fiat currencies of the traditional banking sector. Through the use of a novel kind of probabilistic consensus algorithm, Bitcoin proved it possible to guarantee the integrity of a digital currency by relying on network majority votes instead of trusted institutions. LÄS MER
2. Industrial Symbiosis - A Tool for More Sustainable Regions?
Sammanfattning : Today's industrial systems are regarded to have unsustainable characteristics. In order to acquire a more sustainable state, fundamental changes are needed in the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the resource flows associated with such systems. LÄS MER
3. Faraway, so Close! : The Changing Geographies of Regional Innovation
Sammanfattning : Innovation, the act and outcome of making something novel, is unevenly distributed across the geographical landscape. This uneven distribution has a profound impact on the differential success of regional economies. LÄS MER
4. Decision-making in SME internationalization : The role and use of Control in decisions made under the uncertainties of foreign market expansion
Sammanfattning : Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make the backbone of virtually all economies but most of them are only marginally engaged with global markets, particularly those from developing countries. Our ability to advise these firms is currently limited for two major reasons: on the one hand, conventional International Business literature treats the firm as a black box and does not advance in decision-making dynamics that are critical to SMEs' foreign expansion; on the other, recent SME internationalization studies have achieved important progress but seem dependent on the use of Effectuation theory to represent the decisions that guide SME internationalization. LÄS MER
5. Non-geological hydrogen storage for fossil-free steelmaking
Sammanfattning : In the last half-century, global steel use has increased more than threefold and further growth is expected, particularly in developing economies. However, steelmaking is currently responsible for 7% of the global net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and any substantial further optimization of existing processes that utilize fossil fuels for iron ore reduction is infeasible. LÄS MER