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How "soft" is soft funding? - An explorative study of legitimacy in public financing
(Master thesis, 2019)Unge teknologiselskaper møter utfordringer ved å være små og nye, og med lite å vise til av teknologisk, organisasjonsmessig eller markedsmessig utvikling, blir det å sikre finansiering fra det offentlige virkemiddelapparatet ... -
How "soft" is soft funding? - An explorative study of legitimacy in public financing
(Master thesis, 2019)Unge teknologiselskaper møter utfordringer ved å være små og nye, og med lite å vise til av teknologisk, organisasjonsmessig eller markedsmessig utvikling, blir det å sikre finansiering fra det offentlige virkemiddelapparatet ... -
How Ambidextrous Is Your Company's Culture?
(Master thesis, 2015)Companies need to be more innovative in meeting the increasing demands of today s global competitive pressures and rapid market changes. In recent years, the need for innovation has made ambidexterity the ability to ... -
How and Why do Companies Perform Open Innovation?: -a comparative study of Norwegian SMEs and large companies
(Master thesis, 2013)The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate how and why Norwegian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), compared to large Norwegian companies, implement Open Innovation strategies. The emphasis is on the ... -
How and why do Research Based Spin-Offs change their Business Model?
(Master thesis, 2014)Research based spin-offs (RBSO) are new firms created to commercially exploit knowledge, technology or research results developed within an academic institution. The phenomenon of RBSOs has become an increasingly important ... -
How big-science centres facilitate the creation of new technology-based firms.
(Master thesis, 2012)This thesis examines how five intergovernmental big-science organizations facilitate the creation of new technology based firms. The context of intergovernmental research organization is underexplored in the literature ... -
How can an engineering project executed by an alliance become more lean?
(Master thesis, 2017)In recent years, the focus on finding more efficient solutions for project execution in the oil and gas industry has increased. In order to make the project execution more efficient, several operators have found that they ... -
How can an SME buyer develop its suppliers?
(Master thesis, 2019)There is an abundant literature regarding supplier development in collaboration with big companies. Nowadays, Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) are growing in number and there is not much research in collaboration with ... -
How can indicators be used to provide early warnings of major accidents in the petroleum industry?
(Master thesis, 2013)AbstractTo avoid accidents and unwanted events, monitoring of accident risk, especially the accumulation of risk factors, is an important part of overall risk management. One of the more useful methods for monitoring risk ... -
How can research institutions best support potential and existing spin-off companies?
(Master thesis, 2014)In this paper, several spin-offs from international research institutions are interviewed in order to get insight into how these institutions can best support their potential and current spin-off companies. Using existing ... -
How can SMEs and NGOs collaborate -: a case study of critical factors in alliance structures
(Master thesis, 2013)This Thesis search to answer the question: How can small and medium sized enterprises [SMEs] and non governmental organisations [NGOs] build a robust alliance in order to launch a new product in bottom of the pyramid [BOP] ... -
How can the lead-user method add value to the user focus in a company’s front end process? - Case study from the telecommunication industry
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis uses a company from the telecommunication industry as case for studying how the front end of innovation is structured and how the lead-user method can add value to the user focus of the activities in the front ... -
How Can the Public and Private Sector Work Together to Ensure More Sustainable Farming for Smallholder Farmers? - A Study of Public-Private Partnerships
(Master thesis, 2018)The future of the world s food systems is at risk, and there is an urgent need to tackle these issues before there are not enough resources to feed the world s population. In order to do so, the public and private sector ... -
How do companies learn from internal/external experience?
(Master thesis, 2013)SummaryThe thesis is a response to the fact that the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority questions the learning ability of the petroleum companies that are operating on the Norwegian continental shelf, despite that this ... -
How do Delays Along the Way Influence Delays to Final Destination?
(Master thesis, 2013)Abstract:In daily operation, railway traffic always deviates from the planned schedule to a certain extent. Initial disturbances of trains at some point along the line may cause a whole cascade of delays over the entire ... -
How do Project Managers' of Land-Based Operations Perceive the Transfer of Tacit Knowledge between Projects? - A Case Study of ÅF Reinertsen
(Master thesis, 2016)The purpose of this thesis is to understand what hampers Knowledge Transfer between projects in the construction sector, as seen from a Project Manager s perspective through a case analysis of ÅF Reinertsen AS, a company ... -
How does human capital affect the performance of academic spin-offs?
(Master thesis, 2014)Article 1: Investigates the field of academic spin-offs. This type of spin-offs commercialize research results from research institutions and are believed to be a source of wealth creation. Even though academic spin-offs ... -
How Industry Makes Knowledge: Facilitative Management
(Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2014:208, Doctoral thesis, 2014)Denne avhandlingen stiller spørsmålet, Hvordan dannes kunnskap i industrien? Ved å undersøke vareproduserende industri fremkommer virkeligheten kompleks med matrise organisering, som gjør de organisatorisk ansvarsrollene ... -
How is the Leading Tobacco Firm Adjusting to the Sustainable Development Goals SDG #3 Good Health and Well-Being - Reduced Risk Products and the Public Health Potential in Norway and in England
(Master thesis, 2018)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become more important since its implementation and has gained greater attention from large corporations on a global level. The same can be said about Corporate Social Responsibility ... -
How May Fashion Retailers Incorporate Lean Management in their Supply Chains? - A Case Study of the Current Supply Chain of a Small and Medium-sized Fashion Retailer and Suggestion of a Framework for Future Lean Implementation in Supply Chain Management
(Master thesis, 2016)This thesis attempts to provide a framework for how lean management methods could be incorporated in the supply chains of fashion retailers by reviewing relevant literature, development of a theoretical framework and ...