Much research on SMEs is aimed at researching SMEs after the fact that they have become SMEs. However all SMEs as well as larger companies start as an idea in the head or heads of one or many persons - the prospective entrepreneurs. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how SMEs can be created by transforming ideas into real companies. More specifically we will investigate if and how Univers

Popular Abstract in Swedish Kunskapsarbete framställs ofta som något som präglas av dolskhet eller oklarhet: produkten som säljs är oklar, resultatet är oklart och även själva arbetsprocesserna framställs ofta som oklara. Detta påverkar i sin tur den styrning som man kan förvänta sig i kunskapsintensiv verksamhet: en styrning som ofta handlar om personalen mer än om arbetet. I denna studie problemKnowledge work is often portrayed as hidden or ambiguous: an ambiguous product is sold, ambiguous results are delivered, and work processes are ambiguous. This in turn affects the type of management expected in knowledge-intensive organisations, where emphasis is on managing people rather than work. In this study, the organisation of knowledge work is discussed and problematized through analysis o

This paper focuses on characteristics of out-of-school activities in Sweden and how they have been institutionally changed. In Sweden, childcare is now regarded as a part of life-long education and understood in a context of children’s rights, rather than parents’ rights. Sweden has experienced massive reforms of childcare. One of the major reforms is the integration of childcare and education.Amo

Analytical Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) models are often attractive due to their low complexity when analyzing possibilities and limitations in the system. In this paper we outline a a possible dual link extension of an analytical MIMO channel model and investigate its suitability based on measurements of a dual link MIMO scenario. The extension is based on the correlation matrix distance

Commitment to involuntary care is a multistage process comprising many different aspects; legal, psychological, medical, social and ethical among others (Schottenfeld,1989; Klag, O’Callaghan & Creed, 2005; Kleinig, 2004). It can also be analyzed from the perspective of a continuum starting from the report to the legal and social authorities, the investigations on whether to commit or not, the

In this paper a methodological approach for the analysis of nonstationary heart rate variability (HRV) signals using time-varying frequency bands based on respiratory frequency is presented. Spectral analysis of HRV is accomplished by means of the Smoothed Pseudo Wigner Ville distribution. Different approaches to the definition of the low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) bands are considered

Utifrån ett tjugotal intervjuer med tjänstemän, politiker och näringslivsrepresentanter tecknar författaren en bild av den regionala utvecklingen i Kalmar och Skåne. Rapportens syfte är att identifiera debatten och resonemangen kring försöksregionerna, på nationell, regional och i viss mån kommunal nivå. Två teser drivs. För det första undersöks om det finns ett demokratiskt underskott samt tjänst