The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question: Is the present venture capital firm IC-consideration satisfactory when evaluating investment opportunities? The study is conducted with a deductive approach where a qualitative method is used to find the answer of our purpose. The research design used for this is problem analysis, where we have analyzed the views of a number of respondents thro

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) elements – human capital, market capital, process capital and renewal capital – and innovation system models (ISMs), on a national level, to determine if specific IC elements have a higher degree of influence in supporting economic competitiveness, and if both IC and ISM mutually influence and reinforce one another. Thr

Ämnet jag vill skriva om och undersöka är hur renovering av miljonprogrammet ser ut ur energisynpunkt. Hur energieffektiviserar man i ett fuktsäkert perspektiv(gällande bl.a VVS-system, el, fönster, väggar, grund, tak, fuktspärr m.m.)? Jag hade tänkt göra energianalyser mha Arkitekt- och Konstruktionshandlingarna för loftgångshusen innan och efter ombyggnad, och se över köldbryggor. Jag kommer äve

Hogia is a development company in the software industry. One of the products they deliver is a web-based portal for the accounting and auditing industry. This portal is a platform for agencies linking communication with their customers. The portal today lacks the ability of notifying customers, for instance via email, when a new event that concerns the customer has been added. This could for examp

This research was inspired from two of the European Union’s development policies: the cluster-approach with the goal of economic growth as well as the cohesion policy aiming for a divergence among the European regions. The paper tries to deal with one of the key-concepts of this policy by looking at the spatial patterns of the knowledge flow from a case study of the Scania life science, to see if

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) rates 28 countries according to best practice performance in areas of migration policies, placing Canada in fifth place and France in the eleventh position. This study seeks to develop and further the MIPEX framework in an economic context, through an examination of labour market integration, labour market integration and public attitudes towards immigr

Seven women with obesity were treated with CBT based strategies for weight loss and weight loss maintenance respectively. Methods included psychological strategies for weight loss developed by Judith Beck. The intervention consisted of ten group sessions. Results were measured by differences in percentage weight loss and BMI, and scores obtained through TFEQ-21 (Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire).

The following paper aims to assess Mongolia’s recent decision to engage in its first issue of sovereign bonds, announced for the fall of 2010. To this end, both a qualitative and a quantitative analysis of the bond characteristics and implications were conducted. The comparative country analysis provides insight into previous activities on the sovereign bond market, and helps estimate the expected

In a social environment, web 2.0 technologies offer significant benefits to enterprises willing to integrate the technology into their business. The most socio-technological systems which have gained much more attention and generated most interest from companies in recent years are blogs, social networking and wikis. However, web 2.0 technologies provide opportunities for companies that are able t

The aim of this paper is to characterize the daily price fundamentals of European Union Allowances (EUAs) traded in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) during the period September 2005 - February 2010. We use GARCH model in order to account for changes in volatility. We split our analysis into two periods according to the two phases of the ETS. We disregard the period 02.04.2007 – 11.08.2008, wh

The purpose of this study was to investigate three aspects of asexuality. This was achieved through conducting six interviews with self identified asexuals, an observation on a meeting for asexuals, an analysis of what functions the two organisations for asexuals, Nätverket Asexuell and AVEN have, and a content analysis concerning how people talk about a lack of sexual lust on the internet. The co

”Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, therefore Islam is… - the view of Islam and Muslims in the student organization Credo Lund” is an inductive, quantitative interview-study. The purpose of the study is to investigate how a person, convinced of Christianity‟s exclusivity when it comes to salvation, relates to and talks about Islam and Muslims. The material consists of interviews with four m

This paper examines how different variables affect the ticket price, using three different hypotheses. The first is how price is affected by time between ticket purchase and retirement. The second hypothesis tests the price changes in relation to the distance between destinations and the third hypothesis is testing whether competition has any role in the various cities. The various hypotheses are

This paper deals with the disputable issue of the existence of Malthus’ Preventive Check in Chinese population. With the help of a newly established historical database (Demographic Database of Colonial Taiwan, DDCT), which currently including the individual level data regarding to the socio-demographic backgrounds of the registered population in fifteen townships in North and Western Taiwan, we t

This paper indentifies the factors that affect the childbearing behaviors for marriage immigrants in Taiwan during 1987 to 2003, measured by individual level data for 87, 798 observations obtained from QLSFS (Quasi-longitudinal Study on Living Status of the Foreign Born Spouses in Taiwan). This survey contains the socio-demographic information for both immigrant women and their native husbands, wh

Vårt syfte är att undersöka om det existerar momentumeffekter på den svenska aktiemarknaden för att därefter analysera ett antal tänkbara orsaker som tidigare har lyfts fram inom forskningen kring momentum. Uppsatsens teoretiska perspektiv har för avsikt att avspegla tidigare forskning på momentum och de implikationer som existensen av momentum medför för den effektiva marknadshypotesen. Med hjälp

Purpose: To denaturalize the concept of corporate values as a necessary managerial practice to engineer culture in organization and to explore how its enactment influences power resistance interplays and the workplace construction of selves. Method: We engaged in Critical Management Studies (CMS), using an interpretative approach to our empirical material. Theoretical framework: The study is based

Studien undersöker hur företags tillväxt gällande omsättning och resultat förändras när företag går från privat till publikt ägande. Studien undersöker om det finns skillnader mellan företag noterade på de olika handelsplatserna AktieTorget, First North och NGM-Börsen. Andra variabler som testar är bransch, noteringsår, introduktionstyp och VD:s ägarandel. Studien kan inte visa någon signifikant s

The human race has for a long time contributed to an increase of the environmental problems, however in recent times they have begun to deploy measures to counter this. One of these measures is environmental classification systems, which is used in the construction- and property sector. Environmental classification systems are methods which evaluate a building's environmental performance in or

DISA is an international company in the foundry industry that has a goal of being able to monitor their 250 different casting machines worldwide. A massive amount of information can be retrieved from the machines and by evaluating this information you can get an indication of how well the machines operates. The information is stored as meassured values at the customer site but is not used any furt