?NÀsta generations ryggskydd? Àr ett examensarbete vid Innovations- och designingenjörsprogrammet pÄ Karlstads Universitet. Uppdragsgivaren Àr Stefan Ytterborn pÄ POC Sweden i Stockholm.POC Àr ett företag som satsar pÄ att utveckla ny och effektiv skyddsutrustning till alpinskidÄkare för att förhindra allvarliga skador. DÄ utrustningen och Äkstilen stÀndigt blir mer extrem mÄste Àven skyddsutrustningen utvecklas för att ge sÄ bra och smidigt skydd som möjligt.Uppdraget har gÄtt ut pÄ att ta fram en produkt eller metod som skyddar ryggen vid alpin skidÄkning. Denna problemformulering har varit vÀldigt öppen och gett en hel del spelrum vid idégenerering och produktframtagning.Examensarbetet resulterade i en produkt som skyddar ryggen mot den nuförtiden mer frekventa skadeformen, kompressionsskador.

?NÀsta generations ryggskydd? Àr ett examensarbete vid Innovations- och designingenjörsprogrammet pÄ Karlstads Universitet. Uppdragsgivaren Àr Stefan Ytterborn pÄ POC Sweden i Stockholm.POC Àr ett företag som satsar pÄ att utveckla ny och effektiv skyddsutrustning till alpinskidÄkare för att förhindra allvarliga skador. DÄ utrustningen och Äkstilen stÀndigt blir mer extrem mÄste Àven skyddsutrustningen utvecklas för att ge sÄ bra och smidigt skydd som möjligt.Uppdraget har gÄtt ut pÄ att ta fram en produkt eller metod som skyddar ryggen vid alpin skidÄkning. Denna problemformulering har varit vÀldigt öppen och gett en hel del spelrum vid idégenerering och produktframtagning.Examensarbetet resulterade i en produkt som skyddar ryggen mot den nuförtiden mer frekventa skadeformen, kompressionsskador.

The thesis focus on how organizations can improve the ability of absorbing coworkers ideas in purpose of gaining long term competitive advantage through innovations. The study was conducted at IKEA AB where a campaign to collect coworkers ideas was a big success given the quantity of ideas collected. This fact allows a comparative analysis of idea management in the shape of campaigns and in comparison, idea management in the everyday line-organization.The analysis show that fundamental factors for innovative environments such as organizational climate, culture and leadership perceives auspiciously by the respondents. However, lack of infrastructure such as systems and processes hinders coworkers ambitions to contribute with ideas.An important issue in idea management is the treatment of incentives for innovation. Results of the study show that the ?soft? incentives ?feedback, encouragement and attention have a higher impact in coworkers willingness to the contribution of ideas than for instance monetary rewards..

Innovation has been identified as one of the key factors for economic growth long ago. However, the emergence of ?knowledge century? further strengthened the role of the concept since proper management of the knowledge is essential to make the best out of the innovative capacity of the companies as well as the countries. This necessitates a balanced intellectual property rights (IPR) systems, since these rights provide the basis to solve the market failures faced by innovating firms by creating property rights over knowledge. There is an inherent dilemma between invention and diffusion.

Quick Response eller QR Àr en teknik som tillÄter snabb och pÄlitlig optisk lÀsning av information som Àr kodad i ett rutmönster. Som lÀsverktyg kan man anvÀnda lÀsare som Àr speciellt tillverkade för ÀndamÄlet och numera ocksÄ vanliga smartphones. Tekniken har i flera Är varit framgÄngsrik i vissa industriella applikationer sÄsom lagerhÄllning, men det Àr fortfarande osÀkert i vilken utstrÀckning den ocksÄ kan vinna insteg i vardagligt anvÀndande av smartphones. Vi har genomfört en enkÀtundersökning bland universitetsstudenter för att uppskatta hur spridd anvÀndningen av QR-koder Àr och hur denna anvÀndning ser ut. För att analysera resultatet har vi anvÀnt oss av teorin om diffusion of innovations som tillhandahÄller en modell för spridning av ny teknik inom ett sammanhang.

The essay concerns "the knowledge society", IT and the possibilities of school being changedto meet the future. The purpose was to reflect the ideas of researchers and authorities concerningwork and education in "the knowledge society" and to illuminate/shed light on theimportance of information technology in this connection, to map organizational and pedagogicalshortcomings in the current school system and the changes that can be needed, and to investigatehow these changes can affect teachers, pupils and librarians.The investigation, which was a text analysis of normative and futurist sources, was especiallydirected towards how modem information technology can influence education/teaching.The differences between researchers and authorities were most obvious in the view of theimportance of knowledge of facts and central control mechanisms for standards or grading.For the authorities, who were devoid of a thought out/carefully prepared and consequent viewof knowledge and by that also of pedagogics, the information technique was the foremostcause of a change in pedagogy. The researchers also perceived the possibilities of IT, butemphasized the importance of pedagogical innovations irrespective of the technology.

How do we match our education with the needs of the construction line of business and the requirementsof the Swedish National Agency for education? Is there something that we have to change?In this study I have asked our former students about their opinion of our education and I have also asked them to give me their view on what a good teacher is like. I have been able to benefit a lot from their answers in my efforts to be that good teacher. This survey took place at Facebook.The answers showed that we carry on a piece of solid workmanship. But you can always improve, try harder.

An industry in distress was the breeding ground for a noted pricing strategy, labeled name-your-price. The industry was the music industry and the pricing strategy bears reminiscence of how medieval buskers earned their living during the dark ages; by letting the customers decide how much the good was worth, embodied by a thrown coin into a hat or similar collector. Translated into the contemporary corporate environment of today, where technical innovations provides access to the intellectual property for free, a few mighty economic actors have once again turned to the strategy were it all started; letting the customer set the price. The hat has been replaced by a box for your credit card number and the live music by a MP3 file, but the similarity is striking. The business model have been applied in other industries as well with various levels of success, thus the purpose of this thesis is to set up a framework for where the name-your-price strategy is applicable.

How do we match our education with the needs of the construction line of business and the requirementsof the Swedish National Agency for education? Is there something that we have to change?In this study I have asked our former students about their opinion of our education and I have also asked them to give me their view on what a good teacher is like. I have been able to benefit a lot from their answers in my efforts to be that good teacher. This survey took place at Facebook.The answers showed that we carry on a piece of solid workmanship. But you can always improve, try harder.

The aim of our bachelor thesis was to study how the personnel incharge of the mobile websites at two University Libraries and thestudents at those Universities viewed the mobile websites, and iftheir views in any way differed.Our research questions were:Why have the examined Libraries chosen to offer mobilewebsites?How do the students at the examined Universities experience anduse respective mobile website?Are there differences between the staff?s intentions with themobile websites and how they are used and experienced by thestudents, and how could they be explained?Semistructured interviews were conducted with six staff membersresponsible for the mobile websites and eleven students that hadexperience in using these. The theoretical framework for thisthesis consists of Klasson?s three models for University Librarianspersonas, and the parts of Rogers theory about diffusion ofinnovations that concerns the attributes of innovations and thecommunication channels.The result of the study indicates that there are some differencesabout how the students use and experience the mobile websitesand the staffs intentions for them. The students required contentwhich the staff had discarded.

De senaste Ären har grafikkorten genomgÄtt en omvandling frÄn renderingsenheter till att klara av generella berÀkningar, likt en vanlig processor. Med hjÀlp av sprÄk som OpenCL blir grafikkorten kraftfulla enheter som gÄr att anvÀnda effektivt vid stora berÀkningar. MÄlet med detta examensarbete var att visa krypteringsalgoritmer som passar bra att accelerera med OpenCL pÄ grafikkort. Ytterligare mÄl var att visa att programmet inte behöver omfattande omskrivning för att fungera i OpenCL. TvÄ krypteringsalgoritmer portades för att kunna köras pÄ grafikkorten.

Titel: Politik i sociala medier - En studie om hur politiskaungdomsförbund anvĂ€nder sociala medier.Författare: Susanne Lundström och Anna-Lotta OhlĂ©nHandledare: Lars PalmExaminator: Ulrika SjöbergUtbildningssĂ€te: Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektion HĂ€lsa och SamhĂ€lleKurs: Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 61-90 hpDelkurs: C-uppsats, 15 hpÅr: 2009Syfte: Att förstĂ„ hur politiska ungdomsförbund anvĂ€nder sigav sociala medier.Teori: Dagordningsteorin, TvĂ„stegshypotesen,Diffusion of innovations.Metod: Som kunskapsteoretisk utgĂ„ngspunkt anvĂ€nds ett explorativt förhĂ„llningssĂ€tt. Metoderna har utgjorts av intervjuer samt innehĂ„llsanalys av webbplatser.Resultat: Sociala medier Ă€r och kommer med största sannolikhetatt förbli en viktig del av ungdomsförbundens arbete.Dock behövs en mer strategisk planering kring deras anvĂ€ndning. Utvecklingspotentialen hos sociala medier Ă€rstor. Det personliga mötet Ă€r stort och ökad anvĂ€ndningav sociala medier hĂ€nger ihop med en ökad anvĂ€ndningav just personliga möten.Nyckelord: Sociala medier, politiska ungdomsförbund,opinionsbildning, communitys, medlemsrekrytering..

The spread of digital photography has created major changes in the previously stable Swedish photofinishing market. We investigate how companies act to survive in the face of technological change, through our research question: What strategies have actors in the photofinishing business chosen during the changeover from analog to digital photofinishing? Using a deductive method, we have conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 actors in the photofinishing business. Innovation management studies innovation from a number of perspectives, describing effects of innovations on the competitive ability of established actors, and on the value of their resources. The companies were not prepared for the speed of the change.

All around the world more and more people move from rural areas to live in the cities. Because of this, the urban areas have become an important part in the debate about the effects on the environment and sustainability. In many countries word wide initiatives have been taken to build sustainable cities and eco cities, the Stockholm Royal Seaport is one example. The vision for the district is to become a world class sustainable city based on the three dimensions of sustainable development: social, economic and ecologic. The municipality of Stockholm has set requirements for the buildings? energy usage, emissions and amount of waste generated during the building process.

Poorly maintained forges are a common sight in the province of GĂ€strikland. Because of their changed appearance, possible move from the origin location and poor items related knowledge they will rarely qualify for the range of funds available through LĂ€nsstyrelsen. Therefore this study deals with the problems associated with the forges in southern GĂ€strikland, i.e. Hedesunda and ÖsterfĂ€rnebo parishes.The aim of the study is to increase the items related knowledge of forges and perhaps form the basis for restoration projects in the area. Eleven forges have been examined and the changes they have undergone have been highlighted.A forge was erected on the farm and was used for the households needs such as producing and repairing tools.