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1	Adoption of the innovation system concept in Sweden / Eklund, Magnus, January 2007 (has links) Diss. Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2007.
2	Design & innovation : A study on the South Korean and Swedish views upon design in relation to innovation Kim Hansson, Anna January 2014 (has links) This thesis discusses the differences and similarities between the South Korean and the Swedish view on design in relation to innovation. It sets off introducing theories and recent studies upon the subject matter and also the closely related business discipline called "design management". The subject is then studied through analyzing and comparing of governmental actions within the field. Also the result from a brief questionnaire study has been used as basic material to find out how Swedish and Korean people look upon the subject matter. The questionnaire was carried out for this thesis exclusively and the results include answers on design-innovation-related questions from 35 Swedish and 35 Korean people. The result of the study shows that even though South Korea has a policy for innovation-related design and a governmental organ working exclusively with these questions, which Sweden has not, the countries share a lot of similarities in their approaches towards the subject. South Korea Sweden design innovation design-policy innovation-policy design management KIDP SVID VINNOVA
3	Ändhållplatsladdning av elbussar : En fallstudie av två stadsbusslinjer i Uppsala Törnqvist, Joacim January 2019 (has links) This thesis investigates the charging power and battery capacity needed for fast charging of fully electrical busses at end stations in Uppsala, Sweden. The operator, UL, wants to implement electrical busses by 2020 and a new depot for the city buses is being built with possibility to slow-charge the busses overnight. However, due to restrictions in the transmission grid the requested grid connection was denied by Vattenfall Eldistribution. Simulations in this thesis is based on the existing bus schedules for city bus route 6 and route 8 in Uppsala. The routes were selected by UL as suitable candidates for fast charging at end stations. Simulations were made with varying charging power, battery capacity and energy usage by the buses. A worst case-scenario was simulated to ensure that the solution would work even in bad weather conditions. The results show that it is possible to dimension the battery to match the current time schedule. The battery capacity needed depends on charging power, length of route and time available for charging. With 300 kW charging power, the battery capacity needed to manage the bus schedule during weekends were higher than during weekdays. Furthermore, the needed battery capacity for weekends on route 8 were significantly higher than for route 6. If the whole bus fleet would be electrified, the choice of charging technique and battery size depends on the routes and passenger capacity needed. A combination of different charging techniques may be the most efficient solutions when the whole bus fleet is considered. Elbussar snabbladdning pantograf Vinnova Spetskraft 2020 Engineering and Technology Teknik och teknologier Elektroteknik och elektronik
4	Adoption of the Innovation System Concept in Sweden Eklund, Magnus January 2007 (has links) <p>In 2001 Sweden founded the government agency of VINNOVA, named after the OECD-endorsed innovation system concept. Criticising the common assumption that countries are passive and uncritical recipients of the approaches promoted by the OECD, this dissertation tries to show that Swedish actors were in fact very active and strategic as they contributed to the national adoption of the concept.</p><p>With inspiration from conceptual history and Quentin Skinner’s analysis of the rhetorical use of concepts, this study focuses on the research funding reform process between 1995 and 2001, investigating how actors trying to defend the contested institution of sectoral research used the innovation system concept to rhetorically legitimise their project. To compare these uses with earlier ways of discussing innovation in Sweden, the innovation debate that arose in relation to the industrial crises of the 1970s and 1990s has also been studied.</p><p>It was found that the early Swedish innovation debate had paid little attention to the university sector. When <i>Research 2000</i> in 1998 proposed that researcher-dominated research councils should be given control over sectoral research funding, a coalition in favour of industrially relevant research mobilised to protect its influence over research funding. The concept was now appropriated and used to rhetorically reframe the universities as part of a system with the main function of promoting innovations. By using the concept it was also possible to draw on the legitimacy offered by the OECD and science.</p> conceptual history Quentin Skinner innovation system concept innovation thinking VINNOVA OECD Sweden research policy research funding reform Research 2000 sectoral research university autonomy industrial policy industrial crisis Economic history Ekonomisk historia
5	Adoption of the Innovation System Concept in Sweden Eklund, Magnus January 2007 (has links) In 2001 Sweden founded the government agency of VINNOVA, named after the OECD-endorsed innovation system concept. Criticising the common assumption that countries are passive and uncritical recipients of the approaches promoted by the OECD, this dissertation tries to show that Swedish actors were in fact very active and strategic as they contributed to the national adoption of the concept. With inspiration from conceptual history and Quentin Skinner’s analysis of the rhetorical use of concepts, this study focuses on the research funding reform process between 1995 and 2001, investigating how actors trying to defend the contested institution of sectoral research used the innovation system concept to rhetorically legitimise their project. To compare these uses with earlier ways of discussing innovation in Sweden, the innovation debate that arose in relation to the industrial crises of the 1970s and 1990s has also been studied. It was found that the early Swedish innovation debate had paid little attention to the university sector. When Research 2000 in 1998 proposed that researcher-dominated research councils should be given control over sectoral research funding, a coalition in favour of industrially relevant research mobilised to protect its influence over research funding. The concept was now appropriated and used to rhetorically reframe the universities as part of a system with the main function of promoting innovations. By using the concept it was also possible to draw on the legitimacy offered by the OECD and science. conceptual history Quentin Skinner innovation system concept innovation thinking VINNOVA OECD Sweden research policy research funding reform Research 2000 sectoral research university autonomy industrial policy industrial crisis Economic history Ekonomisk historia
6	Bedömning av investeringar i ny teknik på elmarknaden : Utveckling av ett indikatorsystem och praktisk applicering / A multi criteria analysis tool for evaluation of investments in new technology Arding, Karin, In de Betou, Siri January 2021 (has links) The aim of this thesis is to create a tool which quantifies qualitative measures into an indicator system. The system is created on behalf of a company which is associated with investments in new technologies on the energy market. The indicator system is to take into consideration important factors in the first part of an investment cycle, in other words, the screening phase. Qualitative measures will, in each indicator, become quantified and will together create a weighted grade on a potential investment that can help the investor decide whether or not to move forward with said investment. The aim of the thesis is also to evaluate the indicator system on current possible investment options in order to analyse and discuss how the final product will work in the investor company ́s actual context. The method consists of two main parts, a gap analysis which is conducted within the investor company and its owners and a compilation of which indicators that are of greatest importance in a screening phase according to earlier research. The main result of the study is the full indicator system which consist of four indicators: technology readiness of the potential investment, contextual analysis of the potential investment, diversity within the company and the financial burn rate of the company. When applied to current potential investments the result showed that there was negligible to moderate correlation between the indicators, which was important for the system to be validated. It was also concluded that a potential investment should exceed 60 percent of the possible maximum grade in order to pass through the screening phase. The results also showed that there were four apparent gaps, namely consensus between the involved actors, utilization rate of the organizations competencies, to enter new markets and the right competency to do so. The future potential investments of the investor company should therefore aim to fill in these gaps in order to strengthen the role of the company. If doing so while using the indicator system, the risks of choosing investment options that does not fit into the investor company ́s context, will be minimized. Indicator system Screening Multi criteria analysis gap anlaysis Technology Readiness Level Demand Readiness Level investments Indikatorsystem multikriterieanalys MKA gapanalys screening investering energimarknaden Energimyndigheten Vinnova Technology Readiness Level TRL Demand Readiness Level DRL Engineering and Technology Teknik och teknologier
7	Large-Context Question Answering with Cross-Lingual Transfer Sagen, Markus January 2021 (has links) Models based around the transformer architecture have become one of the most prominent for solving a multitude of natural language processing (NLP)tasks since its introduction in 2017. However, much research related to the transformer model has focused primarily on achieving high performance and many problems remain unsolved. Two of the most prominent currently are the lack of high performing non-English pre-trained models, and the limited number of words most trained models can incorporate for their context. Solving these problems would make NLP models more suitable for real-world applications, improving information retrieval, reading comprehension, and more. All previous research has focused on incorporating long-context for English language models. This thesis investigates the cross-lingual transferability between languages when only training for long-context in English. Training long-context models in English only could make long-context in low-resource languages, such as Swedish, more accessible since it is hard to find such data in most languages and costly to train for each language. This could become an efficient method for creating long-context models in other languages without the need for such data in all languages or pre-training from scratch. We extend the models’ context using the training scheme of the Longformer architecture and fine-tune on a question-answering task in several languages. Our evaluation could not satisfactorily confirm nor deny if transferring long-term context is possible for low-resource languages. We believe that using datasets that require long-context reasoning, such as a multilingual TriviaQAdataset, could demonstrate our hypothesis’s validity. Long-Context Multilingual Model Longformer XLM-R Longformer Long-term Context Extending Context Extend Context Large-Context Long-Context Large Context Long Context Cross-Lingual Multi-Lingual Cross Lingual Multi Lingual QA Question-Answering Question Answering Transformer model Machine Learning Transfer Learning SQuAD Memory Transfer Learning Long-Context Long Context Efficient Monolingual Multilingual QA model Language Model Huggingface BERT RoBERTa XLM-R mBERT Multilingual BERT Efficient Transformers Reformer Linformer Performer Transformer-XL Wikitext-103 TriviaQA HotpotQA WikiHopQA VINNOVA Peltarion AI LM MLM Deep Learning Natural Language Processing NLP Attention Transformers Transfer Learning Datasets Computer and Information Sciences Data- och informationsvetenskap

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