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2011-05-20
The Nordic Industrial Fund has, through its initiative in the SME Forum, completed the first round of seven projects linked to the Nordic countries' innovation and enterprise policies. This report offers a short description of the projects together with results. Our objective in this undertaking has been to make a contribution to the development of innovation policies in the Nordic countries.
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2011-05-20
This publication provides you with a sample of articles that give an overview of what Intellectual Capital (IC) is and how you can use it for developing and monitring your own company’s IC.
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2011-05-20
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2011-05-20
Creating Nordic Success Stories
- Enhancing cooperation on the Nordic seed capital market
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2011-03-10
Public procurement of services is trapped in conservative ways of thinking where selection of services is mainly based on price alone. A new mind set and clear incentives for procuring, is crucial if the procurer aim to use public procurement as a tool for stimulating innovative services.
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2012-03-08
This report is a good starting point for new ideas and we hope it will generate a fruitful discussion. The steering group will after further work deliver an action orientated agenda on what the Nordic ministers of Trade and Industry should address.
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2012-05-21
If your company or organization needs a framework and ideas for turning sustainability into a competitive advantage, this publication is for you.
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2012-09-14
Healthcare regions from Denmark, Norway and Sweden participated together with innovation consultants from these countries and with Danish-Swedish MVA as the project manager. Crowdsourcing was established to channel suggestions and ideas from employees but also from industry and the public, to provide input and collective decisions on innovation projects.
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2012-09-27
Green Business Model Innovation is when a business changes part(s) of its business model and thereby captures economic value as well as reduces the ecological footprint in a life-cycle perspective.
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2012-10-16
In the light of the today’s societal challenges regarding resource scarcity and environmental degradation level, it is essential for both companies and policy makers to understand the changes that need to be addressed within business structures and value chains in order to approach green growth.
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2012-10-18
41 companies have been interviewed and business case studies written. Their business models contain in one way or another elements of green business model innovation. This business case study compendium is a compilation of all the business case studies complied during the project.
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2012-10-30
This report focuses on identifying policy initiatives that contribute to promoting the use of green business model innovation and the direct effects that policy has on enabling companies to implement it.
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2012-10-31
This guide consists of two main parts, where the first part is a step to step guide to serve as inspiration on how to get started with green business model innovation. The steps are based on best practice from the interviews conducted with the companies that took part in this study. The second part of this guide is a selection of specific tools used by some of the case companies.
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2012-11-05
This compendium includes five different parts encompassing different assessment methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative) of green business cases in the Nordic region, but also around the world.
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2012-12-06
Nordic Innovation’s results from programme for Measured and Managed Innovation (MMI) shows how 70 Nordic companies from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland work with business model innovation over a period of time from 2010-2012.
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2013-01-09
This report describes and places in context the emergent phenomenon of Innovation Communities (InnoComms).
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2013-02-12
There has been a growing recognition in recent years of the importance of innovation and growth in service sectors. Despite this acknowledgement, our understanding of innovation and, importantly, the design of innovation policy measures, are still primarily based on the analysis of manufacturing firms. There is thus a need for more knowledge about the particularity of innovation activities in services.
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2013-02-18
A modified Patent Defence Union for assisting Nordic SMEs in IP dispute resolution has been developed.