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2024-09-17
Dissonance in focus during the conference A Sustainable Tomorrow
With only six years left until 2030, the world is marked by war and conflict and many sustainability indicators are pointing in the wrong direction. This year’s A Sustainable Tomorrow gathered 30,000 interested individuals via 200 hubs around Scandinavia. One of those hubs was Karlstad University.
The theme this year was “dissonance” – methods and examples to bridge the gap between what we know we must do and what we actually do.
– Most of us are also guilty of some degree of ignorance, said Jerker Moodysson, Vice-Chancellor of Karlstad University. For instance, I drive more than I’m entirely comfortable with, despite knowing it’s harmful to the environment and that we must make significant changes in every possible way to avoid further environmental decline.
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2024-09-12
The American economy – does it even care about Trump and Harris?
The American presidential election will be held on 5 November. A lot is at stake, not least in terms of the American economy. Mats Ekman, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Karlstad Business School, explains the difference between the American and the Swedish economy and possible consequences depending who wins the election. Or does it even matter?
Cutting straight to the point – does it matter to the American economy who wins the presidential election in November?
– No, we cannot tell for sure. It is difficult to say since we cannot observe a world where Donald Trump won in 2020 and compare it to our world. But if politicians are competing for votes to get elected, they might have to adapt to attract voters who are still undecided, and according to several well-known models, this means that the candidates will offer more or less the same thing.
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2024-08-29
Game combines product, project, management and finance in a fun and challenging way
– Products and the market position “come to life” when you see the products from different perspectives, says John Johansson, Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School.
The game is about reaching a successful market position with the help of product development and portfolio management. The game combines product, project, management and finance in a fun and challenging way and offers an experience that students can relate to – including rather abstract phenomena like portfolio management.
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2024-08-26
International workshop on how companies can work effectively with sustainability issues
– The SASUF funded workshop was highly appreciated and offered valuable insights for the participants, says Katharina Rahnert, Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School and one of the initiators.
Katharina Rahnert, what was the purpose of the workshop?
– We wanted to raise awareness among the participants about the importance of corporate sustainability. The idea was to help them become more responsible corporate professionals in their future careers. Another goal we had was to raise awareness about cultural differences, which we hoped would give them useful insights as they enter an internationalised work environment.
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2024-08-09
Research project to advance methods in the transport sector
- An important criterion for selecting development projects for the project is that they must be collaboration projects involving several different stakeholders, says Mikael Johnson,Senior Lecturer in Business Administration at Karlstad Business School.
What is the aim of the project?
– The aim of the research project Innovation and Service Design is to create, advance and test new and established methods, tools and working methods based on service logic and which are adapted to contexts where innovation happens through collaboration. The long-term objective is to enhance the innovation skills throughout the transport sector.
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2024-08-09
Public sector innovations granted millions in funding
Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency say yes to funding for SustainGov, where Samhällsnytta at Karlstad University is one of the partners.
The decision means that SustainGov is granted around SEK 11 million in government funding per year for running the programme, which is intended to help the public sector do the right things.
– It is important for Karlstad University that we get to be a part of this long-term and strategic initiative, says Johan Quist, Managing Director of Karlstads universitet Samhällsnytta AB.
– But it is even more important for all the employees and citizens who meet each other every day in what is the core of the Swedish public sector.