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Uutisen oletuskuva
News 14.01.2020
What role should public organisations play in innovation activities? Forthcoming dissertation by Antti Mäenpää is looking at the role of public organisations as innovation agents. Current European regional development strategy, Smart specialisation, is suggesting that public organisations should step up their game in regional innovation activities and look for new solutions, which are based on the new use of current regional activities.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 13.12.2019
The way we produce and consume goods heavily relies on limited natural resources and produce negative side effects such as waste and pollution. In order to become future-fit, businesses need to integrate these increasing pressures and become aligned with a circular economy blueprint, in which waste is designed out and products and materials can generate additional value by being recirculated.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 02.12.2019
Customers found the quality of services outsourced to private health centres and of those provided by public-sector health centres to be homogenous, reveals a new doctoral dissertation from the University of Vaasa. However, local authorities are unable to estimate the amount of invisible costs associated with public provision of health care services or with their outsourcing.
Uutisen oletuskuva
News 07.11.2019
Wireless sensor networks are effective and low-cost solution for collecting data. According to Caner Çuhac’s doctoral thesis at the University of Vaasa, they can provide solutions such as measuring solar power in the energy research, human detection for military purposes and detecting faults in agricultural machines.