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7.11.2018
The Internet of Things is experiencing explosive growth, and will impact almost every industry. In an international IoT Rapid Protolabs project the goal is to rapidly prototype Internet of Things solutions for European small and medium size businesses.
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China as an e-commerce market is world’s biggest single market. Chinese e-commerce figures are impressive. The market has 927 million active internet users, out of which 84 % shop thru mobile device.
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12.10.2018
The new information created by the continuous changes of the markets is typically not available to everyone at the same time. Sometimes the information is available to the entrepreneur, but not to the buyers and sellers. This type of asymmetric information is a key enabler of new entrepreneurial opportunities. But how can the entrepreneur leverage this information and collect the profits?
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12.10.2018
Researchers have identified a number of cognitive properties, traits and motivational drivers shared by entrepreneurs. These qualities can be seen in individuals who identify and choose to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. This blog post focuses on the individual qualities that entrepreneurs share, and the ones that might be beneficial for their success.
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Students’ performance in educational institutes depends on many factors. These factors are classified as internal and external factors. The internal factors are based on individual psychology and external factors depend on the external factors such as educational environment, family setups, economy, and other contextual factors. In addition to all these factors, economic recession, educational financial […]
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9.5.2018
Language is a very complex hierarchical system. Ferdinand de Saussure compared language to the rules of chess. The speech (parole) in his comparison is similar to how the player chooses the moves of the chess pieces in the game. But speech itself doesn’t have that much direct impact on our working environment, but concrete body […]
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20.4.2018
This article deals with value creation through the integration of sales and marketing in business-to-business sales. With research funding from the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), five companies and four research institutions formed the DIVA project. The project sought to understand and support the business-to-business customer’s journey through the purchasing process, to […]
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13.4.2018
Internet addiction, new challenges for educational institutes and information society to encounter
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The popularity, accessibility, and affordability of the internet enables people to use it for various purposes. The effective and efficient use, however, has always been questioned by parents, teachers, and researchers. Internet Addiction (IA) become a major concern since it is on the rise, which brings many social and psychological challenges. Despite the fact, that […]
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Working life is changing radically, that is not news. Careers are diverse and divided into multiple phases. One’s ‘shelf life’ in an organisation only gets shorter. A person might have several employers at the same time. One of them might offer a job – but only if the person has their own company. That could […]
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14.3.2018
At Haaga-Helia UAS we run several software project courses, where software engineering students build software for real clients. In autumn 2017, we started a school project for building mobile learning applications for two Finnish education technology companies, Viope and Promentor Solutions. The goal was to help them expand their operations to Brazil and possibly to […]
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9.3.2018
Learning through mind and body
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Imagine you are walking outdoors. It´s bitterly cold, and there’s a fierce storming with hard rain blowing straight into your face. You can see and hear it, but the experience is most acutely felt on your skin. Our skin and the whole body have this most amazing memory. Every single experience builds up in the […]
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23.1.2018
At the Slush 2017 event in Helsinki former Formula 1 driver Mika Häkkinen gave a very impressive presentation where he explained what it meant to drive a Formula 1 racing car. He explained that it took seven years before he won his first Grand Prix, and during these years he had to fight against himself. […]
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