Exploring China as a source of learning for Swedish multinationals

This paper addresses what Swedish multinationals learn about changing technologies and changing markets, by having development labs in China.This paper was presented at the conference: Business strategy and innovation spaces in Asia was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, organized by IIE, 20-22 Feb 2013

Developing new capabilities fori nnovation and development: A study of Swedish firms\u27 responses to tensions in China

This paper contributes by exploring China as an emerging market that represents Schumpeterian environment, and particularly on how that environment may put pressure on companies to change their firm capabilities. The paper will particularly focus upon the evolution of firm capabilities for innovation and development. The firms studied all have a long-term engagement in the Chinese market. All firms are in industry code 70000/100/200/300 , they are foreign multi-nationals, headquartered now or previously in Sweden, and with significantly increasing activity and market share in China. The research methodology is based upon interviews with informed experts, who have worked for many years for these companies, including in China. Moreover, the activities of these MNCs in China have intensified over the years, from production to more development and research activities

Surface modification of PM gearlever

A novel manufacturing concept for a gearlever has been evaluated by manufacturing of test components of two materials. Iron-based powders were used, and pressing and sintering was followed by a few different variants of hardening and surface densification. The components have been evaluated by means of component function testing, component fatigue testing, microstructure characterization, hardness measurements and residual stress determination. The gearlever is found to perform well in the function testing and shows also good fatigue properties that well match the demands for the intended application. The porosity in the sintered material is inhomogeneous, and some compaction-induced defects were observed in the material, which thus seems not to give any significant negative impact on the sintered product performance. The results show a doubling in hardness after hardening. If the materials were shot-peened (or shot-blasted) after hardening the surface hardness increased down to a depth of approximately 0.2 mm compared to the hardened material. The case-hardening should be applied after shot-peening to obtain significant effect on surface hardness within the outermost 0.1 mm. In principle no surface densification was created if shoot-peening was performed after hardening

A 0.8 mm heterodyne facility receiver for the APEX telescope

Aims.The new APEX telescope, located on Llano Chajnantor in Northern Chile, will have high resolution spectroscopic instruments covering the wavelength region from 0.20 to 1.30 mm (210-1500 GHz). Methods.In May 2005, the first facility receiver for the band 0.79-1.07 mm (279-381 GHz) was installed together with backends providing down to 60 kHz spectral resolution. This instrument that operates in double sideband mode uses superconducting tunnel junctions (SIS) as mixing elements operating at 4 K to achieve close to quantum-limited noise performances. The receiver is cooled by a closed-cycle cooling machine that allows continuous operation. The receiver design minimizes moving parts and is fully operated by remote to improve its reliability and the ease of use. Results.The double sideband (DSB) receiver temperatures are in the range 50-70 K, which typically results in a DSB system noise temperature of about 100 K in excellent weather conditions and between 100-200 K in good weather conditions

Tissue-based map of the human proteome

Resolving the molecular details of proteome variation in the different tissues and organs of the human body will greatly increase our knowledge of human biology and disease. Here, we present a map of the human tissue proteome based on an integrated omics approach that involves quantitative transcriptomics at the tissue and organ level, combined with tissue microarray-based immunohistochemistry, to achieve spatial localization of proteins down to the single-cell level. Our tissue-based analysis detected more than 90% of the putative protein-coding genes.We used this approach to explore the human secretome, the membrane proteome, the druggable proteome, the cancer proteome, and the metabolic functions in 32 different tissues and organs. All the data are integrated in an interactive Web-based database that allows exploration of individual proteins, as well as navigation of global expression patterns, in all major tissues and organs in the human body

Tissue-based map of the human proteome

Resolving the molecular details of proteome variation in the different tissues and organs of the human body will greatly increase our knowledge of human biology and disease. Here, we present a map of the human tissue proteome based on an integrated omics approach that involves quantitative transcriptomics at the tissue and organ level, combined with tissue microarray-based immunohistochemistry, to achieve spatial localization of proteins down to the single-cell level. Our tissue-based analysis detected more than 90% of the putative protein-coding genes.We used this approach to explore the human secretome, the membrane proteome, the druggable proteome, the cancer proteome, and the metabolic functions in 32 different tissues and organs. All the data are integrated in an interactive Web-based database that allows exploration of individual proteins, as well as navigation of global expression patterns, in all major tissues and organs in the human body