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Aus- und Weiterbildung der Mitarbeitenden und Leitungspersonen in schulergänzenden Tagesstrukturen der Schweiz
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Innovation management in small and large companies: comparative insights from Switzerland
No full textInnovation is a key driver of growth, competitiveness, and technological progress at both micro and macro levels. Despite Switzerland's position as the world’s most innovative country, there is limited research on how innovation is managed within its businesses. This study addresses this gap and explores how small and large Swiss companies establish innovation strategies, processes, and structures to achieve organisational goals. This comparative study examines innovation management in small (10–49 employees) and large (250+ employees) Swiss companies across various industries, using qualitative semi-structured interviews with innovation leaders. Findings show that while both groups prioritize innovation, their approaches differ. Large companies rely on structured processes but often face bureaucratic barriers to radical innovation. In contrast, small firms benefit from agility and intuitive practices but may lack efficiency due to informal processes and limited evaluation. Innovation culture is easier to shape in small firms through direct leadership, where as large firms struggle to encourage risk-taking. The study suggests that large firms can enhance innovation by adopting more agile methods, while small firms could benefit from more structured planning and evaluation. This paper enriches academic understanding of innovation management by providing a qualitative comparison of small and large Swiss businesses and offers practical insights for companies and policymakers aiming to strengthen innovation capabilities
„Gute“ Beratung mit digitalen Medien?! Impulse für einen Perspektivwechsel
No full textNiedrigschwelligkeit wird vielfach als Anspruch an Beratungsangebote formuliert. Wie kann es gelingen, Beratungsprozesse so zu initiieren, dass die Schwelle für potenzielle KlientInnen und Coachees gesenkt wird? Gerade hier punktet die Beratung im digitalen Setting. Zugleich wächst die Zahl der Angebote. Welche Informationen benötigen Ratsuchende, um seriöse Beratungsangebote im Netz von weniger seriösen unterscheiden zu können? Die AG Digitalisierung und Beratung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Beratung möchte bei der Suche nach dem passenden Beratungsangebot im digitalen Raum Orientierung bieten. 14 Fragen und Antworten zeigen, was eine seriöse Beratung im digitalen Setting kennzeichnet. Diesen Perspektivwechsel können BeraterInnen zudem nutzen, um ihr eigenes digitales Angebot zu überprüfen
Abiraterone acetate fixed-dosed combinations with ibuprofen-based therapeutic eutectic and deep eutectic solvents
No full textIn recent years, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) with their outstanding solubilization properties have emerged as strong candidates for oral enabling formulations of poorly soluble drugs. This study explores the use of drug-based therapeutic DESs (THEDESs) to solubilize a poorly soluble compound with the aim of providing a fixed-dose combination of two complementary therapeutic agents. Specifically, potential anticancer effects of ibuprofen (IBU) are harnessed in a novel type of THEDES to dissolve higher amounts of abiraterone acetate (AbAc), an antitumor agent. Four IBU-based combinations were studied: 1:4 M ratio with octanoic acid (OctA), 1:5 with nonanoic acid (NonA), 1:3 with decanoic acid (DeA) or 1:2 with dodecanoic acid (DoA). Fatty acids of different chain lengths were analyzed and discussed considering surface charge densities obtained via quantum chemistry. The THEDESs listed could apparently dissolve AbAc amounts up to 1311.0 ± 125.4 mg/g in IBU:OctA THEDES, 1151.7 ± 22.2 mg/g in IBU:NonA, 1160.4 ± 33.5 mg/g in IBU:DeA, and 231.3 ± 10.7 mg/g in IBU:DoA. In vitro dissolution of the simultaneously released drugs reached 37.8 ± 9.0 % to 64.2 ± 1.0 % for IBU and 5.0 ± 3.3 % to 19.4 ± 0.1 % for AbAc. This increased to between 60.4 ± 2.8 % and 79.4 ± 5.0 % of released IBU, and 23.6 ± 1.0 % to 57.3 ± 5.8 % of released AbAc, with 20 % (w/w) Tween 80 added to the formulations. This showed the significant potential of drug-containing THEDESs as solubilizing agents for poorly soluble drugs, in the form of fixed-dose combinations of synergistic APIs
Migration, liberal power, and the politics of differential inclusion
No full textThe Handbook of Language and Mobility challenges the assumption that mobility is a new norm. It maps new developments in language and mobility scholarship, tracing how the mobility of language, people, and knowledge intersects with multiplicity, infrastructures, historicity, new political formations, and processes of world-making.
By decentering mobility, this handbook questions which processes come to be recognized as mobile, and how mobility is historically shaped, regulated, valued, and stigmatized. By recentering mobility, it explores its productive dimensions – how it sustains and aligns with celebratory ideologies of globalization, technology, and agency, creates value, and contributes to the management and legitimation of difference and inequality. Mobility here is not just about movement – it shapes time, space, subjectivities, power, and systems of accumulation
A Template Report Detection System Based on Semantic Text Similarity
No full textWhile many major scientific publishers utilise systems to detect verbatim text reuse, these tools are often architecturally limited, leaving the peer-review process vulnerable to sophisticated threats like paraphrased content and coordinated fraud among different reviewers
Level Up Your Ride: Entwicklung, Evaluation und Wirkungsmessung eines digitalen Velotrainings
No full texthttps://svi.ch/de/publikationen/level-up-your-ride-entwicklung-evaluation-15a1/https://svi.ch/de/veranstaltung/fachatgung-forschung-innovation-2025-032e
Understanding the End User - A Multi-Level Framework for Change Management in Large-Scale Enterprise System Transformations
No full textThis thesis develops a multi-level change management framework that integrates user-focused elements into a broader organizational structure. The framework is based on a qualitative case study of the SAP S/4HANA transformation at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), employing a Design Science Research approach that incorporates expert interviews, observations, and secondary data