The Thesis Talks

Nov 26 2020 5

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Are you about to start writing your own thesis? Are you interested in topics such as innovation and entrepreneurship? Or are you looking for inspiration, tips and inside knowledge for your next large paper? Then you came to the right place! In every episode we, Lotti and Emilie, are interviewing recent graduates about their thesis, their successes and their fuck-ups. Sit back, get on your bike, go into that bus (or whatever you are doing) and listen in! Music: Emil Thiim Berner Hansen

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S2E6 - Circular economy and creativity in the pharmaceutical industry

Nov 26 2020 39 mins

What can large corporations and start-ups learn from each other? How do you make circular economy work in the pharmaceutical industry? And how do you foster creativity in that business? These are some of the questions that Sif Bregnballe and Laura Karppinen set out to investigate in their thesis. We also touch upon their process of writing a thesis when almost exclusively mee

S2E5 - Innovation in the food industry

Nov 11 2020 26 mins

Do you know what a Food Science Park looks like? Johannes (Joe) Neft and Hedvig Henrekson have investigated how being part of such a science park influences product innovation for its tenants. We talk about the main takeaways of their thesis both content-related and personal, their insights and whether being good friends is actually beneficial for writing a thesis together.

S2E4 - Innovation in times of crisis

Oct 28 2020 38 mins

Navigating your own business during a global pandemic while writing a thesis about the consequences of said pandemic simultaneously can be... challenging. This week’s guest, Luis Xavier Mariscal, tells us all about how the process of writing his thesis actually helped him with his work in his own company. We also touch upon the struggles of splitting up with your thesis par

S2E3 - Accelerating sustainability

Oct 15 2020 40 mins

Laura Katzensteiner and Signe Dreyer Elkjær have taken the buzzword sustainability into an academically very unresearched field. In their thesis, they dealt with the question of how accelerators actually integrate sustainability into their business models. They tell us how they approached this topic, how they managed to stay productive during lockdown and how they finally designed

S2E2 - Overcoming writer's block and tight deadlines

Sep 30 2020 42 mins

Jakub Taptik and Catrine Bek are guiding us through the many ups and downs of their nail-biting thesis process. We talk about how on earth they could write an entire discussion in 24 hours, and how they managed to get a high grade when they haven't even read the entire thesis before they handed it in. Their tips will save your ass.

S2E1 - A new season

Sep 30 2020 2 mins

New hosts. New guests. New topics. Listen in to hear what The Thesis Talks is all about and what's new!

#27 The Language of Collaboration - University Entrepreneurship in Denmark

Aug 07 2020 20 mins

How can universities collaborate on innovation in a meaningful and efficient way? And how should we speak about collaboration to truly incentivize strong and active relationships? Language is one core element that frames our understanding and thus our bahavior with collaboration. The Triple Helix functioned as guiding theory to detect this language of collaboration.

#26 B2B co-creation for Banks and Fintechs

Aug 02 2020 19 mins

Despite value co-creation becoming an increasingly common practice, the knowledge of how co- creation is enabled in business-to-business contexts remains scant. Therefore, this thesis seeks to enrich the understanding of the drivers and facilitators that influence the co-creation process to inform the knowledge gap of how value co-creation is enabled. Guided by the research questio

#25 Innovation Culture in SMEs

Jul 12 2020 18 mins

This master’s thesis examines the decisive organizational factors for practising a successful innovation culture in Danish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). An extensive amount of literature on the field of innovation, organizational culture and innovation culture have been reviewed, and the relevant literature has by a deductive approach been used as a framework. A comparativ

#24 Art money, an alternative currency for people

Jul 12 2020 17 mins

Artmoney is not a currency for people interested in art, it's a currency for people interested in people. As an alternative currency, the burning question is "Why are people using the currency?" In this episode we are dissecting the value and the aim of an alternative currency such as Artmoney.