Dear colleagues, 

You are welcome to join us for the
“Brown Bag Seminar in Economics and Finance”
presented by

Thomas Post

Maastricht University

Title: Reminders to the rescue:

E-mail reminders of tax benefits increase pension savings

in a nationwide RCT in Estonia

Date: Monday, September 16
Time: 12:10-13:10
Host: Andrea Schneider

This presentation will be given on campus.

Join the seminar in room B5002 or on Zoom.

Zoom link: https://ju-se.zoom.us/j/61353561370?pwd=etPAVrQLJ59dYeOxMfkb8PE6l4D3It.1

Meeting ID: 61 353 561 370

Password: BBEFS

Please use this link to sign up for bilateral talks in room B5066.
You can find this term’s seminar program on our webpage.
 

Do you fidn it challenging to connect with other students? Do you want to get to know other students from JU? Then the Meeting Place is the place to be! You are welcome to join us to play games or just have a chat! The event will take place in Rio every other Monday.

We look forward to meeting you!

Marie Böwing-Lindström, Counsellor/CBT therapist

Emma Pavlov, Coordinator for educational support for
students with disabilities

Hani is presenting the research titled as “Environmental innovations and economic performance of innovative firms: The role of ecosystem’s public funds and firm’s integration mechanisms”.

This study investigates the relationship between environmental innovations (EIs) and the economic performance of innovative firms. It also addresses the moderating role of government financial support as an external ecosystem factor and social integration mechanisms (SIMs) as a firm capability of this relationship. Firms increasingly adopt EIs to boost competitiveness and achieve sustainability. However, previous literature shows mixed results on how EIs impact firm performance and what conditions and mechanisms hold this relationship positive. The study distinguishes between two types of environmental innovations—cleaner integrated technologies and end-of-pipe technologies— examining their respective impacts on firm’s total factor productivity (TFP) (as a technical efficiency indicator) and net sales (as a financial performance indicator). Using data from 6,843 Swedish firms from the 2018 and 2020 waves of the Community Innovation Survey, we apply hierarchical regression analysis and conduct additional robustness checks, such as the Heckman two-step model, to explore these dynamics. The findings indicate that cleaner integrated  technologies have a more substantial positive effect on firm performance compared to end-of-pipe technologies. Public financial support plays a crucial role in strengthening EIs’ effect on firm performance. However, such funds also exhibit insignificant or even strongly negative direct effects on firm performance in some cases (e.g., TFP for the former and net sales for the latter). Conversely, SIMs, despite showing a direct positive influence on performance, do not significantly moderate the relationship between EIs and economic outcomes. The study concludes that investments in cleaner technologies, combined with well-aligned external knowledge integration, are key for firms aiming to leverage environmental innovations for competitive advantage. These results have implications for both policy and business strategies concerning the deployment of public funds and the fostering of firm’s internal capabilities for managing environmental innovation.

The seminar will run in a hybrid format, you can join in room B6046 or on Zoom 

Title of the thesis: Ontology and Knowledge Graph-Based Product Data Representation for Sustainable Buildings: A Case of Data Integration and Digital Product Passport
Author of the thesis: Rahel Kebede
Third-cycle subject area: Machine Design
Faculty examiner / Opponent: Associate Professor Pieter Pauwels, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Principal supervisor: Associate Professor Peter Johansson JTH, Jönköping University

Welcome to attend the defence!

Mindfulness is about consciously and deliberately directing our attention, in the moment and without judging what we are experiencing.

The aim of this course is to learn to live in the here and now, focus more on what is going on in the moment and not dwell on what happened in the past or worry about the future. When practicing mindfulness, you will increase your attention span and your ability to concentrate on what is important to you. It will also help you cope with stress in a more helpful way. When participating in this course you will practice formal and informal mindfulness exercises both in class and between classes. You will develop new skills and cherish the tools you learn from this course your whole life.

Course runs for three Tuesday afternoons: 1 October, 8 October and 22 October 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm.

More information here: https://ju.se/student/en/service/student-health-care/courses-groups/course-mindfulness.html

Register by sending us an e-mail to studenthealthcare@ju.se

Victoria Wendel, counsellor and CBT-therapist is the instructor for this course.