All projects from the School of Management and Law
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ProdUse – Closing the gap between model-based energy scenarios and its potential users to support evidence-based decision-making for the transformation of the Swiss energy system
Model-based energy scenarios can guide decision-making under considerable uncertainty by conceptualizing multiple pathways and assessing associated trade-offs. Although energy transitions require various actors to make long-term and resource-intensive decisions with low margins of error, empirical evidence of how ...
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The Economic Reconstruction of Belarus
The economic performance of Belarus has been unimpressive ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, due mainly to the country’s lack of serious structural reforms. This study examines the consequences of this benign neglect should a democratic transition occur and attempts to understand the assistance that may be ...
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Visibility of soft skills in the agile organization
The idea is to create a toolkit/cockpit to make soft skills continuously visible. Such a tool could help teams identify their collaborative skills to drive optimization and innovation simultaneously. Especially in agile transformation processes and new work situations, soft skills play a crucial but often ...
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Prognostic Scoring of Innovations in Green-Tech patent clusters using Natural Language Processing
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Tele-Assessment: Leveraging Deep Learning to Assess Upper Limb Kinematics after Stroke with Off-the-shelf Webcams
We are developing and validating a camera-based compensation classifier ("3C") for tele-neurorehabilitation to distinguish normal arm movements from those with compensation. The algorithm can be used with a webcam alone or in combination with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). This method improves ...
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Green!Tea – Prospective life cycle assessment of agrivoltaics in the tea sector
Agrivoltaics (APV) is a promising approach to produce renewable electricity and agricultural goods on the same piece of land. It therefore contributes to defusing land-use conflicts. Besides electricity production, APV creates favorable microclimates with a reduced dependency on irrigation and mineral fertilizers. ...
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Sustainable Lending
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Flexible Learning Research
In 2014, the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) launched FLEX, a blended learning format that offers students more flexibility in when and where they want to learn. FLEX reduces classroom learning time by about half and provides a digital learning environment for ...
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Serious game for participative land use planning in São Tomé and Principe
The project addresses land use planning of an island nation in the context of climate change, economic use of natural resources, and ecosystem conservation and protection. This project will develop and test a serious game for participatory landscape planning in São Tomé and Príncipe. The goal is to: (I) understand ...
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Sleep Coach
Quality of sleep has an impact on mental and physical health and thus on general well-being. several factors that influence sleep quality exert their effect in the hours before falling asleep. Activities that promote or hinder sleep quality during this time are commonly subsumed under the term "sleep hygiene". ...
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Dark Rates in Crime
Logobject is interested in addressing the question: for every illegal incident detected, how many illegal incidents are left undetected? The research partners at ZHAW develop a novel statistical method to estimate the dark rate of illegal activity. Logobject will use this method to provide their customers with ...
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Employing Natural Language Processing to identify inconsistencies in companies’ non-financial communication
NLP &ML tools for Swiss asset managers and owners for identifying inconsistencies in companies’ financial and non-financial communication
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Quantitative decision model for sustainable corporate financing
This project aims to develop a quantified and scalable decision model for sustainable corporate financing. Findings from various sub-disciplines of finance and financing practice are to be integrated into an overall model. At the same time, a validation with capital market data is to be implemented so that the model ...
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Square Kilometre Array: Mock-observations via generative deep learning
In this project we use generative deep learning methods (GANs and VAEs) to produce realistic astronomical mock-observations of numerically simulated astrophysical objects, as they will be obseved by the Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA). This project contributes to the Swiss-wide activities for SKA of the SKACH ...
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Tech4SDG – Guiding Swiss Asset Managers towards High-Impact SMEs
High-impact, social SMEs remain broadly unknown to impact investors and asset managers due to limited information and identification problems. To overcome the asymmetry of information and provide reliable guidance to Swiss asset managers, we aim to create an automated big data platform for the identification, ...
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Energy Startup Day
The Energy and Cleantech Startup Day is a yearly event where startups and pre-startups in the energy and cleantech sector can explore cooperation potential with established companies and public institutions (technology companies, utilities, municipalities) as well as energy researchers and initiate cooperation and ...
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How to Digitize a Textbook?
The challenge: Books are still essential as knowledge carriers and also for teaching at the ZHAW. Nevertheless, digitization in this area is mostly limited to administrative aspects (e.g., eBooks, databases), whereas the content potential through interactive and multimedia elements is largely neglected. The ...
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Sustainability Reporting
Sustainability in terms of ecology, social commitment and corporate governance aspects (ESG) is a highly relevant topic in practice. The scientific community is involved as a discussion partner and develops well-founded solutions for various related issues. The Institute for Financial Management, for example, is ...
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TikTok privacy behaviour of Swiss young people
The social media app TikTok is heavily used by young people worldwide and is also very popular among Swiss young people. However, the app has been criticised for its low level of data protection, prompting the app provider Bytedance to step up its efforts in this area (e.g. function restrictions for people under ...
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Collaborative Workshop Solution in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Identify relevant elements for the successful implementation of workshops in augmented and virtual reality with participants who take part decentrally in the workshop.
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Digital Companion
To increase patient adherence, the Digital Companion combines electronic medical records with a patient app to create a highly integrated system, closing the loop from one consultation to the next. Helmedica is thus gearing up against foreign competition.
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Health Technology Assessment: Medicines for Dementia due to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
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Supernodes in the dHealth Network
The dHealth Network is a decentralized blockchain based on NEM's open source technology and primarily designed for the healthcare market (specifically the pharmaceutical industry). As part of the network, the operation of a supernode will be enabled by ZHAW. Such a supernode is already used by the Blockchain Center ...
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The ZHAW Partner Guide
The challenge: External stakeholders such as industrial companies or start-ups are usually not familiar with the ZHAW's performance mandate and organizational structure. Therefore, these stakeholders often have a lack of information regarding possible forms of collaboration, available R&D and service offerings, as ...
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SWEET DeCarbCH – Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland
DeCarbCH is a research project sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s “SWEET” programme (Call 1-2020) and coordinated by the University of Geneva. The DeCarbCH project addresses the colossal challenge of decarbonisation of heating and cooling in Switzerland within three decades and it prepares the grounds ...