Some sectors emphasize their tradition, such as beer, whiskey and wine, and other sectors pride themselves on continuous innovation in order to achieve ever better quality, such as detergent producers and (high) tech. Needless to say, both sides of the marketing strategy spectrum - tradition or continuous …

This report is intended to collect, present, and evaluate the various solutions applied in individual operational pilots for their (upscaling and transnational transfer) potential, in terms of opportunities and barriers, over the short and long(er)-term. This is done by identifying the main characteristics …

The Nieuw Statendam is equipped with a program called ENIRAM. This program calculates the optimal engine configuration and load expressed in revolutions per minute of the propellers. The issue with this program is that it only looks at the main power plants and does not take the waste heat recovery system …

This advisory report has been written for the project Flavours of Málaga, which is aimed at women that live in the neighbourhoods of Málaga to improve their socio-economic position with the help of gastronomic heritage tourism. The second phase (Flavours of Málaga II) has recently started and focusses …

Price transparency is an essential precondition to realize careless cross-border charging in Europe. Unfortunately, in many countries price transparency in EV charging is problematic. A lack of transparency can lead to unnecessary high costs of charging for EV drivers and makes it difficult to compare …

This thesis investigates the interplay between displacement and marriage practices among Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Processes of national identification, belonging, and citizenship rights impact marriage practices, and do so differently depending on the particular displacement history …

Our planet’s ecology and society are on a collision course, which manifests due to a contradiction in the assumptions of unlimited material growth fueling the linear economic paradigm. Our closed planetary ecosystem imposes confined amounts of space and a finite extent of resources upon its inhabitants. …

Background: Malnutrition is an important risk factor for adverse postoperative outcomes such as infection and delayed wound healing, often resulting in longer hospital stay and higher readmission and mortality rates. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between the risk for malnutrition …

T.b.v. RVO is een samenvatting geschreven van het onderzoeksproject Solar Miles. Dit project betreft deelauto’s die worden opgeladen met zonne-energie. Het doel is een innovatief serviceconcept te ontwikkelen dat gebruikers van deelauto’s motiveert zodanig gebruik te maken van deze auto’s dat inzet van …

Keynote given during the 5th International Conference on New Business Models on the topic of sustainable, inclusive and circular new business models. New business models have been widely touted for their promise of sustainability. However, conceptual approaches to new business models by and large fail …