With the introduction of research activities in higher professional education in the Dutch higher education system, the notions of ‘research’ that were previously silently agreed upon among academics in traditional universities also came under pressure. Additionally, both types of higher education actively …

Stricter environmental policies, increased energy prices and depletion of resources are forcing industries to look for bio-based and low carbon footprint products. For industries, flax is interesting resource since it is light, strong, environmental friendly and renewable. From flax plant to fiber products …

Philips strives to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation, in both advanced and emerging markets. There are major differences between these worlds, also in healthcare. This is mainly the result of the limited resources in the emerging countries and the lack of availability of …

In het boek Schools that learn (2012, p. 76) van Peter Senge staat een mooi citaat: ‘A boy of five, on the first day of kindergarten, asked his teacher, ‘When am I going to learn how to read? She said, a bit absently (for there was a lot going on), ‘Oh, that won’t happen until next year, in first grade.’ …

The main goal of this graduation assignment is to provide the client organization Vivonline with strategic advice in order to outline a better and accurate profile of their existing audience, and how to strengthen their brand resonance with the current online followers of their website. This is achieved …

At the biomedical department of the TUDelft a sensor node is designed[1]. This is an Autonomous Wireless Sensor Node(AWSN) with temperature monitoring, which is powered up wirelessly and have data transmission through backscattering. The aim of the project is to design a receiver for the AWSN and to …

Social entrepreneurship has been defined until now by borrowing insights from commercial, Schumpeterian entrepreneurship as well as a new way of looking at non-profit work (Peredo and McLean, 2006; Short et al., 2009). Inspired by the use of a competence perspective to define entrepreneurship (European …

Met dit project is het de bedoeling de lijn 44 gemoderniseerd wordt. De machine is uitgevoerd met een SAIA PCA besturing, welke compleet obsolete is, maar ook heel weinig kennis van is binnen de vestiging. De meeste kennis ligt in de SIMATIC familie pakket en wordt er gekozen om dit als standaard te …

ITRACT central platform: Building Blocks.Presentation held on June 6, 2013 in Skipton, UK.Mid term conference ITRACT. Reaching the Frontiers: Improving Connectivity in the Remoter Regions Conference, Skipton.

In this article, we explain how we envision the further interconnection of existing initiatives of online local memory collecting into a new social infrastructure, that is beneficial to the whole of Amsterdam. Three examples of local memory websites show how large districts in the East, South and West …