In this book Silicon Valley expert Peter Ester describes how these 'schools of startup entrepreneurship' operate and how they empower startups. He interviewed over twenty Silicon Valley accelerators. They are analyzed in terms of mission, selection policy, technology focus, target groups, program features, …

The News Frontier is a start up that specializes in making newsgames. A newsgame is like a regular game, only the narrative is not fictional like most games. It is based on a real life event. I think it is necessary to realize that only bigger events will make it into a game, because of the time it takes …

The booming market of mobile applications has also given birth to an entirely different market, namely that of mobile app discovery. Companies try to respond to those customers who have a hard time finding useful ones between the millions of apps in the app stores. Playground, a marketing agency located …

Using a series of case studies, we show that global mindset is at the heart of global growth and opportunity for entrepreneurial ventures. We review how having an entrepreneurial mindset and international experience influence the rapidity of internationalization by discussing the entrepreneurial process …

The impact of quantified self data on Healthcare. Guest lecturer at GSMS PhD congres ‘Create your Future, Discover Talent’ Martijn de Groot (1975) is a medical biologist (MSc) with a background in teaching (MEd) and medical science (PhD). After his PhD research he has worked as a researcher, teacher …

Martin Stijnenbosch, lector Vastgoed bij het Kenniscentrum NoorderRuimte, heeft op 14 juni 2014 een presentatie gehouden voor het bestuur en de founders van de Stichting Vastgoedrapportage Groningen/Assen. Het thema waarover gesproken werd, was: Herbestemming.

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 …

Because understanding sustainability does not automatically lead to sustainable acting, we feel that additional awareness building should be necessary. Therefore a project is started in which a very old method, namely the Socratic dialogue, is borrowed from the founders and customized for the use in …

Social entrepreneurship is currently at an early stage of knowledge development, both on the European Continent, as well as internationally. To a large extent, studies originate from theory, are based on small-scale individual case studies or have identified social entrepreneurship based on an incomplete …

We examine the ways in which a hidden crisis can be exposed from a communication point of view. In which way can organisations create general awareness of a crisis and try to understand the dynamic nature of interactions? With the help of discourse analysis, we have examined the interactional achievements …