This study investigates whether a system of hub locations distributing goods across the water to the city of Amsterdam can be a potential future solution to guarantee same-day delivery to shopkeepers. A simulation model was developed to analyse the logistics performances and to optimise the number of …

Fabrication Laboratories (Fab Labs) are publicly accessible workshops offering digital manufacturing technology and electronics tools to anyone. Fab Labs continue a tradition of places for do-it-yourself (DIY) with technology for tinkering and inventing. They stand at the beginning of what has become …

Tabitha likes her work at Clean Tech Delta, but need some help to figure out what is needed to involve the new generation with young ambition professionals. A disruptive or groundbreaking idea, that incorporates all practical factors like organization, finance, stakeholders, etcetera. This could be the …

Purpose: The author sets out the basis for a new research programme designed to demonstrate that by encouraging managers of small to medium-sized businesses (SMEs [1]) to take a positive approach to social and environmental risks, embedding and operationalising their responses into their business strategy, …

Digitization pervades all economic sectors. In this research project of Avans University of Applied Science the main question was “What will be the effects of digitization on the HRM profession?” The methodological approach was threefold. A theoretical concept of digital impact on the HRM profession …

The objective of urban sustainability requires sustainable urban transformation (SUT), which is closely related to urban sustainability transitions. This paper contributes to the knowledge and discussion on these fields in two ways. First, it defines SUT as a subset of urban sustainability transitions, …

The question of how to make a city or government better by exploiting information and communication infrastructures, referred to as smart city, entails an emerging field of research. Large quantities of data are generated from these infrastructures and infusing these data into the physical infrastructure …

De afgelopen dertig jaar zijn we in Nederland actief met het ontwikkelen van energiezuinige huizen, zowel nieuwbouw als renovatie. De laatste jaren begint het serieuze vormen aan te nemen: de overheid heeft ambities uitgezet, convenanten worden afgesloten, subsidies beschikbaar gesteld en de regelgeving …

In our vision engineering students become sustainable practitioners by focusing on their learning process instead of focusing on their engineering results. By focussing on the learning process we create a learning environment in which there will be innovation because it’s permitted (or even requested) …

The case traces the story of Henk Van Houtum’s journey and his desire to turn a small, traditional, family business into a professionally-run company. In June 2011 a Dutch Private Equity company, Friesland Bank Investments (FBI), a subsidiary of the Friesland Bank, announced that it was buying a controlling …