When we think of the energy transition, we think of new technology that will enable us to get rid of fossil fuels. However, we are extremely energy addicted worldwide. Now, with the energy crisis, we seem to be able to turn down our heating and put on a warm sweater from one day to the next. This is …

In de accountancybranche heersen een aantal kenmerken die ervoor hebben gezorgd dat de adoptie van automatisering, digitalisering en data-analyse achterloopt. Dit heeft een aantal redenen: door de hoge werkdruk is er soms geen kans om te innoveren; de omzet is toereikend, waardoor de nut en noodzaak …

Purpose: Small and medium-sized entities (SMEs) operating in the alternative financing sector are typically heterogenous in nature making them differ greatly from traditional banks. Where traditional banks must comply with strict banking regulations, developing uniform regulations for the alternative …

Terwijl er brede overeenstemming is over de noodzaak van duurzame economische transformatie, voelen burgers, bedrijven en overheden zich steeds vaker onmachtig daadwerkelijk iets te doen. Regelgeving en rapportagesystemen helpen slechts beperkt bij de noodzakelijke verandering. Willen organisaties daadwerkelijk …

Vandaag begint de week van het economie onderwijs. Een week waarin goede bedoelingen het onderwijs overvleugelen. Volgens lector Frank Jan de Graaf is er te weinig aandacht voor de sterkten en zwakten van het huidige onderwijs. Hogescholen en universiteiten kunnen elkaar goed aanvullen door samenwerking …

One of our most distinctive powers is imagination, our capability to imagine or fantasize about possible futures. Systematic use of imagination can be a powerful method to analyze possible next steps in the present. In 2012, UNESCO coined the term Futures Literacy (plural: the future does not exist, …

Technology has always been a very distinctive feature of human existence. Technology is to humans what nature is to other organisms: our host. Man is nature, but through technology – humans came to stand against nature and its biodiversity; technology is now a global enterprise, advancing on a scale …

Despite continuous improvement, lifelong learning, and plan-do-check-act cycles, every new day the planet is a little worse off than the day before! In the first 10 months of this year alone, an area the size of the Netherlands has been deforested and twice that area has been added to desert! Technology …

Do we dare to explore the hypothesis that technology shouldn't necessarily play the main role in our human future? It's time to face this discrepancy. Technology became our faith, but it is certainly not a joyful faith. With every new "solution", comes the need for new "solutions" to mitigate the previously …

It is argued that full social accessibility has become too complicated. We don't really need to apply lifelong literacy to low-literate people. Instead, we must curb the proliferation of increasingly complex systems with double (or even triple) authorization and lots of jargon. I therefore think that …