This is a business plan related to the tourism and travel industry about a new ecotourism startup that focuses on providing ecotours and cultural tours in the country of Costa Rica. The goal of this business plan is to identify potential customers, stakeholders and evaluate if the business idea can be …

Research about new possible products for RE.STUDIOS. This is a startup from Stephanie Huisman. With this business she recreates/reworks existing textiles from Nike into new interior accessories. *These products are reworked by re.studios and are not original Nike (end)products.

Aanleiding beroepsproduct De organisatie waar het beroepsproduct voor gecreëerd wordt betreft KOIOS, een snel groeiende startup gericht op de innovatie van het onderwijs. Binnen de organisatie is er geen control plan aanwezig, echter is hier wel behoefte aan. Door middel van het creëren van een control …

This paper analyses Amsterdam’s Startup-in-Residence (SiR) programme as new type of policy to engage startups in the development of urban innovation through a challenge-based public procurement of innovation (PPI) process. The programme is being mimicked by other cities and government agencies, but so …

Making design work in the field of dementia requires interdisciplinary research. However, obstacles are likely to occur when healthcare and creative researchers work together. Analyzing the startup phase of ten interdisciplinary projects in the field of dementia, overweight and loneliness we found seven …

As already stated, making progressive decisions in the current market organization is complex. In view of the exponential growth of digitalization and the related possibilities such as the modernization of service, it is crucial to be able to act completely freely. This implies, among other things, that …

Can city administrations benefit from the entrepreneurial spirit of startups, and create better urban solutions with their help? In this paper, we critically assess the interplay between startups and city administrations for city-driven innovative public procurement or “challenge-based procurement” policy, …

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, …

This thesis deals with the problem of students who do not always know how to fill in their leisure time. There is limited information on the behaviour of Dutch students in their leisure time. By researching their passion related behaviour I gained insight in the positive and negative points regarding …

In the Netherlands, there is a large amount of people who exercise and a large variety of fitness facilities to satisfy that demand therefore it is imperative to have loyal customers in order to maintain incoming revenue streams and stimulate further growth of the company, thus increase the repurchasing …