This report records the research project conducted within the context of the work placement for the Graduation Internship: Business Research and Advice during the fourth year of the International Business program at HZ University of Applied Sciences. The work placement panned from 05 February 2024 to …

For future generations to meet their needs, and to close the global inequality gap, we need to degrow. That is we need to reduce resource and energy consumption to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a way that reduces inequality and improves human well-being (Hickel, 2020a,b). …

The WATERMINING project aims to bring solutions to improve the circularity of water treatment and the resulting by-products of these processes. Achieving a deep understanding of the barriers potentially hindering the development of circular water solutions is crucial to design policies that enable the …

Heeft Nederland met haar enorme potentie aan windparken op zee een verdienmodel Noordzee in handen, vraagt Martien Visser zich af. Nou, vergeet het maar, stelt hij. “Onder het huidige gesternte is het een stevig verliesmodel voor Nederland.”

In deze workshop plaatsen we opslag van elektrische energie in batterijen in het grote plaatje achter alle termen en afkortingen die langs zijn gekomen in de afgelopen workshops (netcongestie, systeemintegratie, flexibiliteit, aggregator, BRP, BSP, FCR, etc…). Wat hebben we geleerd, zijn er conclusies …

The belief in progress, and with it the short sustainability of contentment has colonized the world and forms a powerful revenue model behind (technological) innovation. Under the heading of Life-Long-Learning, it got another boost in education. In this article it is argued that letting people become …

Part 2 of 4 columns on Dynamic Systems Theory. Like biological systems, psychological systems also arise from the coupling of many cyclic (oscillating) processes. For instance, over our lifespan, our bodies change and go through several attractor states. Healthy lifestyle is important, but should not …

Het project Coöperatief in Balans starte in 2021, in Coronatijd. Tineke van der Schoor, projectleider geeft in deze online meeting een uiteenzetting van het project, met als praktijkvraag: Welke mogelijkheden heeft de lokale MKB’er om aan de oplossing van de nettenproblematiek bij te dragen op een zodanige …

The aspirational luxury industry is moving beyond its current capacities. Research has indicated that the average age of the luxury consumer has gone down from 48 to 34 (Popomaronis, 2017). With an average of four devices each, the Generation Y and Z consumer want to be engaged in a seamless shopping …

The growing availability of data offers plenty of opportunities for data driven innovation of business models for SMEs like interactive media companies. However, SMEs lack the knowledge and processes to translate data into attractive propositions and design viable data-driven business models. In this …