Entrepreneurial participation from the neighbourhood is the final report of a two-year action research that investigated how cooperating formal and informal parties can support small-scale entrepreneurship in the Amsterdam neighbourhoods and stimulate participation by people who have unemployment benefits. …

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have deployed various strategies in motivating businesses to source sustainably, such as the co-development and promotion of sustainability certification and direct collaboration in cross-sector partnerships (CSPs). This is an important current-day priority, given the ambitions …

This paper analyses co-creation in urban living labs through a multi-level network perspective on system innovation. We draw on the case House of Skills, a large, multi-stakeholder living lab aimed at developing a ‘skills-based’ approach towards labour market innovation within the Amsterdam Metropolitan …

This paper describes how an urban commons is established on the Amsterdam market square Plein ’40-’45, to explain how an experimental learning environment can be a living lab for improving collaborative governance arrangements. We detail how this improvement is facilitated by an experimental learning …

Many cities are facing challenges in finding an equilibrium in the use of urban consumption spaces. Urban consumption spaces comprise different sociospatial relationships, bringing together work, consumption, recreation and habitation in a delimited area within the city. This mixed character is a potential …

Deze rapportage bevat de resultaten van het onderzoek ‘5 jaar Bedrijveninvesteringszone in Nederland’,uitgevoerd door de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en Hogeschool Rotterdam in opdracht van Platform De Nieuwe Winkelstraat en Stad & Co in samenwerking met Provincie Noord-Holland. De opdracht is uitgevoerd …

In opdracht van DNWS, Stad & Co en Provincie Noord-Holland hebben de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en de Hogeschool Rotterdam een onderzoek uitgevoerd naar de BIZ (bedrijveninvesteringszone)-regeling in Nederland. Een BIZ is een afgebakend gebied op een bedrijventerrein of in een winkelgebied, waarbij stakeholders …

The workshop aims to understand how a living lab network structures contribute to system innovation. Living labs as system innovation initiatives can substantially alter established network structures. Moreover, structures can undergo alterations through subtle interventions, with impact on the overall …