Samenvatting Klimaatverandering is een belangrijk topic, waar veel overheden en bedrijven actief mee bezig zijn. Nederland streeft ernaar om in 2050 een volledig circulaire economie te hebben en 95% minder CO2 uit te stoten ten opzichte van 1990. Rijkswaterstaat wil hierin vooruitlopen en al in 2030 …

In het BBI-JU-project LIBBIO hebben instellingen in heel Europa onderzoek gedaan naar de ideale groeiomstandigheden voor de Andeslupine in Europa. De Andes-lupine kan over het hele continent worden gekweekt. Voortgezet onderzoek verbeterde de opbrengst van het gewas en de weerstand tegen ziekten. Hoe …

In the BBI-JU project LIBBIO, institutions across Europe researched the development of the ideal Andean Lupin variant. Successful breeding programmes resulted in the variant COTOPAXI, which received European Breeder’s Rights within five years. Learn more about how this was achieved in this video.

In het BBI-JU-project LIBBIO hebben instellingen in heel Europa onderzoek gedaan naar de ontwikkeling van de ideale variant van de Andes-lupin. Succesvolle kweekprogramma's resulteerden in de variant COTOPAXI, die binnen vijf jaar Europees kwekersrecht kreeg. Lees meer over hoe dit is bereikt in deze …

Energy usage is a fundamental property of injection molding machines. The development of these machines is accompanied by two contradictory objectives. On the one hand, a producer wants to produce as quickly as possible, cycle times must be as short as possible, and the number of products produced simultaneously …

The Dutch government and leading academics in the field of circular economy propose that “repurposing”, i.e., finding new usages for discarded material, is important to reduce resource usage. Waste collectors, municipalities and start-ups increasingly find ways to develop circular business models, aiming …

The textile trading system is based on the ‘take-make-use-dispose’ linear economic model: as high amounts of resources are utilized at low costs, the final products become waste after being used for a only short period. This creates an unbalanced system that has to change. A circular economy model can …

The textile trading system is based on the ‘take-make-use-dispose’ linear economic model: as high amounts of resources are utilized at low costs, the final products become waste after being used for a only short period. This creates an unbalanced system that has to change. A circular economy model can …

Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is constantly gaining ground, both at domestic and international level. New forms of dispute settlement with a mix of public and private components are emerging in fields where this was not the case until recent times, as some contributions to this Zoom-out have attempted …

The objective of this thesis is to identify how Circular Business Models enabled by Smart Technologies can lead to two interesting business cases for Small and Medium Tech Enterprises (SMTEs). This report is written due to the challenges the current linear economy faces from environmental changes and …