Getting more people on a bicycle in Cape Town is what BEN wants. Especially people who travel by car, public transport or by foot. If more people start cycling in Cape Town BEN will get a stronger position in convincing the province and get them to make Cape Town cycle-friendlier. Target BEN wants to …

The Internet is changing the way we organise work. It is shifting the requirement for what we call the ‘schedule push’ and the hierarchical organisation that it implies, and therefore it is removing the type of control that is conventionally used to match resources to tasks, and customer demand to supplies …

Metaphors are at the basis of our understanding of reality. Using the theory of metaphor developed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999) this paper analyses common metaphors used in the intellectual capital and knowledge management literatures. An analysis of key works by Davenport & Prusak (2000), Nonaka …

Verslag van een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen investeringen in ICT en de marktstructuur van een bedrijfstak. epresnteerd op een PhD worksop.

The aim of the project is to empower older workers in communication and self-regulation in work and working conditions (Houben 2002). The project is an example of a developmental approach of an age diversity policy. The large scale project started in September 2005 in different organizations: an industrial …

Two models for engineering education that may answer the needs for "Renaissance Engineers" are described in this paper. They were the outcome of an educational renewal project, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education and industrial companies. The first model (Corporate Curriculum) aims to bring Industry …

Purpose: With this project the purpose is to promote the field of physiotherapeutic amputee rehabilitation. A physiotherapeutic treatment protocol of the lower extremity amputee including a simple guidance of prosthetic adjustments is made for the benefit of physiotherapy student's, physiotherapists, …

A description of our experiences with a model for education in innovative, interdisciplinary and international engineering. (Students from different (technical) disciplines in Higher Education are placed in industry for a period of eighteen months after completing two-and-a-half year of theoretical …

The curriculum of the Electrical and Electronic Department has been changed enormously in the past decade. Fewer lessons and many more projects were introduced. Meanwhile it has become a topic at Dutch educational institutes to feel not only responsible for improvement of theoretical and practical skills, …

This paper describes a model for education in innovative engineering. The kernel of this model is, that students from different departments of the faculty of Applied Science and Technology are placed in industry for a period of eighteen months after two-and-a-half year of theoretical studies. During …