Dit boek is een pleidooi voor de erkenning van de complexiteit van de wereld waarin managers, professionals en beleidsmakers moeten opereren. De instrumenten die tot nu toe voorhanden zijn, bieden vaak te weinig soelaas en vergroten juist regelmatig de problemen. Het is tijd om nieuwe begrippen te omarmen, …

As part of the EU project TraCS3 this report is ther product of an analysis of the innovation capacity of the universitry of applied sciences Hanzehogeschool and its effects on sme's in the region Groningen

presentation on the annual Reframe conference of the initiative of the regional cooperative Westerkwartier to built new and next communities in their regional food chain

presentation on the WIREX annual congres of the EU Week of innovative Regions in which we discussed the pilots in the Northern Netherlands

This publication follows and analysis the proces in the region Westerkwartier in the Netherlands in their effort to built a whole new regionale food chain. In this report there is a remarkeble role for the knowledge instutions on vocational and applied level.

The video gives an impression of the next business models quadruple helix partners are developing in de city of Groningen and the region Westerkwartier in order to develop areas in the city of Groningen.

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

A report showing the experience and lessons learned from the knowledge workplace in Emmen established to generate and disseminate knowledge pertaining to the region. This instrument was a forerunner of the innovation workplaces being used today.