Culture and Collaboration: The eBerea case

This research has been done to explore the influence of cross-nationality preference in communication and knowledge-transfer on the emergence of collaborations in an academic research network. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions’ Individualism, Long-term orientation and Uncertainty Avoidance are proposed to affect collaboration through participants’...

Innovativeness of Innovation: A study on the effects of social institutions on innovation practices in the Westland horticulture sector

The Master's programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. The horticulture sector in the Netherlands is facing economic difficulties, which have become more severe since the crisis of 2008. The innovation strategies the growers select to stimulate their organizations, are identified...

Culture Driven Game Design Method: Adapting serious games to the players' culture

Serious games are an important tool in creating, explaining, building, deploying and evaluating solutions for complex multi-actor problems. The Indian electricity challenge is such a complex multi-actor problem which forms the content of the Indian Electricity Game. To become a success it is necessary that serious games, like the Indian...

Actor Network Development in Strategic Niche Management: Analysis in the field of Solar Energy in Kenya

Master Thesis research concerning the influence of culture on actor network development in the Strategic Niche Management context.