Towards Fast and Engaging Health Care Innovation by Design

This report describes a graduation project for the MSc Program Strategic Product Design. The client of this project is a University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. Due to privacy, the client is referred to as: “the Dutch UMC.” The Dutch UMC wants to become an innovating leader in health care but faces many problems during the act of...

Thermal Protection System Analysis and Sizing for Spaceplane Configurations: Preliminary design of the TPS and optimization of the insulation layer

During its lifetime a space launcher is subjected to extreme heat loads. To protect space vehicles from these heat loads and their resulting temperatures they are equipped with a Thermal Protection System (TPS). Heat loads are typically the largest during flight through the atmosphere. The research question addressed in the thesis is: how robust...

Accelerating the energy transition through corporate venturing at Dutch distribution system operators

The main research question that this research seeks to answer is: What are the factors that are perceived to be important for the performance of venturing units at Dutch distribution network operators? Factors found in the literature that impact the performance of this venturing units can be divided into three parts: factors from an...

Vleesch noch Visch

The goal of the new brand ‘Vleesch noch Visch’ is to reduce meat and fish consumption in the Netherlands. Reasons for this are the high consumption of meat, the unhealthy influences of meat on the consumer’s personal health, and the high environmental impact of the bio industry. The target group for this new brand are those who want to eat more...