An urban transit zone: A permanent structure for temporary inhabitation

In developing cities across the globe, as in Addis Ababa, the number of residents is growing while the amount of good-quality housing remains low. The demand for low-income housing is rising rapidly due to the contemporary aim to eliminate the unhealthy living conditions and the influx of migrants. Without newcomers a city would not be able to...

Negative Indirect Network Effects: How can a subsidiary product create a second standard in the Microsoft Windows vs. Apple Mac OS market?

New technologies create a network of complementary producers and consumers around themselves. Researchers have been investigating the effects of such networks on end-users and called them “Network Externalities”. These network externalities are either direct or indirect. There have been no prior researches on negative and indirect consequences...

City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society: Case in Vilnius Lithuania

The graduation project is called “City, catch the time! Rediscovering socialist neighbourhoods in a new capitalist society”. The study case is Vilnius, capital of Lithuania. Focus of the project is socialist housing estates, known as microdistricts. In the beginning of the year I have stated that those housing estates constructed until 1990s in...

Strategy and Focus of the Firms: A study of their relationship in networks

This research analyzes whether there is a relationship between the strategy (entrepreneurial and market orientation) and the focus of the firms (explorative and exploitative) that determines the way in which spin-offs use their networks. The study includes data from 72 young-technology-based spin-offs within The Netherlands. The results show...