Improving the innovation process in a large corporate: A case study for Renewi

The world is facing a climate crisis. We are polluting the earth with high CO2 emissions and waste. In addition to this, the human population is ever-growing. This results in a demand for more products, which will create even more waste. Products that are predominantly made of raw materials. Meanwhile, the global economy is only 7,2% circular...

Improving Hombli's ability to Innovate by Design

This report describes the results of a graduation project, which was completed at Hombli, a brand of Avanca International B.V. Hombli offers smart home products and has the ambition to become a leader in this domain. In order to achieve that the company wants to create Intellectual Property in the future and have a solid brand. Hombli has two...

The future roadmap of an artificial intelligent eye tracking platform

This thesis was performed in assignment of Alpha.One for their new eye tracking prediction platform expoze.io. The project started of with the brief; What does the future of expoze.io hold? This indicates the need for a future vision. In order to create a future vision the company purpose must first be researched, the reason why they exist. The...

Social Mobility Europe 2030: Presenting a framework to help upgrade the future of social mobility in Europe 2030

Mobility is becoming a crucial factor to define contemporary social life. It
 has changed the relationship between government and economy, public and private, work and life, shaping a world that promotes unconstrained movements of people, products, consumption and working subjects. The fundamental redefinition of established social, political...

Innovation in Internet of Things: Designing an innovation process for Hilti to identify and protect business-relevant ideas in the area of Internet of Things

The construction industry is undergoing a significant change driven by the emergence of new technologies. Digitalization is transforming the sector with the Internet of Things (IoT) being one of its core enablers. As a leading multinational organization that provides cutting-edge tools, technologies, software and services for the global...

Design & Innovation: The implications of embedding design within innovation processes

Companies and organisations are increasingly exposed to a market environment full of turbulence and disruption. Perry (2017), for instance, shows that only 60 companies were present in the Fortune 500 in 1955 as well as in 2017, meaning that 88% of the companies from 1955 went bankrupt, merged with (or were overtaken by) other firms or were not...

Unveiling the essence of the Knowledge Triangle

In order to overcome the innovation gap, the concept of Knowledge Triangle (KT) and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI) is gaining interest within national and European policies. It also functions as the cornerstone of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which has a prominent role in Europe’s Horizon2020 strategy to...