The Future of the Dutch Environmental Testing Market

The environment is an important part of the life for most organisms, including humans. Since its quality is integral for social welfare, ensuring and maintaining a high environmental quality is essential. The environmental testing market is dedicated to the testing of the three main components of environment: soil, water, and air. Since the...

Using external data for creating competitive advantage

Addressing the mismatch: A strategy for creating adaptable office buildings and adding value for corporations

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to address the mismatch between the constant change of users’ demands and the static nature of the built environment (supply). Aim: The development of a strategy for creating adaptable office buildings, highlighting the relation between the actions proposed and the value they can deliver to the...

Are University Business Incubators Overprotective Parents?: A Knowledge as a Resource-Based Perspective on Growth of Academic Spinoffs using an Open Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Framework

University business incubators are a global rising phenomenon and have an imprint on the genetics of high technology-based academic spin-offs and are central to the triple-helix model of innovation systems for academia-industry-policy. Research focused on Regional Innovation System of Delft suggest that the high technology-based start-ups face...

Alignment of corporate real estate strategy and corporate business strategy

Business Intelligence from User Generated Content: Digging into microblog posts about new smartphones

High-tech and dynamic markets are faced with a rapidly changing environment and consumer requirements. At the same time, UGC is increasing drastically over the past years. UGC is becoming increasingly important in purchasing decisions while the business intelligence methods that leverage UGC are still in their infancy. A model that presents a...

Communicating sustainability in fashion

Since 2001 Kuyichi, a conscious fashion brand, has been on a journey to market sustainable denim. Kuyichi is interested in adding a Track & Trace (T&T) feature to their jeans. With a T&T feature the consumer can trace back important production steps and characteristics of the jeans, while being in a store. The purpose of this graduation project...

Next Batam: Fostering a resilient growth strategy. A combined transit oriented development and industrial clustering strategy, in order to create new investment opportunities and competitive advantages for the city of Batam, a Special Economic Zone affected by the global crisis.

Similar to thousands other Special Economic Zone (SEZ) cities around the world, Batam, an Indonesian city-island at the border with Singapore, was developed by the central government to attract foreign investors and develop its industrial basis. Its strategic position made it an excellent location for the Singaporean manufacturing companies, in...

Enhancing the chain cooperation among public and private stakeholders in the maritime supply chain

The motive for this graduation project is to reduce the knowledge gaps in scientific literature addressing public private cooperation among stakeholders in the maritime supply chain. The objective of the graduation project is to obtain insights how public and private stakeholders should cooperate to increase the performance within the maritime...

Enterprise Analytics Adoption Model: An exploratory study in transforming an organization towards analytical competitor

Business Intelligence- and Analytics solutions offer business users to gain a competitive advantage against their peers in the dynamic economic situation. A compelling characteristic of an enhanced BI-solution is distinguished by the adoption of advanced Analytics in business activities to obtain information more easily, to gain more insights in...

Recognize sustained competitive advantage: A comparison in the automotive industry out of an investors’ perspective

How could the ability to sustain competitive advantage of a market leader in the automotive industry over its direct competitors be measured by using publicly accessible information? As is found in the research, it seems that a good individual factor performance is not a necessary and not a sufficient condition to maintain superior financial...

Adapting company competences: A qualitative meta-analysis

The topic of company competences is approached by many theories in literature, each from its own perspective. In this thesis the focus is mainly on the competence-based view. The competence-based perspective claims that core competences are the source of sustainable competitive advantage, and are the unique capabilities which span over multiple...

How Midiator will become an established firm in the showcontrol business.

In this report I evaluate the plans of Midiator to launch the Midiator Vision. I conlcude that the competitive advantage of the product is not high enough and that the targeted segments are too small to build a sustained business from this product. Therefore I have generated new product idea's to expand the product portfolio of Midiator