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Van Dijk, J. (author)
Over time everything will be a coffee house People are found everywhere working on their laptops; in parks and public buildings, but mostly in coffee houses. It is a place which many prefer above a regular office. Not only to become more productive, but also to become creative. Surroundings are not seen as a distraction, but used as inspiration....
master thesis 2014
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Langendijk, M. (author)
My project can be linked to the overlap between the fields of architecture and biology. The research grew out from a fascination for nature and started at the very beginning of the field of biomimetics. It is a search to intelligent solutions from nature for design problems in architecture.
master thesis 2014
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Güzel, A.V. (author)
This thesis describes my graduation project at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, which has been conducted for the Product Design Group of Philips Research in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The goal was to create a feasible and meaningful product proposal that makes use of the wireless power technology. As a result, a concept...
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Leenders, T. (author)
Founded in 2006, senz umbrellas bv is a company established by three Industrial Design students. In November that year, they launched their first product, the senz° storm umbrella. Upon their market introduction, the international media picked up their story resulting in a tremendous amount of publicity. High rates of success resulted in more...
master thesis 2014
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Yogamaya, N. (author)
Innovation is considered to be the major force in economic growth. However, the processes are extremely complex and characterized with high level of uncertainty. How can we increase our understanding about innovation process? The core of modern thinking about innovation process is to understand what factors shaping and influencing innovation....
master thesis 2014
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Kamalapurkar, A.P. (author)
We propose a new concept called the Company Innovation System in this thesis. Company Innovation System (CIS) is the network of stakeholders in a firm for the generation, adoption and use of innovation within companies. CIS is developed building on three existing state-of-the arts. Josef Schumpeter’s idea that says innovation is a process...
master thesis 2013
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Soto Camacho, G. (author)
Today, making business, and more importantly, staying in business is becoming more and more complex for companies. Organizations are aware that if they want to survive they have no longer the option of carrying on doing today what worked yesterday. Innovation seems to be the shared answer among companies for responding to the fast-changing...
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Studer, B. (author)
This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the MSc program of Strategic Product Design with the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology, executed for Spyker Cars. The brands rich heritage has been passed over, with the acquisition of the brand name, to the new founded Spyker company and its...
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Bhaskar, N. (author)
Thales, a well-known company that provides products and services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets, is a technology driven company. The usual approach to innovation within a technology driven company is to focus on the development of a technology, and once the technology is ready, find application for it in the...
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Thapa, P. (author)
Around 4 billion people are currently living below income of $3000 a year, constituting the largest and poorest socio-economic group in the world. This group of people, termed as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), can be a lucrative market for innovative companies due to its massive size when targeted with innovative products and appropriate...
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Fens, A.C.F. (author)
The development of a CSR capability maturity model to assess an organization's CSR performance, based on the actions and expectations that are given by the ISO26000 guideline. The research includes a study to view CSR as an organizational innovation, which has been established theoretically and validated through interviews. The development of...
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De Vries, P. (author)
Chard Safety BV (CS) is a company in automotive crash safety systems. The patented Deceleration Responsive vehicle-Seat (DRS) Albatross is their main concept. The seat is able to drastically reduce forces on the occupant during a crash and claims to eliminate whiplash. It could also be made lighter compared to current car seats, because of its...
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Meekes, M.R. (author)
Participation of customers in innovation supports the creation of business value. Especially if the customers and other stakeholder take part in the fuzzy front end of innovation. But how can a set-up of the project, the project scenario, best support the interaction. The result of this graduation project is the project approach for the...
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Van Dijk, P.D. (author)
The graduation project concerns the Brainport region, located in the southwest of the Netherlands, around the city of Eindhoven. The aim of the graduation project is to strengthen the position of the Brainport region in the knowledge economy. Hereby the attraction of creative and innovative companies and the stimulation of their development...
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Schrauwen, N. (author)
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...
master thesis 2012
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Nieuwenhuis, L. (author)
The design process of this graduation project is inspired on the “Model of the Product Innovation Process” (Buijs and Valkenburg, 2005). The five-stage product innovation model consists of product use, strategy formulation, design brief formulation, product development and product launch. This project covers the first four stages of the...
master thesis 2012
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Martin, J.D. (author)
In spring 2010, Zilver Innovation initiated a project called “Design The New Business” . The aim of this project was to investigate how designers and business people are working together in new ways to solve the complex problems that businesses are facing today. The outcome of the project was a documentary that included interviews from design...
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Acevedo, A. (author)
Research of context and current situation of Driessen Aerospace, an engineering company in expansion and the division Galleys Europe with the objective of finding out how can can be influenced the management of innovation, collaboration and organizational culture towards innovation in all different locations taking into account the cultural...
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De Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)
Thanh Hà is a traditional craft village in central Vietnam. For centuries the families in the village have been making terra cotta products from the local found clay. Traditionally Thanh Hà focused on making building materials for the houses of nearby H?i An, a city only two kilometers from Thanh Hà. For centuries the bricks, floor and roof...
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Fuchs, M. (author)
In the high-tech food industry the speed and rate at which organizations can introduce products into the market are critical for sustaining competitive advantage and market share. Therefore Company X wants to accelerate its time to market. Based on 7 case studies of recently finished innovation projects in COMPANY X, the relationship between...
master thesis 2012
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