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...

BigTech Mobile Payment Adoption in the Netherlands: Performance over Trust?

The broad goal of this thesis is to explore what is currently motivating consumers to adopt BigTech mobile payment services in the Netherlands. The term BigTech refers to a collection of the largest and most dominant companies in the IT industry, including Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon, among others. The BigTechs have been leveraging their...

Brand identity of business-to-business start-ups and its association with brand relevance: Graduation project MSc Management of Technology

One of the biggest challenges start-ups encounter is establishing themselves within the market. A widely recognized contributing factor to increasing chances of outrunning competition, is the implementation of a branding strategy with the purpose of creating a strong brand identity. Whether investing in developing a brand identity is profitable,...

Business Models Dynamics for Dutch Technology-Based Startups: A Proposed Framework to Overcome Critical Junctures

Technology-based startups entail creating and developing sustainable value by capitalizing and commercializing new technologies, which accelerates the growth of the startups and promotes economic sustainability. Unlike new technology developed in commercial firms, technology-based startups go through a process of transformation from a non...

Data Marketplace Aggregator: a study towards designing Aggregator Business Models for data marketplaces

The benefit of secondary use of data leads to the belief that data can be monetized through exchanging and trading between businesses. Many new data marketplaces emerge from this, resulting in the heterogeneity of the data marketplace that leads to market fragmentation in the industry. The aggregator business model can offer various values to...

VC valuation and multiples: an exploration of comparable analysis of software start-ups

This master thesis seeks to better understand the investment valuation procedure followed by software venture capitalists (VC) in the European context. I explain how VCs perform fair value estimations of software start-ups with the emerging comparable analysis technique. Furthermore, this study examines the relative importance of start-up...

Investigation of crystallographic disorientation topology in simulation of rolling textures with the ALAMEL model

The crystallographic texture of a material has a direct impact on its mechanical and functional properties. As a result, texture control is an imperative part of manufacturing processes, especially those involving plastic deformation, such as rolling, which significantly impact crystallographic texture. The exact mechanisms and underlying causes...

Exploring the impact of the sudden shift to fully working remote due to COVID-19 on the productivity of employees of an SME: A case study in a technological start-up environment: Binkies 3D

COVID-19 has affected many economies all over the world. Due to COVID-19 employees worldwide are forced to completely work from home suddenly. There is not much literature yet on the effects of this sudden shift on productivity. This report aims to find the factors that influence productivity most while working remotely. An in-depth single case...

A device mimicking the features of a human chest such as breathing, warmth and skin-feel, designed and developed for inconsolable-crying babies: Evaluation through mechanical design, prototyping and human research experiments

Colic affects millions of infants worldwide annually. This presents a mild to severe discomfort in babies, resulting in inconsolable crying for an unusually long period of time. Such crying impacts negatively not only the baby (disturbing the sleeping pattern) but also the parents (sleep deprivation, depression). The current solutions usually...

The role of incubators and regional factors influencing the location decision of academic spin-offs: An exploratory study in Delft and Wageningen

The recent years have witnessed university business incubators being major contributors to regional development by supporting and nurturing academic spin-offs, and fostering innovation. However, with the academic spin-offs scaling up, they decide to exit the incubator and sometimes even migrate to another city or region. This study recognizes...

Improvement of digital service platform business models to enter new markets: A case study analysis of digital service platforms in the have it done professional paint industry

AkzoNobel wants to explore new business models to anticipate on the ever-changing market needs of customers by integrated digital service platforms in their business. AkzoNobel invested in a new Joint Venture business entity Zervices (ZRVCS) to develop a service platform for the Have It Done paint service. The first market entry selected by this...

A Corporate Venturing Unit at EVIS: A MSc-thesis Research in External Corporate Venturing Objectives and crucial Factors for a Corporate Venturing Unit engaged in external Corporate Venturing

Corporate Venturing, is a recurrently researched mechanism for corporates to stay innovative. However, the difficulty of establishing a Corporate Venturing Unit, becomes apparent in the literature. ENGIE Ventures and Integrated Solutions (EVIS) also resorts to external CV activities, in order to cope with the pace of technological innovations in...

Organizational Readiness for Machine Learning: Exploring the key readiness factors for business adoption of machine learning

Demand for machine learning is ever-growing in today’s business. Situated at the convergence point of big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning allows companies not only to unlock hidden insights from the data deluge but also to fundamentally revolutionize their products and services. Recognizing the opportunities, industrial...

Factors influencing the information sharing arrangements: An empirical study of their implementation between private companies and their banking partners in Colombia

Companies that establish relationships with other organizations, submerge in a process of decision making in terms of the agreements related to information sharing that should be held between them and their allies, customers or providers. The involved organizations, in the information sharing arrangements, have to make a determination toward the...

ETA prediction: Predicting the ETA of a container vessel based on route identification using AIS data

Container vessels arriving in a port before or after their scheduled time can cause problems in the container terminal planning and planning of hinterland transportation. This in turn leads to an increase of the costs in the supply chain. Vessels communicate their Estimated Time of Arrival via Automatic Idetification System(AIS) data to the port...

Explaining Technology Dominance in the Standards Battle between Battery Electric Vehicles and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles by Means of Using the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Tool Known as the Best Worst Method

During the last decade, the transportation market has experienced a remarkable transformation. Unprecedented technological innovation and an increasing concern about pollution and climate change have pushed society towards sustainable mobility solutions. Among these, the main current options for personal transportation are battery and hydrogen...

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...