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Niddha, V.S. (author)
Knowledge valorisation is the process of creating value from academic knowledge. Value creation from academic knowledge, especially technological research, can serve as a driver of economic growth. Therefore, improving valorisation results, i.e. value creation from academic knowledge is an issue that received a lot of attention the past years....
master thesis 2016
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Kizhakenath, A. (author)
The introduction of intelligent meters - smart meters - to the electricity infrastructure should provide the grid intelligence the ability to cope with challenges and changes; thus, it is named smart grid (Verbong et al., 2013). We have learned that the smart grid system is a complex product system because its technologies, components and...
master thesis 2016
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Kandpal, P. (author)
Role of innovation in enhancing the competitiveness and economic development of the organization, society, country and world is important. It thrives on the knowledge which is available in public and private domains. However, it is the ability to acquire, synthesize, utilize, and share and use of knowledge which can aid innovation. This thesis...
master thesis 2015
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Koerts, R. (author)
The MBI ICT policy monitor. Based on the perception of the teacher on the use of ICT
master thesis 2014
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Lee, J.Y. (author)
Feed-in tariffs (FIT) and Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) have been introduced as main support schemes to deploy wind power in major economies. Both policies involve a high cost burden to the public through either government expenditure or a surcharge on consumer electricity price, since wind is still more expensive for generation than...
master thesis 2014
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Blik, T.G. (author)
Academic spin-off firms tend to grow slowly which decreases the effectiveness of policies enhancing the knowledge based economy. The average growth of the 105 academic spin-off firms in this research is 1.2 fte per year, however the median is only 0.4 fte per year. In order to increase the speed at which academic spin-off firms grow, insight in...
master thesis 2013
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Erisman, R.M. (author)
Benefits of cloud computing to Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) seem obvious: financial savings (e.g. infrastructure savings, maintenance savings, etc.) and resource management advantage (e.g. skilled IT labor and equipment, resource flexibility, etc.). Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of cloud service model that has been acknowledged as...
master thesis 2013
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Oostdam, M.P.C. (author)
Many knowledge intensive small and medium size organizations have already implemented knowledge management tools and approaches, but often in an unstructured and intuitive fashion. This makes managing knowledge processes difficult, may hinder adoption by support workers, and reduces the effects on organizational performance. Observations at the...
master thesis 2012
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Roelse, B. (author)
master thesis 2012
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Li, Y. (author)
On March 25th 2011, the European Council passed the Euro-plus Pact in order to enhance the competitiveness of European countries especially for the four Mediterranean countries which were trapped in a sovereign-debt crisis. One of the main focuses of the Pact was to restrain the growth rate of wages to make it below the growth rate of...
master thesis 2012
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Sharma, J. (author)
Nanotechnology has drawn a substantial amount of attention from policy makers and companies all across the globe. This research-intensive field is relatively in its early stages of commercialization. A plethora of large corporations and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) exists in different industries which harness nanotechnology to develop...
master thesis 2012
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Das, M.F. (author)
The aim of this research is to find out how Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies can perform an effective and fast market research to investigate what excites consumers most in a laundry detergent product and what trade?offs are made between price and product attributes. A quantitative research method is developed for the laundry detergent...
master thesis 2012
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Ye, Q. (author)
As an extension to the research on “Open Innovation”, this thesis, based on an empirical study of university spin-offs (USOs), intends to make some contributions to the increasing understanding of “openness”, not only for micro and small size firms, but also in another context other than U.S.. Moreover, instead of analyzing from a traditional...
master thesis 2012
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Van Helvoort, R.J. (author)
master thesis 2011
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Bazylevska, O.V. (author)
Deregulations, visibility of information over Internet and globalization are widely considered to be positive things, which trigger fast pace of economic development for the modern society. However, in many cases, exactly for the same reason, they destroy competitive advantage and companies start searching for opportunities to gain it. Taking...
master thesis 2011
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Kalush, N. (author)
In spite of significant prospects for radical changes, Phase Changing Materials (PCMs) have yet to achieve high market penetration. These substances are capable of storing and releasing large amounts of heat. There are several applications for PCMs, none of which have penetrated mass markets. Energy efficient and sustainable buildings are...
master thesis 2011
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Zulkifli, R. (author)
The aim of this research is to investigate the overall package printing market and analyze it using theoretical market and technology models to find out the most likely segments that document printer manufacturers can enter and which digital technologies are the most suitable for printing packages. This study then raised two main research...
master thesis 2011
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Trevino Barbosa, S.I. (author)
The process by which radically new high-tech products are commercialized and diffused in the mass-market can be long and unpredictable. We propose a conceptual model in which managerial decisions, regarding new product introductions, are presented with their possible outcomes. We analyzed multiple case studies regarding radically new high-tech...
master thesis 2011
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Reinders, H.J. (author)
Patents are often taken as an indicator to measure innovativeness, because they are a lot easier to obtain than most others. There is a complication though, which is that patents are not a direct measure of innovativeness: the fit between patents and innovativeness is biased by differing propensities to patent. The propensity to patent was...
master thesis 2011
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Goossens, W. (author)
Nowadays companies hold increased amounts of cash (Dittmar 2008; Schauten, van Dijk and Van der Waal 2008). Literature gives two contradictory theories that may influence the valuation of these cash holdings by investors in the market. The pecking order theory predicts that managers have more information about the state of the firm than outside...
master thesis 2011
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