INTRANS - A method to analyze transitions in socio-technical systems in order to support strategic decision making at key stakeholders

Improving the logistical situation of Costa Rica: researching strategies to gain additional economic advantages

Improving the logistical situation of Costa Rica: Researching strategies to gain additional economic advantages

Commercialization of project results in research public-private partnerships

This exploratory study aims at finding influences of characteristics on commercialization of results of research and innovation projects funded by the EU. This study will help overcomer the Valley of Death, which is the troublesome transition from research to the subsequent commercialization. This study aims at two themes within FP7-NMP which...

Towards more behaviourally robust travel demand forecasts: Catering to utility maximisers and regret minimisers

Choice probabilities and related outputs of discrete choice models form a critical input to many travel demand forecasting and transport project evaluation studies. The decision rule underlying a discrete choice model describes how individuals make their decisions and thereby co-determines the choice probabilities. Uncertainty from the side of...

Random Regret Minimization for consumer choice modelling: Assessment of empirical evidence

This paper introduces to the field of marketing a regret-based discrete choice model for the analysis of multi-attribute consumer choices from multinomial choice sets. This random regret minimization model (RRM), which has two years ago been introduced in the field of transport, forms a regret-based counterpart of the canonical random utility...

Flexible labor and innovation performance: Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts have significantly higher sales of imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products (“first on the market”). High functional flexibility in “insider-outsider” labor markets enhances a firm’s new product sales, as do training efforts and highly...

Acquisitions, Divestitures and Innovation Performance in the Netherlands.

This aim of this paper is twofold. First it examines the determinants of acquisitions and divestitures of Dutch firms in the period 1996-2004. Second, it investigates the impact of acquisitions and divestitures on the firm’s innovative output performance. An econometric model is specified and estimated with Community Innovation Survey data for...

Mobility in a labour market with non-standard jobs: A panel data analysis for the Netherlands

In the last 25 years the number of flexible jobs has been expanding in most European countries. For example, in the Netherlands in 1995, about 11 per cent of workers was working in a fixed-term temporary job and about 37 per cent of workers was working in a part-time job. Seven years later, in 2002 these percentages had increased to 14 per cent...