Towards collaborative change: connecting the textile industry: A service design vision for Byborre & The Window of Textile Opportunities

In recent years, we have become increasingly aware of the vast impact of the fast fashion and textile industry. Over the years the fashion industry has been abundantly criticised over its limited consideration of social and environmental issues and the widespread impact that these have. By now, textile creation itself has a larger carbon...

Development of a knowledge sharing game to design collaborations in a hierarchical organisation: How innovation strategies can be implemented at the working floor throughout organisations

Background: There is an increasing need for structured methods that encourage effective knowledge sharing and collaborations at the working floor to implement innovation strategies, especially in case of employer - employee relationships. <br/><br/>Objective: This research (master thesis) focused on knowledge sharing on the work floor during...

Imagination as a driving force for inter-organizational innovation: The development of a research framework

With the help of a qualitative case study and existing literature from scientific fields like social sciences, psychology, policy studies, and innovation studies a research framework was compiled for studying imagination as a driving force for innovation fueled by its social context. A try-out of this research framework suggested the result of...

Real time communication in shipbuilding: To improve the collaboration between the engineering and remote production department

This integrated master thesis presents the outcomes of a research conducted to obtain a double master degree of the masters Strategic Product Design and Science Communication. The research focusses on the communication and collaboration between the engineering and a remote production department in during the ship production phase. A...

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...

The Power of Collaboration: Redesigning the co-creation platform of Ahold

Companies are reconsidering their innovation processes and learning how to use the experiences of individuals and communities as the new basis of value creation. Although the opportunities are extensive, organizations are struggling to find the right way to adopt more collaborative processes. Also Ahold is exploring the potential of co-creation....

Open the Dialogue! Strategic tools for improving innovation management in a multi-cultural engineering environment

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...