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Lee, Yin-Jen (author)The thesis addresses the organizational challenges of lacking the big pictures in an early-stage startup. First, the author joined a newborn software venture as a founding product manager and observed the dynamics in his daily practice. Then, through numerous interviews with team leaders and employees, the author analyzed the data and discovered...master thesis 2021
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Iliohan, Jimmy (author)The ongoing pandemic raises questions on how the current situation paints the future context of doing work. Although a lot is still uncertain, we can say with confidence that the home workplace will preserve a prominent role. Young professionals, who are limited by space, require extra attention on the long haul. The assignment is to design a...master thesis 2020
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Halkes, Leoni (author)Crisp is an online supermarket for fresh and high-quality food. By using an app, customers can order groceries which are delivered to your house throughout the Netherlands. One of the goals for Crisp as a start-up is to grow. Crisp desires controlled growth, where their operations scale simultaneously with their customer base. The framework for...master thesis 2020
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Kemper, Martijn (author)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...master thesis 2020
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ter Haar Romenij, Jeroen (author)A significant portion of academic graduates have difficulty finding a first job after graduation. Research shows that the expectations of academic graduate job seekers and employers do not align and this graduation project confirms that job seekers and employers do not speak the same language. On the one hand, job seekers do not seem very able...master thesis 2020
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Konietzko, J.C. (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Brown, P.D. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Hultink, H.J. (author)Circular business model experiments may help firms transition towards a circular economy. Little is known about how the participants of experimentation – entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, innovation managers – develop and test their assumptions during the experimentation process to achieve more circular outcomes. Using a design-science approach,...journal article 2020
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Marsaglia, Giulia (author)The domain of Sustainable Development innovation is facing a significant transformation. Several trends, social, political, economical forces and players are concurring in the rise the concept of impact on sustainable development challenges. That is being introduces in the strategies of big and small enterprises, at different degrees, varying...master thesis 2019
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Verwayen, Arthur (author)Innovation districts are more and more seen as the answer of cities to the ever changing economy. They can as well be described as urban strategies for economic development and urban competitiveness. Around the world innovation districts pop up and seem to provide the perfect and required environment for an innovation ecosystem to which talent...master thesis 2019
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Tüfekçi, Yasir (author)Virtual Reality glasses are being used in hospitals in order to combat pain and anxiety. These glasses are consumer products however. This project aims to find a feasible solution by designing a custom product that replaces the problems diagnosed in the current product and that enhances the user experience.master thesis 2019
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Camelo Martinez, Diego (author)What makes a startup successful? How to define success? Existent models on startup success prediction often left aside significant predictors which may not be available in typical business databases such as crunchbase. com. In this research, focused on a population of five thousand organisations from the Dutch startup ecosystem, we go beyond...master thesis 2019
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Schoemaker, Jouri (author)The aim of this thesis is to discover the benefits and risks of lean branding for an early stage start-up. Lean branding proposes to apply the theories and methods of the lean startup methodology on branding. These aspects are analysed through a case study of PuurBezorgd. This start-up was in need of a brand identity, making it a viable for this...master thesis 2019
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Uildriks, Anne (author)The aim of this thesis research is to find ways to support student entrepreneurs in the development of sustainable startups. Specifically, to help them to oversee the sustainability impacts during the ideating phase. A design science approach is adopted for this. Seven experts on sustainable entrepreneurship related topics and eight student...master thesis 2019
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Kersten, Max (author)The aim of this project is to bring more eco-design into business practices. The specific approach to this project is to bring eco-design methods to startup with an introduction via the Lean Startup method. With the help of input of startup founders, a solution has been found in the form of an opportunity identification tool. This tool allows...master thesis 2019
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Lyu, Donglin (author)The aim of this research is to provide potential advice to district managers how to attract and retain startups into UIDs, thereby creating an innovative environment and filling the research gap about the part of startups preferences. The results of this research contain the theoretical framework of attraction and retention of startups in UIDs...master thesis 2019
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Meijer, Marloes (author)This project has explored how design can be of added value in early phases of innovation in the context of the startup studio We Are Builders. Insights were gathered from multiple sources to analyse the project scope and explore opportunities. The goal of this graduation assignment is to create a method to execute ideation that We Are Builders...master thesis 2019
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Parmar, Hardikkumar (author)The concept of Venturedam was developed to solve societal challenges in India by nurturing the strength of the innovations made in the Netherlands. For Dutch startups to expand to a new market like India that has a considerable difference in the context, it is first required to redefine the value proposition and the business model specific to...master thesis 2019
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Scholtes, Josefien (author)Rabobank has its own corporate accelerator, called the InnoHub. Within InnoHub there are corporate startups, called the Moonshots. The assignment of this project was to develop a decision method for the brand extension decision of the B2C Moonshots. The brand extension decision is defined as the decision the Moonshots have to make in branding...master thesis 2019
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van den Oord, Dorus (author)This project started from an initial idea to use augmented reality for a new innovative restaurant menu, with the aim of validating and building this idea as a startup. An exploration of the augmented reality market and the 3D scanning market was done to establish the technical feasibilities needed to realise this idea. Further, a deep...master thesis 2018
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Lina Afriana, Lina (author)Startup arguably becomes one of the key drivers in the country economy. The growth of startup depends on how well the ecosystem provides the support needed by the startup. Like other young companies, startups have higher failure rates due to lack of resources, networks, reputations, credibility, innovation, or marketing knowledge for developing...master thesis 2018
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Ferrigno, Luca (author)Today’s market environment is characterized by increasing competition. This competition forces incumbents to innovate if they want to sustain their competitive advantage. Large enterprises start to adopt methodologies pioneered within the startup world, like the lean startup methodology, the innovate. The adoption of this methodology has proven...master thesis 2018