First-time buyers on the Dutch housing market: An analysis of their (changing) position

Ensuring good living accomodation is a constitutional duty of the government, but there is now a shortage of 300,000 homes. Demand for housing has grown sharply in recent years. In the last two years, the housing market issue has been high on the political agenda again. In it, the issue of starters regarding home ownership occupies a prominent...

Developing geographic information infrastructure: The role of information policies

Within information societies, information availability is a key issue affecting societyâs well being. The infrastructure underlying the foundation of the information society may be referred to as the information infrastructure. A geographic information infrastructure (GII) supports the information infrastructure with regard to geographic...

Classical HPCN geared to application in industry

In The Netherlands as a result of a national HPCN initiative a Foundation HPCN was established in 1995. The purpose of this Foundation is to stimulate structural and lasting cooperation of universities, technological institutes and industry in economically relevant applications of HPCN. Projects have been selected and since the beginning of 1996...