Towards Inclusivity In Entrepreneurship: Utilizing Highly Skilled Refugees: A Research on Supporting Syrian Refugee Entrepreneurs in Germany and the Netherlands through Collaboration between Business Incubators and Local Governments

Recent findings by the OECD highlight that a significant proportion of refugees in Europe possess high levels of education, often being overqualified for their roles. However, literature seldom addresses the unique challenges these highly educated refugees face when integrating into the labor market. This research examines the role of...

The adoption and diffusion of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: The factors that drive and impede the adoption and diffusion of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies of private communication and data storage

Privacy and security are perceived as of great importance. However, readily available Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and their development, innovation and standardization is not very forthcoming. Indeed, the dominant business model is privacy invasive: gathering and using private data as part of the business model to safeguard continuity....

The Impact Bootcamp: Designing a training to support social business in Kenya

This graduation project involved the development of a three-day training for social business development for Kenyan entrepreneurs. The project is carried out for ProPortion, a creative agency based in Amsterdam that realizes social business. Social businesses are a companies that aim to solve social challenges through a for-profit approach and...

Pitch-Crafting Guide for Entrepreneurs

Startups pitch their business to different audiences, for different reasons. In high-stakes situations, it is a well-crafted pitch that decides if they are going to win the competition, get funded or hire the best talent. Pitch is a persuasive attempt to convince, promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner. High stakes pitches are often...

Developing a business opportunity assessment framework: The case of the Prodrive Automated Electrical Tester

A framework to assess business opportunities is being developed in this document. The framework is designed to solve the problem that the decision of managers to exploit a certain technology by means of a certain strategy is often based upon a feeling rather than a set of rational criteria. Therefore these decisions are hard to codify, discuss...