Flexibility services by a community microgrid: Quantifying the value of flexibility services by a community microgrid in the context of the Dutch electricity sector using Schoonschip as case study

The volatile production of renewable energy sources is often considered a key issue in future sustainable energy systems. Drawing on microgrid research, we argue that the potential synergy between microgrid energy management and provision of flexibility services to the wider grid could be further explored. In addition, the trade-off between cost...

Successful market entry in the European commercial space industry

The Influence of Big Data Implementation towards Business Models in Different Sectors

There is nowadays an increased use of data, reaching 2.5 exabytes globally, and is expected to double every two years (Morvan, 2016). An enormous amount of data can now be generated, ranging from smartphones to sensors in machineries. However, most organizations are reported to be able to only create and store data, and creating added value from...

Hybrid Business Model for the Dutch Mental Care of 2030

This project’s research question is: How is society able to organize a mental healthcare system, that serves people’s individual care needs and is collectively economically viable? This research question regards a business model on a system level and the hybridity is reflected in the tension between the individual interest of fulfilling a care...

Uncovering the potential of a mobile locker service to improve last mile goods delivery in Asia

In 2016, Ford revealed its innovative concept 'Autolivery'. Nevertheless, the exact deployment conditions for the 'Autolivery' are not yet in place. In order to inhibit the collision space towards future implementation, a 'mobile locker' concept will come first, as seen in a roadmap. In this report, the potential of the 'mobile locker' service...

The Role of Sustainability in Business Model Innovation of Start-ups in Indonesia: Multiple Case-study Design

The environmental awareness in business practices has grown to be a central issue in corporate social responsibility for many multinational companies. Unfortunately, it remains a way of brand management for many companies, rather than a drive for structural change in business practices.Business models should therefore be reshaped, to deliver...

The impact of using zero-emission trucks and waterborne AGVs for freight transport

In order to limit the impacts of climate change, there is a pressing need to accelerate the development and implementation of sustainable transport technologies and to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This research provides an in-depth investigation into the impact of zero-emission vehicles on freight transport flows in terms of the...

Business Models for Industry 4.0: Developing a Framework to Determine and Assess Impacts on Business Models in the Dutch Oil and Gas Industry

Circular Supply Chain Collaboration in the Built Environment

The main purpose of this study is to examine in what way supply chain collaboration in the built environment can contribute to the transition to a CE in the Netherlands. The study is structured along three main parts: (1) a theoretic part for conceptualising circular supply chain collaboration, (2) a case study where this conceptualisation is...

Business Modelling to Health and Wellbeing Platforms in Living Lab Settings

How do SME’s use Business Model Stress Testing?

How do Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, familiar and unfamiliar with Business Model Tooling, and different lifecycle stages, use Business Model Stress Testing in order to be more agile in responding market dynamics? In the continuously changing world, where Dynamic Markets demand Agile organisations that can cope with Disrupting Innovations,...

From Consumers to Users and Contributors

To meet the growing demand of mobile devices, it is important to regain and re-use the products, components and materials. The first steps are already taken by introducing new business models towards the circular economy. To stimulate these circular business models, suggestions are given how to change customer behaviour towards circular economy...

Develop a Business Model Framework for service provisioning in a B2B context

Product service combinatory businesses have evolved into an important economic force, especially over the past decade (Van Halen, Vezzoli, & Wimmer, 2005). Exploring business model frameworks and hence devising a Business Model (BM) framework for product-service combinations in business to business (B2B) context was the problem at hand. BM...

Circular Business Model Innovation: A process framework and a tool for business model innovation in a circular economy

The Master’s programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology. Companies need new business models to grasp the opportunities of a circular economy. This thesis investigates to what extent existing frameworks, methods and tools for business model innovation are useful to cope with the...

Business Model Development in the Front End of Innovation

The first stages of innovation are highly uncertain. Companies often collaborate with other organizations in an attempt to combine different knowledge and expertise, and share risks. However, organizing and managing innovation in a network business environment is quite complex and challenging. The activities in the front end of the innovation...