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van 't Klooster, Roos (author)Before this thesis, the startup Maki was founded with the aim to inspire people in their twenties to sew their own clothing. A product was developed which gained promising traction. But to scale Maki, gaining traction is vital, just like it is for other startups.<br/><br/>To answer the main question, ‘how can early-stage startups obtain their...master thesis 2022
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Lange, K.P.H. (author)The European Commission aims for a full circular economy (CE), an economy that aims to reuse all resources in 2050. CE is a promising way to increase welfare and wellbeing while decreasing environmental footprints. Industrial symbiosis, in which companies exchange residuals for resource efficiency, is essential to the circular transition....doctoral thesis 2022
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Yan, Hannah (author)Since China's open door policy and with its rapid urbanisation process, modern China has been known as the “testing ground” for foreign architects, including Dutch architecture firms. The architecture practices that firms did in China have enriched their company portfolio as well as increased their international reputation. For years, being a...master thesis 2022
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Jones, Keith (author), Mulder, Femke (author), Morga, Mariantonietta (author), Wanigarathna, Nadeeshani (author)Background and aim - Improving the resilience of business organisations and critical infrastructure providers to disaster events is a major challenge facing many European organisations. Recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and earthquakes in Iceland, Italy, Romania and Greece have demonstrated the need for organisations to adopt...conference paper 2022
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Vasquez Gomez, Pedro (author)Economies, society, and organizations are operating on borrowed time (Lacy & Rutqvist, 2015). <br/><br/>As a response to urgent planetary and societal needs, a critical shift is required on every aspect of how organizations in the construction sector, one of the most resource intensive and pollutant industries, propose, create, and capture...master thesis 2022
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Patil, Tanvi (author)Economic growth, especially after the financial crisis of 2008, has been declining in many OECD nations. Declining economic growth has negative effects including a lower rate of productivity growth, stagnating standards of living, increases in income inequality etc. Many economists believe that stagnating fixed business investment is one of the...master thesis 2022
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Latifi Rostami, S.M.A. (author)Although business model innovation (BMI) can create a firm's competitive advantage and enhance its performance, many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) fail to obtain the expected outcomes when innovating their business model. BMI leads to irreversible fundamental changes in key components of a company's business model, which means it...doctoral thesis 2022
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Dijkhuis, Jeffry (author)A profound change is occurring in the Dutch energy system and significant growth in energy production from renewables can be observed. This requires flexibility solutions to balance the demand and supply of electricity. As described by the European Union in the Clean Energy Package, aggregators have the important responsibility to provide this...master thesis 2022
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Tijhuis, Koen (author)AiDx Medical is a medical start-up, a spin-off from the TUD, which Temitope Agbana currently leads. AiDx is developing an automated diagnostic device for emerging markets: the AiDx assist. AiDx has chosen Nigeria for the first market introduction since Temitope has his prime partners there. The idea for creating the start-up started with...master thesis 2022
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Both, Julian (author)Farming has been essential for thousands of years, but recently climate change and environmental concerns began to arise, putting pressure on the agricultural industry since they are a significant contributor of nitrogen emissions, especially from livestock manure. Fortunately, there are start-ups that try to overcome the nitrogen problem by...master thesis 2022
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ter Pelkwijk, Annelies (author)Biodiversity is declining worldwide because of population growth and the rising demand for goods. Biodiversity is needed for our ecosystem services which provide us with fresh water and medicine which means people are dependent on a healthy biodiversity. Cities want to greenify to battle the urban heat island effect and the bad water...master thesis 2022
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Steenkamp, Teun (author)Plastic, the material that took the world in the 1950’s is nowadays not only seen<br/>positively. Plastic is literally everywhere and our modern way of life would not even be possible without it. However, when not managed and treated correctly plastic can affect modern day life significantly posing environmental risks and possible human health...master thesis 2022
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van Donge, W. (author), Bharosa, Nitesh (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Government agencies are becoming more data-driven and need high-quality data to fulfill their roles in society. In the past, each agency organized its own data exchange system according to its own needs. Today, data is distributed over many organizations, and government agencies need to adopt an ecosystem approach for data exchange. Fundamental...journal article 2022
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Lange, K.P.H. (author), Korevaar, G. (author), Oskam, I. F. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)This study furthers game-based learning for circular business model innovation (CBMI), the complex, dynamic process of designing business models according to the circular economy principles. The study explores how game-play in an educational setting affects learning progress on the level of business model elements and from the perspective of six...journal article 2022
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Bai, C. (author), Yan, Peng (author), Yu, Xiaoqiang (author), Guo, Jifeng (author)Unmanned and intelligent technologies are the future development trend in the business field. It is of great significance for the connotation analysis and application characterization of massive interactive data. Particularly, during major epidemics or disasters, how to provide business services safely and securely is crucial. Specifically,...journal article 2022
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Lin, Dong Qiang (author), Broere, W. (author), Cui, Jianqiang (author)In the urbanisation process of the past few decades, the use of urban underground space (UUS) has contributed to new town developments in many cities in the world. This offers an opportunity to map out and systematically describe the potential contributions of UUS for transport, land use, economic, environmental and social development in new...journal article 2022
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Bos-de Vos, M. (author)It is no news that it is challenging to run a financially successful architecture business. Clients do not always need or value the full spectrum of services an architect wishes to provide, making it increasingly hard to negotiate a profitable fee. It is not only market conditions that lead to challenges. Challenges also originate from within...journal article 2022
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Doherty, Edelle (author), Brychkov, Dmitry (author), Romero Herrera, N.A. (author), McLoughlin, Eilish (author), Roudil, Nadine (author), Smit, Sander (author), Maas, Stefan (author), Gauthier, Florence (author), Clifford, Eoghan (author), Delmonte, Branca Arthur (author)Schools are learning communities where multiple stakeholders can collaborate to learn about energy efficiency, including via formal curricula, non-formal learning and day-to-day practices. Furthermore, by improving energy literacy among building occupants, the energy efficiency of schools can be improved. However, turning schools into learning...conference paper 2022
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Strohmeier, Martin (author), Olive, Xavier (author), Sun, Junzi (author)The usage of large private and business jets, from those owned by Elon Musk to Kylie Jenner and Bernard Arnault, has recently attracted considerable attention in many countries. Enabled by open and crowdsourced aircraft tracking systems based on the automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast protocol, the aircraft and their owners have been...journal article 2022
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Sun, Junzi (author), Olive, Xavier (author), Strohmeier, Martin (author)Civil aviation contributes to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Flights carried out by private and business jets are only a very small fraction of commercial passenger flights. However, these private flights are extremely environmentally inefficient and account for the most emissions per passenger in the aviation sector. While the...journal article 2022