Identification and prioritization of factors and their influence on corporate venturing success: The analysis of influential factors affecting the success of the corporate ventures using the Best-Worst methodology and their prioritization assessment

Corporate venturing practices have been one of the most successful practices in terms of shared innovation or leveraging outside talent to further one’s competitive edge in the rapidly growing and evolving industry of technology. Since, technology has been one of the main driving factors in providing solutions for achievement of short term and...

Asymmetrical partnerships in conceptual housing: How start-ups manage to become competitive in the conceptual housing industry

In the Netherlands there is currently a high demand for affordable housing (Volkshuisvesting en Ruimtelijke Ordening, 2022). Earlier research indicated modular integrated housing can serve as a repercussion against this problem (Khan et al, 2022). The Dutch government wants to promote innovation in the construction industry to help solve the...

Demystifying the Innovative Character of the Marineterrein: A Communication Interface to Strengthen the Relationship Between Innovators and Citizens

For decades, the Marineterrein used to be a military base that was closed off from the rest of the city. Due to budget cuts, the Ministry of Defence decided to gradually leave the Marineterrein in 2011 and return the territory to the city of Amsterdam. The Marineterrein has been undergoing area development since 2013, gradually opening to the...

A modality innovation approach: How can royal schiphol group identify and select future proof forms of mobility?

Royal Schiphol Group is the overarching organisation of multiple airports, among which Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. As the world around these airports is quickly changing with aviation under pressure, and a huge amount of new potential modalities, RSG is in need of an approach to deal with new kinds of modalities. This project was executed for...

Are University Business Incubators Overprotective Parents?: A Knowledge as a Resource-Based Perspective on Growth of Academic Spinoffs using an Open Innovation and Absorptive Capacity Framework

University business incubators are a global rising phenomenon and have an imprint on the genetics of high technology-based academic spin-offs and are central to the triple-helix model of innovation systems for academia-industry-policy. Research focused on Regional Innovation System of Delft suggest that the high technology-based start-ups face...

Designing a co-creation tool for an innovation platform in the Dutch e-government

Digitization often comes with its challenges. This thesis focuses on a new approach to innovating digital public services in the Netherlands. Innovation in the public sector encounters public sector specific innovation barriers, hampering the innovation process. Innovation in the public sector is still a little researched topic in the innovation...

Developing Responsible Innovation Systems: The case of the rural energy sector in India

Technologies used in the energy sector, and many other sectors, are too complex for innovation by a single actor. Many influences from different types of actors are required to advance the technology, creating a collective innovation process. However, without the right accountability structures between different types of actors, unfavourable...

HEINEKEN Open Innovation: Towards win-win relationships with young ventures.

The high speed at which innovations nowadays succeed each other calls for a different approach towards innovation in order to stay ahead of competition. Open Innovation; the purposive use of in- and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation and expand the markets for external use of innovation, has therefore widely been adopted in...

The impact of IT and Open Innovation tools on the New Product Development Process

The process of New Product Development is one of the most important competitive factors in today’s market environment. Nevertheless, it remains an risky and uncertain business and both the academic field as companies try to identify best practices to improve this process. In the past two decades, firms have increasingly adopted Information...

The Art of Openness: An Empirical Study of Openness on University Spin-off Firms

As an extension to the research on “Open Innovation”, this thesis, based on an empirical study of university spin-offs (USOs), intends to make some contributions to the increasing understanding of “openness”, not only for micro and small size firms, but also in another context other than U.S.. Moreover, instead of analyzing from a traditional...

Finding Markets for Disruptive Innovations: How Social Media Can Help

Festo is a leading world-wide supplier of automation technology and in this sector also the performance leader in industrial training and education programs. The dutch regional office of Festo has in the past decade experienced a change in their relationships with customers. Not only has their market changed from a technology push to a...

Connecting SMEs through Design, a Framework for the Intermediary

Purpose - Open Innovation provides opportunities to overcome the problems that SMEs have in a product innovation process. The purpose of this study is to understand and improve the pivotal roles of the innovation intermediary in an open setting to match small firms through design activities. The matching process is caught in a model that...