Optimal Distinctiveness: The Role of Platform Size and Identity

Recent theoretical advances hold that platforms comprise a second strategic dimension next to size, called identity, which describes the platform's technological and market scope. Letting go of platform size as the main criterion for platform value opens the possibility for platforms to pursue differentiation strategies with a distinct market...

The Sustainability Transitions Platform: A digital innovation platform that serves as a tool for development of sustainability transitions research and as a bridge between theory and practice

Sustainability transitions is a complex multi-dimensional research field. In this field, different frameworks exist that have grown as separate strands while they actually contain many similarities and in some cases can even complement each other. In general, these frameworks try to present and clarify the processes related to transitions of...

Mind your passenger!: The passenger capacity of platforms at railway stations in the Netherlands

This thesis constitutes a first step towards measuring the passenger capacity of station platforms. First, it defines platform capacity on the basis of the locations of queues at exit escalators from platforms, the presence of passengers in the platform-edge danger zone and the duration of stops. It then renders capacity measurable using real...

Workplace Focus for Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADHD has long been thought of as a children's disorder, that you grow out of during puberty. Now we know that this is not the case: 72% of children with ADHD still have it as adults, meaning that an estimated 2.1% of adults in the Netherlands have some form of ADHD. This means that these people still have symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity,...

A new way to approach the next generation parents: Getting Generation Z on board

To stay relevant to its consumers, Philips Avent should meet the needs and values when innovating. These consumers are the next generation parents, generation Z born between 1995 and 2010. Research has been conducted into the needs and values of Generation Z and Parents within the field of pregnancy. The research draws on internal desk research,...

The interplay of risks on digital platform openness – a case study

A platform needs to have sufficient market potential, represented by the number of users who can join a platform. Platform openness affects the ease of actors joining the platform. Hence, in order to increase the chances of platform success, platforms want to maximize market potential and consequently also platform openness. This is problematic...

Platform-based Platooning to Connect Two Autonomous Vehicle Areas

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been successfully applied in closed environments such as ports and industrial zones, while their operation in open areas has a long way to go. The current research is initiated to overcome this limitation by the introduction of platooning as a transfer mode. It investigates a container transportation problem...

Design and Fabrication of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Organ-on-Chips Platforms

Cell behavior in vitro can be regulated by mechanical stimulation. Cytostretch is an Organ-on-Chip (OOC) platform that allows cyclic stretching tissue in culture. Its pneumatic actuation can hinder it from microfluidic systems integration. A dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) was developed and fabricated in this thesis for Cytostretch as an...

Well-being Driven Design: Creating a Meaningful Streaming-platform

People are actively looking to pursue happiness by spending their precious time on meaningful experiences, which are often sought for in media entertainment as it is people’s most engaged in leisure activity today. However, current services fail to support them or even counter them, with their manipulative media-platforms in favor of their goals...

Managing the development of a digital platform for Dutch healthcare companies

Platforms - defined as businesses with network effects, thereby becoming more valuable the more users they acquire - have become economically important in our current economies. They are ubiquitously present in our daily lives and drive an increasingly share of our economies. However, most platforms cease to exists within the first five years....

Realizing smart meter connectivity: Analyzing the competing technologies Power line communication, mobile telephony, and radio frequency using the best worst method

The world is faced with various societal challenges related to e.g. climate change and energy scarcity. To address these issues, complex innovative systems may be developed such as smart grids. When these systems are realized challenges pertaining to renewable energy and sustainability may, in part, be solved. To implement them, generally...

Use of Facebook and Google Platforms for SMEs Business Model Innovation

Development of information communication technologies brings  increasingly more opportunities for optimising various processes and  activities of organisations. In the case of platforms, such a s Facebook and  Google, it is especially relevant to small and medium - sized enterprises.  SMEs can adopt ready - to - use...

Business Modelling to Health and Wellbeing Platforms in Living Lab Settings

Designing a product for learning Visual Thinking

Visual Thinking is becoming an increasingly important and popular skill to learn. Yet currently there are relatively few products and methods available to people for learning it. This creates the opportunity to design a new product for learning visual thinking. The design of this product requires and understanding of how visual thinking itself...

Added Value Concepts for Douwe Egberts’ Cross Selling Category

Douwe Egberts Coffee Systems focuses on the core portfolio of coffee and coffee systems. This results in a category maintenance approach for the cross selling category. Cross selling is selling additional products to existing clients. The economic crisis and increased competitive forces of private labels put pressure on the cross selling...