Identifying Blockages and Unblocking Strategy for Digital Trade Infrastructures Innovation Process

Role of digital infrastructures to improve data exchange on trade lanes becomes more critical as complex border procedures contribute to inefficiency of the international supply chain. However, digital infrastructures innovation in international trade (DTI) has not reached the implementation phase. We are interested to analyse digital trade...

How David became Goliath's teacher: The Exploratory Evaluation of an Internal Corporate Accelerator Program

This report set out to provide an answer on the question of whether the standard format of a startup accelerator program would transfer well to an internal corporate accelerator program, and, when this was proven to not be the case, it was shown how this format could be adapted for internal corporate purposes by answering the three empirical...

Pattern Based Evaluation of Blockchain Technology as a Catalyst for Business Model Innovation: Exploratory Research with Focus on the Potential Implications for e-Health

As blockchain technology became more established in the financial arena, federal health IT officials, vendors and developers started looking at its potential and its use in the healthcare sector. Lately, there has been a major hype around the potential of the technology. It is described as a disruptive technology that could enable business model...

Data-Driven Innovation Scouting: Designing a collaborative platform for corporate venture capital

<br/>This thesis studies the strategic motivations for large firms to engage in partnerships with young ventures, and aims to design a service model for an intermediary that puts the needs of the large firm at the core. This project was commissioned by, and executed in collaboration with Venture IQ, an innovation scouting company founded in...

Shaping the Future. Together.: A strategy to guide and inspire technological innovation across Achmea

Digitalization is a phenomenon describing the increasing use of information and communication technologies in our society as at large and in our daily lives. They reshape the world around us, how we organise our lives, how we interact with friends and family, and how we work and collaborated. Digital technology makes us more connected and more...