The in-depth assessment of the situation of the European textile and clothing sector is composed by six independent reports with a close focus on key aspects useful to understand the dynamics and the development of the textile and clothing industry, drivers of change – most notably the impact of the …

In September 2009 the department of Engineering of Fontys University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands has started a pilot honours program for excellent engineering students called PRogram OUstanding Development (PROUD). Aim of this program is to give those engineering students, who have the ambition, …

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In this paper we turn to the field of innovation management and the use of metaphors to address the question: what kind of alternative metaphors and narratives have some open-innovation organizations introduced highlighting and fostering knowledge-intensive organizational change? First we draw a comparative …

In today’s intellectual capital literature, we see a shift from identifying intangibles towards understanding the dynamics of value creation. As it is not clear what “dynamic” stands for, the aim of this explorative and conceptual paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the dynamic dimension …

Metaphors are common phenomena intellectual capital and knowledge management theories and practice. An important question to ask is: what are the ‗best‘ metaphors we can use in our theorizing on intellectual capital and knowledge management? This paper addresses the question of the aptness of knowledge …

Het zijn boeiende tijden waarin we leven. De uitdagingen waar de maatschappij mee geconfronteerd wordt zijn van lokaal tot globaal niveau omvangrijk en vaak schier onoverzichtelijk. In het licht van klimaatverandering, grondstoffentekorten, (over)bevolking, voortbestaan van diersoorten en volksmigraties …

Voor u ligt het rapport over de situatie in Nederland op het gebied van jeugd, zwerfjongeren en alleenstaande minderjarige vreemdelingen. Het rapport beschrijft risicofactoren voor kinderen en jongeren in relatie tot sociale uitsluiting en dak- en thuisloosheid. Dit rapport is het eerste onderdeel van …

This is the report on the situation in the Netherlands in the field of youth, young homeless people and unaccompanied minor aliens. The report describes risk factors for children and young people in relation to social exclusion and homelessness. This report forms the first part of the international …

Designing and personalising systems for specific user groups encompasses a lot of effort with respect to analysing and understanding user behaviour. The goal of our paper is to provide a new methodology for determining navigational patterns of behaviour of specific user groups. We consider agricultural …