Based on the background of global financial crisis, several companies were affected in the year 2008 and 2009. Not only some small companies but also many big companies experienced a downsize and had to recombine, such as General Motors Corporation, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers Holdings …

Since cooperation between the province of Zuid-Holland and Hebei started in 1993, the science and technology cooperation had been carried out in many fields. The central objective of this thesis is to contribute to the cooperation of integrating groundwater management by a better understanding of groundwater …

In de zomer van 2005 drongen Amerikaanse wetenschappers aan op de ontwikkeling van een nationale strategie op het terrein van materials science & engineering (MSE). De National Research Council (NRC) van de National Academy of Sciences (NAS) had kort aarvoor het rapport ’Globalization of Materials R&D: …

The network economy typically signifies a notion from the information society where new products and services are developed by collaborating individuals and/or businesses organised in virtual networks. The network economy has important characteristics in common with Northern European governance models, …

Ergens in 2007, schat men, werd het punt gepasseerd dat 50% van alle wereldbewoners in steden woonde. Dit percentage zal in de 21e eeuw nog sterk toenemen. Zowel het landschap als de stedelijke ruimte staan onder druk, transformeren onder invloed van economische, politieke, sociale of natuurlijke krachten. …

Indonesia began tourism marketing in 1991. The first program was called Visit Indonesia Decade and ran until the year 2000. Then, for eight years, Indonesia did not have a tourism marketing program. In 2008, Indonesia re-started the tourism marketing program as Visit Indonesia 2008 - 100 years of national …

I started this particular project with an internship at the European Commission in Beijing, China. Experiencing China's enormous growth myself in the last seven months it was clear to me that China will have an even greater impact on both the economic and political agendas of the Western world and its …