The world needs more jobs to meet United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8 and to keep up with expected population growth. Policymakers stimulate start-ups due to their expected job-generating effect. Despite the increased number of solo self-employed, percentages on graduation from small to larger …

This contribution will describe how the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen, the Netherlands has implemented its entrepreneurship education throughout the entire institution resulting in entrepreneurial awareness among many students and great impact in the regional innovation ecosystem

In the Ems-Dollart-region in the North of the Netherlands and North-West Germany, startups are contributing to the region’s economy. In principal, well-developed startup and entrepreneurship ecosystems are an important factor for prosperity. Such ecosystems consist of companies, regional policy institutions, …

The book captures the response of the Northern Netherlands region to major socio-economic and technological challenges of our time.

Background: Around 13% of the world’s population suffers from obesity. More than 40% of people with obesity display emotional eating behaviour (eating in response to negative emotions or distress). It is an alternate to more effective coping strategies for negative emotions. Our study explored the opportunities …

mHealth 24/7 is een dienst die diabetespatiënten helpt om op eenvoudige wijze toezicht te houden op hun eigen gezondheid. mDiabetes 24/7 is een prototype app binnen de dienst mHealth 24/7. Op dit moment kunnen patiënten met het prototype van de app hun bloedsuikerwaardes, een eetdagboek en de hoeveelheid …

Met duurzame warmtenetten is in Nederland nog weinig ervaring opgedaan terwijl ze wel een belangrijke rol kunnen spelen in de overgang naar een aardgasvrij warmtesysteem. Bestaande warmtenetten zijn doorgaans top-down georganiseerd en hebben vaak een slechte reputatie; veel klanten zijn ontevreden over …

Effectuation is a theory originating in the literature of entrepreneurship, that focuses on behavioral attitudes of founders of multiple companies with over 15 years of experience and proven superior performance, so-called expert entrepreneurs. It includes a set of decision-making principles that these …

This Work-in-Progress Innovate Practice Short Paper is concentrated around online teaching and learning and especially focused on the didactics in remote labs. In a remote lab, the lab equipment or instruments are geographically at another place than the student (and/or lecturer) himself. Learning will …

It is unclear to what extent self-employed choose to become self-employed. This study aimed to compare the health care expenditures-as a proxy for health-of self-employed individuals in the year before they started their business, to that of employees. Differences by sex, age, and industry were studied. …