This chapter diagnoses the situation of high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Eindhoven Brainport region in the south of the Netherlands, based on desk research and additional background interviews. This region has an ecosystem with a very proliferated heritage of technology-based companies …

Inaugural Vision Professorship International Business

Workshop Entrepreneurs cooperate to meet social conditions

Gastcollege voor studenten over resultaten onderzoek Waarderen Inkoop door MKB.

Film van de Kick-off bijeenkomst van het RAAK MKB programma 'Bedrijfskundige Innovatie in de Aardbevingsbestendige Bouw op 16 juni 2016

Om ondernemers de crisis door te helpen, startten Gert Walhof, Geoffrey Hagelaar en Richard Holman in 2012 het onderzoek ‘Waarderen van inkoop door mkb’. In dit artikel presenteren zij drie managementinstrumenten die ze in samenspraak met de ondernemers hebben geselecteerd en ontwikkeld.

The Procurement Platform Groningen is a cooperation of 15 tendering authorities in the northern part of the Netherlands. The Platform requested Hanze to start a research project concerning the Social Added Value of the Platform’s spend. The first phase of this research has now been completed. This phase …

Presentation on social procurement in the Netherlands, partnership and labour pools by empoyers.

Entrepreneurship is often used as a synonym for starting up a new business. Existing SMEs — from purchasing to succession — are all too often left out of the picture. This booklet tells the stories of those involved in handing over their businesses to the next generation. It’s an honest and straightforward …