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 …

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 …

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. …

In 1949 the People's Republic of China emerged from a civil war with communist Mao Zedong as its victor. During the peak of Mao's rule China was completely isolated from the world. In the 1960's China lost the support of the Soviet Union due to failed policies such as the Great Leap Forward and various …

This research is done for ABM-idea. The central aspect of the assignment is to investigate possible expansion of business for ABM by maintaining the sales in the Italian market. By means of this research, the following recommendations were reached: Recommendation 1: The economic situation of the entire …

One needs three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed. (Graham, 2005) Five …