This literature study reviews 300 academic publications on digital matching platforms, SME business transfers and the underlying drivers for success in matching and business transfers. How to build digital trust, how to select partners digitally and how to predict survival of digital matching platforms …

The European Commission’s Fitness Check exercise, as part of the Better Regulation agenda is a very hot topic at the moment and has already covered six policy areas since 2010. At the moment, a Fitness Check is being performed on the Birds & Habitats Directives, which can be seen as the most controversial …

The aim of this longitudinal qualitative interview study (3 waves of interviews) was to examine the nature of older workers’ late career decision-making processes, including the main drivers and obstacles for prolonging working life or retiring. Late career decision-making is regarded as a process of …

The aims of this study were to examine howworkers negative age stereotypes (i.e., denying older workers ability to develop) and negative meta-stereotypes (i.e., beliefs that the majority of colleagues feel negative about older workers) are related to their attitudes towards retirement (i.e., occupational …

Implementing the Cradle to Cradle principles in the design of an industrial park is a challenging and complex task and requires a great amount of dedication of all parties involved. Due to the fact that Cradle to Cradle is a relatively new concept, only few experiences have been made with the design …

Open design appears as one in a row of similar expres - sions of ‘open X’ – open access, open data, open knowl - edge, open hardware – most of which were coined in the early years of this century and modelled after ‘open source’ in software. They denote a departure from presumably ‘closed’ practices …

Opdracht van het project Vision 2037 aan een groep multidisciplinaire studenten van De Haagse Hogeschool: Wat is de toekomst van leren en welke rol speelt de hogeschool daarin? Onze samenleving is in transitie en kent daardoor vele feitelijke veranderingen, zoals tekorten op diverse arbeidsmarkten, …

DCT Net levert apparatuur en de infrastructuur aan kerken voor het online uitzenden van kerkdiensten. Omdat de vraag naar HD video kwaliteit toeneemt, is er door CS Engineering een nieuwe kerkzender ontwikkeld die deze kwaliteit mogelijk maakt. Deze kerkzender bevat een Blackmagic DeckLink Studio capturekaart …

The Dutch biogas industry is developing slowly and in many instances still unviable. Insights in the drivers of value creation may help to create viable biogas business networks. This research explores these related drivers and accordingly, proposes a new and comprehensive definition of a driver of value …

Om goed in te spelen op complexe ontwikkelingen in onze snel veranderende samenleving, hebben organisaties hulp en handvatten nodig. In dit artikel wordt daartoe een driestapsaanpak beschreven voor het inzetten van toekomstscenario’s bij strategievorming: identificeren van drivers for change; toekomstscenario’s …