Closed loop or ‘circular’ production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of production. One of the challenges of such systems is that circular products need to be both produced locally with minimum environmental …

Amsterdam Science Park (ASP) is a pearl in the crown of the Amsterdam knowledge economy, with its high-level research institutes (the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam, several institutes of the NWO, the Dutch national science organisation) and a growing number of knowledge-based companies …

This article will discuss philosophical debates on economic growth and environmental sustainability, the role of management responsibility, and the risk of subversion to business as usual. This discussion will be framed using the concepts of Cradle to Cradle (C2C) and Circular Economy about sustainable …

In this dissertation Maarten ter Huurne investigates why users in the sharing economy trust each other.

Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book demonstrates that an economy built on the …

The desire for new experiences that are truly authentic has become an important mainstream in the tourism industry. The main goal of this empirical case study was twofold: 1) To determine which concept of authenticity in tourism literature is most connected to Pine and Gilmore's theory on the search …

There is mounting evidence that efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of human activity on climate and biodiversity have so far been unsuccessful. Explanations for this failure point to a number of factors discussed in this article. While acknowledging cognitive dissonance as a significant contributing …

Hoe staat het met het strategisch vermogen van mkb-bedrijven? Zijn zij voldoende gericht op de toekomst en zijn zij bekend met de Roadmap Next Economy? Bij twintig mkb-bedrijven in de Metropoolregio Rotterdam-Den Haagis deze vraag onderzocht. Bekend is dat mkb'ers weinig op hebben met traditionele strategievorming; …

Op 10 juli 2018 vond op Boerderij De Diek’n te Zeerijp in opdracht van Kenniscentrum Biobased Economy (KCBBE) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen een schetsatelier plaats. Het atelier, dat onder leiding stond van landschapsarchitect Wim Boetze, was een pilot, beoogd om uitvoering te geven aan het Europese …