This dissertation explores the controversial concept of the green economy and the rapidly increasing environmental concerns associated to the heavy energy industry. The main objective of this paper is to investigate how China's 12th Five-Year Plan responds to the green economy paradigm. Hence, it examines …

Much research effort is invested in developing enzymatic treatments of textiles by focusing on the performance of enzymes at the laboratory scale. Despite all of this work, upgrading these developments from the laboratory scale to an industrial scale has not been very successful.Nowadays,companies are …

Dieses Manifest postuliert, dass die aus den Geisteswissenschaften kommenden Medienwissenschaften keinen produktiven Zugriff auf die Neuen Medien und vor allem das Internet ermöglicht haben. Der übergeordnete Begriff «Medien» wird mehr und mehr zu einem leeren Signifikanten. In Zeiten universitärer Reformen, …

The creative economy is described by media entrepreneur and analyst John Howkins as ‘the fastest growing business in the world’ and reflects the growing power of ideas – and how people make money from ideas. It is driven by the view that ‘twenty-first century industries will depend increasingly on the …

The scope of this thesis of Gerrit Bouwhuis, lecturer at Saxion Research Centre for Design and Technology in Enschede is the development of a new industrial applicable pre-treatment process for cotton based on catalysis. The pre-treatment generally consists of desizing, scouring and bleaching. These …

A lot of research effort is put in developing enzymatic treatment of textiles by focusing on the performance of enzymes on lab-scale. Despite all this work upgrading of these developments from lab-scale to industrial scale has not been really successful. Companies are nowadays confronted with rapid developments …

This publication by Kathryn Best accompanied the Lector’s inauguration as head of the research group Cross-media, Brand, Reputation & Design Management (CBRD) in January 2011. The book outlines current debates around the Creative Industries, business and design education and the place of ’well being’ …

When conducting research in and for the creative industries, there are a wealth of different possible research approaches that can be taken - reflecting the diverse nature of the disciplines (design, arts and crafts, advertising, architecture, fashion, film, music, TV, radio performing arts, publishing …

The head office of Stiho B.V. decided to make their organization stronger. Now the product specialists of the northern region are spread over two establishments, this results in a longer communication time between the salesmen of the two establishments. Because the specialists are not in the same office …

To find the demands for Dutch civil waterworks constructions literature was studied and an Internet Survey was created and sent to customers of civil waterworks constructions such as most Dutch water boards, Rijkswaterstaat and the province of North Holland. This created a broader vision of what is used …