In this chapter, we will address the motive to start developing a business model and the context in which you are doing so. It is important to use this first building block of the Business Model Template (BMT) to carefully look for the social and ecological components and the context of your idea. The …

Inter-organizational arrangements that aim to address social and environmental “grand challenges” often take the form of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) (also cross-sector partnerships or collaborations). Grand challenges -- problems characterized by knowledge uncertainty, dynamic complexity and …

Industrial Symbiosis Networks (ISNs) consist of firms that exchange residual materials and energy locally, in order to gain economic, environmental and/or social advantages. In practice, ISNs regularly fail when partners leave and the recovery of residual streams ends. Regarding the current societal …

Limacon is a marketing agency that provides services in marketing, sales, event management and business digitalization. The company consists of 21 employees, 5 of which are the managers of the five main departments of the company – marketing, sales, events, web and administration. The target customers …

In Nederland zijn er nog altijd veel jongeren die te maken hebben met dak- thuisloosheid. Voor jongeren brengt dit ernstige gevolgen met zich mee voor hun veiligheid en ontwikkeling. Gezien de complexiteit van deze problematiek groot is, bestaat er geen directe oplossing om dit probleem op te lossen. …

Introduction Since the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a manageable chronic disease. However, school-age children (4–18 years) living with HIV could still experience problems with functioning at school, due to the impact of the virus …

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate which critical success factors (CSFs) influence interaction on campuses as identified by the facility directors (FDs) of Dutch university campuses and to discuss how these compare with the literature. Design/methodology/approach: All 13 Dutch university …

On 8 and 9 October 2020, the Reinwardt Academy hosted the digital conference Ethnology Lab on the Workings of Covid-19 on Museums. The programme was geared to address the challenges faced by museums and cultural heritage institutions in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These included some of the …

Het jongerenteam van de gemeente Groningen en WIJ-teams in de gemeente Groningen werken regelmatig samen aan trajecten van zorgjongeren met een bijstandsuitkering om ervoor te zorgen dat zij (met de nodige ondersteuning) kunnen participeren in de samenleving. Op dit moment laat de samenwerking te …

Paper presentation on (the importance of) informal social work, based on research on this theme by the Department of Urban Social Work in the past years in New West Amsterdam and South east Amsterdam.