Ningbo United Products wants to expand its line of business from solely business to business to a company that also has a business to consumer branch. They found a product, the foldable solar panel, that they want to do that with. The purpose of this report is to find out the market potential for the …

Gradual retirement as part of (e)conomic inclusion of elderly in communities.Presentation held at the iAge conference Assen, 18th April 2012.

Ymere and the city Almere will in the next ten years develop the residential area Almere Hout Noord. The ambitious targets of this area is a CO2 neutral and energy independent neighborhood with an EPC demand of 0,4. Because of the area's limitations an investigation into air source heat pumps was needed …

The Dutch greenhouse horticulture industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space. However, international competitive advantage of the …

This research is done in order to create the best strategy for Philips Lighting in the changing markets of recently. The goal is to create opportunities while the European legislation concerning the incandescent light bulbs forces the company to gradually remove all its incandescent lamps. The legislation …

The Dutch greenhouse horticultural industry is characterized by world leadership in high-tech innovation. The dynamics of this playing field are innovation in production systems and automation, reduction in energy consumption and sharing limited space. However, international competitive advantage of …

Throughout the world greenhouse horticulture is expanding and intensifying. The expansion is driven by the much higher production levels that are achieved in greenhouses compared to open fields. This provides increased income for farmers and a positive effect on rural development. Intensification is …

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, …

How to design value-added services for the future energy market?Developing a new service design methodology.

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 …