In the face of increasing globalisation, with the biggest cities reaping the greatest rewards, knowledge economy specialist Willem van Winden examines the future for smaller university cities.

This essay claims that the declared war on drugs has failed, it has caused more harm than good, and that a new approach is necessary. The focus of analysis lays especially on the implemented drug policies of Mexico and the United States. The goal is to point out the flaws of the current policy based …

Verne beheert en ontwikkelt een online verzekeringsadministratieplatform. Zij stelt zich tot doel de volledige levenscyclus van verzekeringen zo veel mogelijk te automatiseren. Daarbij hebben ze te maken met verschillende klant-omgevingen van verzekeraars waarin producten aangevraagd en gewijzigd moeten …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

In this paper we explore the extent to which privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) could be effective in providing privacy to citizens. Rapid development of ubiquitous computing and ‘the internet of things’ are leading to Big Data and the application of Predictive Analytics, effectively merging the real …

The main focus of this research was to explore possible reasons for the continuous decline in the congregational membership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God- Jesus House Amsterdam over the last three years. The central argument is that the church started on a ery promising note with regular …

This document is created to fulfil the requirements for completing the study programme International Communication and Media at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. The topic arose in cooperation with the German public relations (PR) agency WAHLE & WOLF. The purpose of this research study is to …

In Egmond aan Zee hebben intensieve buien diverse malen geleid tot ernstige water­overlast in het centrum en schade aan woningen en bedrijfspanden. Na de overlast in augustus 2006 heeft de gemeente Bergen in samenwerking met ingenieursbureau Tauw een maatregelenprogramma opgesteld om wateroverlast voortaan …

In the nineties of the last century, a lot of (ICT) incubators started in the Netherlands, many private (GorillaPark, Ant Factory, Lost Boys and Newconomy), some public, such as Twinning. Most of them stopped early this century or gone bankrupt. From 2005 university incubators like YesDelft!, Erasmus …

This report examines the consequences of unaccompanied and separated, asylum-seeking children (UASASC) turning 18, that are passing through the asylum process in France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It compares the asylum procedures as well as the practices in the management of unaccompanied …