Music festivals are among the most affected sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, despite their precarious situation, several Dutch festivals have managed to innovate and transform during the crisis. This chapter seeks to understand how these festivals managed to bounce forward. Based on three case …

We are currently in the middle of the transformation from Martin Heidegger’s modern society to a society based on digital technology. In the developing digital society, humans in their current state of ‘Being’ are increasingly surrounded by systems that are networked and run based on algorithms, software, …

Open source can be a key ingredient for the distribution of technology and has proven successful in software. The idea has also gained interest in the field of hardware over the last two decades; yet its development appears slow. Not only vary tooling, raw materials, standard parts, and manufacturing …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to solve challenges both in the private and public sector. In industry, for example, future accountants and marketeers will share their day-to-day tasks with AI bots. In the public sector, AI could help governments to act more quickly in crisis situations or anticipate …

C&R 2021 betreft de twintigste editie in de reeks. De inhoud van C&R 2021 is groten-deels vergelijkbaar met de voorgaande uitgave. De hoofdstukken zijn kort en bondig en bestaan uit teksten, kerncijfers en enkele figuren. Daarnaast zijn aparte Excel-tabellen met de onderliggende cijfers beschikbaar bij …

Privacy is a comprehensive notion which is hard to grasp for the layman. To make the privacy notion tangible, creating transparency about privacy practices is an important necessity. Transparency about privacy practices is traditionally (sought to be) established via providing privacy policies and privacy …

Deze onderzoeksnotitie gaat in op het belang van zzp als vorm van bedrijvigheid in zowel creatieve industrie, de deelsectoren daarbinnen en de verschillende domeinen en bedrijfstakken.

In today’s economy digitalization is a necessary condition for SMEs. Following recent developments, such as the emergence of industry 4.0 and Data Driven Logistics, SMEs gained great potential to enhance their business models. They are forced to do so, as major companies, such as Amazon and Unilever, …

This dissertation consists of five studies, addressing the shortcomings in the advertising literature regarding topical advertising, timing, ad creativity, and the role of timing in ad creativity.

Civic prototyping is een proces van experimenteren met creatieve oplossingen om de wereld om ons heen te verbeteren. Dit omvat samenwerkingen tussen mensen in de stad om te betwisten, hacken en innoveren met technologie op je eigen voorwaarden. Dit betekent ook dat technologie creatief kan worden ingezet …