In de periode januari – juli 2020 heeft een onafhankelijke externe commissie, in opdracht van de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), het Nationaal Regieorgaan Praktijkgericht Onderzoek SIA (Regieorgaan SIA) geëvalueerd. De evaluatie richt zich op de vraag in hoeverre Regieorgaan …

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students. In order to do so, EI, individual entrepreneurial orientation, self-efficacy, perceived educational support, perceived relational support, perceived structural support, knowledge sharing, …

Although dozens of empirical studies have been published on effectuation as a whole, much work remains to be done on elaborating each principle in more depth. Based on an exploratory study of seven ventures from the Caribbean island of Curacao, this paper develops an elaborated process model of the affordable …

Entrepreneurial participation from the neighbourhood is the final report of a two-year action research that investigated how cooperating formal and informal parties can support small-scale entrepreneurship in the Amsterdam neighbourhoods and stimulate participation by people who have unemployment benefits. …

This report analysis the geography of the tech sector in Amsterdam, with a focus on scaleups. After a literature review, it contains a quantitative analysis, showing and mapping the spatial clustering of various types of tech companies cluster in the Amsterdam region. Then, based on interviews, we analyse …

In dynamic and competitive environment, the importance of innovation is accepted as a necessary ingredients for firms to create value and sustain competitive advantage. However, very little empirical research has specifically addressed to what extent different kinds of innovation rely on specific knowledge …

Hoe ervaren de mensen in de wijk het zorgen voor elkaar? Hoe kan de doorgroei naar betaald werk georganiseerd worden in de wijk? En hoe kunnen de vraag naar zorg in de wijk en de mogelijkheden van mensen beter gematcht worden? Deze vragen staan centraal in ‘Samen zorgen in de wijk’, een onderzoeksproject …

The increased generation of food waste is a global and national problem. The purpose of the study is to investigate the factors that influence food waste and the role of technology in tackling food waste in the Netherlands. One of the main findings of the research is food waste is that consumer food …

Amsterdam is known to be a cosmopolitan and multicultural city with multiple economic opportunities. Such context provides suitable legal, political and economic conditions where newly arrived migrants are introducing their business ideas. Migrant entrepreneurs are interacting with the economic ecosystem …