Ondanks de in de managementliteratuur beloofde voordelen leidt het concentreren van ondersteunende processen in shared service centers (SSC’s) in de praktijk vaak tot problemen, vooral op het terrein van de coördinatie. Dit heeft grote gevolgen voor de effectiviteit van SSC’s. Een strategie die steeds …

Eén van de doelstellingen van het onderzoeksproject Flexiheat is het ontwerpen van innovatieve business modellen die een succesvolle exploitatie van warmtenetten stimuleren door het benutten van flexibiliteit. Binnen Flexiheat is het Energy Transition Park in Wijster met de afvalverbrandingsinstallatie …

The „Ageing of Europe‟ phenomenon is related to a higher life expectancy of European inhabitants as well as to decreasing fertility and mortality rates. Those developments affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) because the number of older workers in SMEs is increasing too. Our research investigates …

Both connectivity and accessibility are important for regional development. Places and communities need to be connected in order to be part of the wider economy, and people need to have access to places, other communities and labour markets to fully participate in society. In contemporary society, not …

This report uses experience gained during the EU Interreg IVB project ITRACT and shares transnational learning on how to deploy IT-based solutions as part of Smart Specialisation Strategies, for example, while creating answers to societal challenges. ITRACT concentrates on rural areas, where the availability …

This paper relies on knowledge gained from ITRACT (Improving Transport and Accessibility through new Communication Technologies), an Interreg IVB project in the North Sea Region. We will show how digital innovation to promote mobility and accessibility in rural areas is limited by poor data infrastructure …

Movie: Results of the project Improving Transport and Accessibility through new Communication Technologies. This project is funded by the European Regional Development Fund within the Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme.

This study investigates the clinical course of and prognostic factors for quality of life (Short Form 36 items Health survey (SF-36)) and global perceived effect (GPE) in patients treated for chronic nonspecific low back pain at 5 and 12-months follow-up. Data from a prospective cohort (n ¼ 1760) of …

Donderdag 5 februari 2015 vond de eindconferentie plaats van het project ITRACT: Improving Transport and Accessibility through new Communication Technologies, als onderdeel van het Europese Interreg North Sea Region Programme. 16 partners uit Noorwegen, Zweden, Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië en Nederland …

Organisations are increasingly becoming interdependent in order to create and deliver superior value to their customers. The resulting business mod- els of such organisations are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to de- sign, because they have to deal with multiple stakeholders and their competing …