Stakeholders and in particular customers are an important source for business model innovation. Especially for sustainable business models, stakeholder integration may radically change the business logic and help to revise the business model. In this process cognition plays a central role, challenging …

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

This paper aims to find opportunities in a new medium that could support treatment for eating disorder (ED) patients. This research is based on the study of previous scholars, expert interviews, a focus group workshop (part of an iterative design process) and cognitive mapping method. Major findings …

“To provide insight in the needs of (non-educational) organizations regarding innovation, identify the differences between these needs and the needs of schools regarding innovation, and develop a prototype (first model of how a product or service looks and works) for services that Consilience can provide …

This paper examines a co-production arrangement between private actors, households, and community actors occurring within the framework of scheme of commercialised spring water in peri-urban Bandung, Indonesia. We argue that the provision of spring water in Ujungberung District is a form of co-production, …

This thesis deals with the problem of students who do not always know how to fill in their leisure time. There is limited information on the behaviour of Dutch students in their leisure time. By researching their passion related behaviour I gained insight in the positive and negative points regarding …

Little is known about innovation in the non-profit sport sector. The current research addresses this gap by questioning whether and to what extent sport federations innovate. It aims to identify types of innovation implemented by sport federations and their attitude and preferences towards innovation. …

The background information gives an insight into Hotel Imperio Inn. Their source market are couples, about 70% Guatemalans, 30% foreigners both coming for leisure and business (more nationals) purposes. Coziness, Comfort, Elegance, Spaciousness, Innovation and Quality are the values of Hotel Imperio …

This paper is a case report of why and how CDIO became a shared framework for Community Service Engineering (CSE) education. CSE can be defined as the engineering of products, product-service combinations or services that fulfill well-being and health needs in the social domain, specifically for vulnerable …

In this chapter we discuss the main impediments to the adoption of reverse factoring (RF) by suppliers in the logistics services business. Although the usage of RF is ascending, empirical evidence on RF and its implementation, especially from the point of view of suppliers, is scarce. The project reported …