Full text via link One of the most important drivers of change in the health care sector is the desire of elderly people to age in place. The growing use of internet applications and communication technology together with innovations in buildings have created new commercial opportunities to cater the demands of elderly to grow old in their home environment. Many of these opportunities are facilitated by institutional changes like deregulation and privatization, and benefit from globalization, for example trough stronger incentives for innovation and domestic implementation of ideas that arise in foreign markets
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Full text via link. This research project investigates the connection between internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and innovation in de context of the Utrecht region in the Netherlands. The study makes use of unique data accomplished of with the help of Syntens, the regional agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs that aims to support the SME innovation. The research group International Business and Innovation was asked to evaluate the effectiveness of consultancy with respect to internationalisation. To this end 173 firms returned a questionnaire on their internationalisation success, innovation and the role of public consulting and subsidies. This dataset allows us to analyse the connection between internationalisation and innovation of Dutch SMEs in great detail.
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Full text via link Curricula in higher education are constantly subject to change, especially those curricula that educate people in the dynamic field of energy and sustainability. The aim of this paper is to describe the process of developing a new curriculum in energy engineering called Advanced Energy Technology at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
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