These are hard days for companies: they have to survive in a market that has been hit by a financial crisis. Many countries in Europe have severe problems trying to overcome this financial crisis. The main remedy applied by governments is to cut back on expenditure, but on the other hand it is said that it is important for a country, and especially for companies, to invest in innovation. These innovations should lead to innovative products that will lead to profitability turnovers for these companies and, as a consequence, improve the economic conditions in a country. Universities provide students with engineering competences, like develop innovation, with which they can show a higher degree of ability to answer complex questions such as how to become players in the market again. Teaching students to become more innovative engineers, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Department of Engineering, has designed a curriculum in which students are educated in the competence innovation. An important element in the process of teaching innovation to students is the approach of inquiring into possibilities of patents. In the second semester of the first year, students can decide to join an innovative project called: ‘The invention project’. The basis of this project is that students are given the opportunity to create their own invention and with their previously acquired knowledge and skills they design, calculate, prototype and present their invention. In a research project, the experiences of students in this Invention Project have been analysed. The goal of this study was to understand what the success factors are for such a project. The basis of this inquiry is a questionnaire to identify the opinions of students. The research was carried out in the spring semester of 2012. In total 31 students were involved in this research. The results show that there was a high degree of student satisfaction about the Invention Project focused on innovation development. Success factors for this project in the first year of the curriculum were seen: 1 to work on own inventions, 2 development of student’s perception of the total product creation process and 3 to make students see the relevance of contacts with real professionals from industry and from the patent office in their own project. Improvements can be made by: 1 helping students more during the creativity stage in the project and 2 to coach them more on the aspect of engineering a successful invention of which they can be proud. This Invention project is a interesting with which collaborations with other universities can be set up.
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Dutch National Sports Organizations (NSFs) is currently experiencing financial pressures. Two indications for this are described in this paper i.e. increased competition in the sports sector and changes in subsidy division. Decreasing incomes from subsidies can be compensated with either increasing incomes from a commercial domain or increasing incomes from member contributions. This latter solution is gaining interest as a solution for the uncertainties. Many NSFs have therefore participated in a special marketing program in order to enlarge their marketing awareness and create a marketing strategy, in order to (re)win market share on the sports participation market and gain a more stable financial situation. This paper introduces my research related to the introduction of marketing techniques within NSFs and the change-over to become market oriented. An overview of existing literature about creating marketing strategies, their implementation, and market orientation is given. This outline makes obvious that the existing literature is not sufficient for studying the implementation of marketing techniques and market orientation within NSFs. Therefore, it shows the scientific relevance of my research. The paper concludes with the chosen research methodology.
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This Curious Hands Tool can be used for designing STEAM education. The design guidelines in the tool stimulate ands-on learning, the creative process and situated learning activities. The tool distinguishes between different types of STEAM education: technology-focused STEAM, problem- focused STEAM and research- focused STEAM. Depending on the type of STEAM you want to design, it offers practical design guidelines. This tool is developed and tested in various educational practices; it is part of a PhD research ‘Curious hands for E-labs’ (2019-2025).
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The amount of technological aids on the market to support people in their everyday functioning is increasing. For example mobile telephone, electronic diary, skyping and domotics. Many of these aids are too complicated to operate for people with cognitive impairments, like dementia. For technology to be practicable and useful for them, it will have to meet certain requirements. This paper addresses the needs and impairments of people with dementia, and the functional requirements for assistive technology for people with dementia.
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Bij de terugkeer uit de BV kan een lijfrente worden omgezet in een FOR als deze lijfrente is ontstaan uit de omzetting van de FOR in een lijfrente. De Belastingdienst is van mening dat dit alleen geldt voor de oorspronkelijke FOR. De wettekst lijkt ook ruimte te bieden voor de oprenting van het oorspronkelijke bedrag. Mede door het feit dat de gefacilieerde terugkeer uit de BV niet veel wordt gebruikt, is er nog geen duidelijkheid omtrent de uitleg van deze bepaling
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This paper discusses a recent (and ongoing) Dutch television series called Penoza (Kro, 2010-). It portrays the Dutch criminal milieu from the perspective of the daughter of an Amsterdam mobster who shortly into the first season will be the widow of another criminal. Against her wishes she is drawn into the criminal activities of her husband. She feels she has to protect her children and provide for them. Although involved in murder and mayhem while gaining control of the trade in hard drugs, critics applaud the character for taking being a mother seriously. While for women police officers motherhood is usually their Achilles heel, the part of their life in and with which they pay for their ambition and for usurping male authority, it is apparently not a problem for a criminal to do so? Against the dual backgrounds of feminist interrogation of crime fiction and feminism's uneasy relation to motherhood ideology, this people will try to demythologize motherhood. The paper is based on a discourse analysis of all reviews over 250 words that appeared in the Dutch press between August 2010 and August 2015.
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Bijen zijn door hun rol in het bestuiven van planten volstrekt onmisbaar voor het behoud van flora en fauna in Nederland én zij hebben een cruciale economische functie in de land- en tuinbouw. Al een aantal jaren is het duidelijk dat actie nodig is om bijen te beschermen. In 2013 heeft het toenmalige kabinet een Actieprogramma Bijengezondheid gepresenteerd. Dat richtte zich vooral op de honingbij. Deze nieuwe Nationale Bijenstrategie richt zich op alle ‘bestuivers’, in het bijzonder de vele wilde bijensoorten. In Nederland horen juist wilde bijen tot de voornaamste bestuivers. Meer dan de helft van de wilde bijensoorten staat echter op de Rode Lijst. Zij worden met uitsterven bedreigd. In 2017 is in Nederland breed onderkend dat meer insecten in de gevarenzone verkeren. Daarom hebben wetenschappers en maatschappelijke organisaties stappen gezet voor een Deltaplan Biodiversiteitsherstel groene ruimte van Nederland. Verbinding tussen de bijenstrategie en dit deltaplan is van groot belang. Met deze nieuwe strategie willen wij tot een alomvattende aanpak komen om alle bijensoorten en andere bestuivers blijvend te behouden. Daarvoor hebben wilde bijen twee dingen nodig: nestelgelegenheid en voldoende voedselaanbod, zeg maar: bed & breakfast for bees. In de vele initiatieven waaraan wordt gewerkt en in deze strategie zijn drie kernthema’s vastgesteld, namelijk 1) het bevorderen van de biodiversiteit, 2) het verbeteren van de wisselwerking tussen landbouw en natuur en 3) het helpen van imkers om de gezondheid van de honingbij te verbeteren.
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Abstract for the International Federation on Ageing 10th Global Conference "Climate for Change. Ageing into the Future". Melbourne, Australia, 3-6 May 2010
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