Publications

Achieving greater sustainability impact from cross-sector collaborations

Entrepreneurs must reflect on their sales role and get into action! Especially during Covid-19

This article presents seven actions to owner-managers of SMEs about what they should do on the sales side to get their companies and their customers through the crisis. The overarching theme is not to wait but to ...

Urban Innovation Systems

Introduction: There are good reasons to study urban innovation from a systemic perspective. A key finding in innovation research is that organizations rarely innovate in isolation, but in interaction with clients, ...

Adopting zero-waste indigo dyeing production

DyStar is a multinational organization and world leader of dyestuffs and chemical manufacturing. As the world’s largest supplier of textile dyes, it offers a broad range of products and has increasingly ...

The state of cross-border ecommerce in Europe

This interactive report displays the cross-border ecommerce adoption and performance of online retailers in 31 countries in Europe.

Collaborating with competitors ... 5 tips to managing competition in multi-stakeholder collaborations

International officers finding their role in internationalisation at home

Though internationalisation at home is a relatively recent concept, it has already been embraced widely, particularly in northern and western Europe. Internationalisation at home aims to bring internationalisation to ...

Worldwide internet penetration, 2000-2016

This viz shows the trends in worldwide Internet penetration (percentage of population with Internet access) over time using ITU data from 2000-2016.

HvA Professors on Twitter

Dashboard about Twitter activity (e.g. no. of tweets) & success (e.g. engagement) of Professors of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)

I was housed, fed, loved and saved in Syria by the refugees

A reflective account of being Alone, Asian and Atheist in the Middle East

Defining 'internationalisation at home'

In recent discussions on the internationalisation of higher education, the constant introduction of new terms and definitions has rightly been criticised. Although we are fully aware of this, we consider that the ...

Business Models for Sustainable Energy Development

Business-led approaches to accessing energy in development countries are becoming key factors to sustainable market development. Given the major challenges in this market, companies will blend commercial and ...