Research group

Collaborative Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Projects

- Intercultural Chatbots: Using Generative AI to Enhance Intercultural Learning
  1 September 2025 - 31 August 2026
  How can we help students develop intercultural communication skills without sending everyone abroad? This project develops an AI-based tool that lets students practice di...
- Understanding Durability in Circular Business Models (DURBUS)
  1 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
  For decades, the textiles and apparel industry has relied on linear take-make-dispose business models, pushing high volumes of new product into markets. The textiles and...
- Sustainably Sustainable
  1 September 2023 - 1 September 2025
  The 'Sustainably Sustainable' project aims to bridge the gap between people's intentions to live more sustainably and their actual behaviour. Which communication methods...
- Modelling Dynamic Lifecycle Impacts of Circular Procurement in Healthcare (MODLI)
  1 September 2023 - 31 December 2025
  The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability in supply networks in the healthcare sector and the tremendous waste problem and ecological impact of disposable healt...
- The Image project
  23 July 2023 - 30 April 2025
  In general, European urban peripheries have not had a positive reputation over the last decades. In contraposition with the liveliness of urban city centres, peripheral a...
- Collaborating with Competitors for Sustainability
  1 January 2021 - 31 December 2022
  We have developed tools to assess and steer competitive tensions and to monitor the value creation and capture in multi-stakeholder collaborations. Orchestrators or other...
- SDG Barometer
  1 January 2021 - 1 January 2031
  With the 2030 deadline for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals looming, where does the Netherlands stand? The SDG Barometer provides important insights into the a...
- COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS FOR SUSTAINABILITY (CONESU)
  1 September 2019 - 31 August 2024
  Collaborative networks are emerging rapidly as the preferred way of organizing to address urgent societal challenges such as persistent poverty, climate change and rapid...
- The Alliance for Responsible Denim
  1 January 2016 - 31 December 2018
  The Alliance for Responsible Denim (ARD) was a research project from the Collaborative Innovation & Entrepreneurship professorship at the Amsterdam University of Applied...