Creativity is one of the vital skills for the 21th century as stated by the European Union. In our earlier work (Buijs et al, 2009) we gave a syntheses of the literature and practice on creativity resulting in an overall model for creative problem solving in groups. This model was called iCPS and consists of […]
The impact of innovation on national economic growth is a widely recognized. Economic growth and job creation activity is no longer characterized by reliance on innovation in large firms but has shifted to S(mall) and M(edium) E(nterprise)s and startup firms. Innovation in SMEs is one of the major drivers in the economic resilience of a […]
The current article reports the New Dutch Makers-project (Havenaar, 2016). The Library The Hague communicated the wish of the integration of a technological laboratory inside the Library Schilderswijk, which has been completed during the process of the project. We propose an approach of multiple project phases in order to tackle the projects complexity. Each phase […]
Purpose: As is commonly known the bond between the wealthy powerful elite and artists is having long lasting roots. Although it seems to be a very old phenomenon it is still rather actual. Once aware of it an unavoidable observation seems to be: entrepreneurs love art. But why? And if we can find an answer […]