Architecture and urbanism can contribute to making our cities more resilient to migration. In ‘City of Comings and Goings’ Crimson brings together a cast of European cities that are marked by migration represented through authoratitive essays by local scholars. These cities are also the source of a catalogue of one hundred projects that tackle the issue of migration in many different ways and on different scales. The essays, the catalogue of projects and Crimson’s manifesto-like introdu...

“A key reading for leaders that outlines how to effectively innovate for the future and boost growth, while running the core business.” - Alex Osterwalder, Co-author of Business Model Generation.

Tendayi Viki is nominated for the Thinkers50.

'The Corporate Startup' has won an Axiom Business Book Awards 2019 Gold Medal and the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2018 in the category 'Innovation and entrepreneurship'.

The Corporate Startup is a practical guide for established companies th...

Innovate or die! How do you achieve long-term growth in a highly competitive business environment? Many established companies are facing a similar challenge. Sales from existing products is declining and the urgency to innovate the existing business and create new businesses is bigger than ever. Scale as a competitive advantage is no longer sufficient to compensate for the slow speed of corporate innovation. We need to leverage the organizations scale and assets and combine this with the spee...

The words ‘technology’ and ‘innovation’ are almost automatically linked with American companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people’s minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West.

While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, ...

Entrepreneurship is an intriguing but complex domain. This textbook provides all the basics for anyone interested in setting up a business. It deals with the domains of intellectual property, market assessment and strategy, financial planning, financing and valuation.

You will find answers to questions such as: How can an entrepreneur test the feasibility of an innovative idea? Where can an entrepreneur find funding? How can an entrepreneur protect a developed technology or product?

As entrep...

Doven en slechthorenden in Nederland hebben een slechtere gezondheid dan gemiddeld. Hoe kan dit? Tegen welke problemen lopen zij aan? En hoe kunnen zowel doven en slechthorenden als medisch hulpverleners er samen voor zorgen dat dit verbeterd? Dit proefschrift beschrijft de resultaten van het eerste grootschalige onderzoek naar medische hulpverlening aan doven en slechthorenden in Nederland. Een ‘must read’ voor mensen die zelf doof of slechthorend zijn en voor de hulpverleners die met d...

This thesis explores the ways in which landscape is relevant as a concept for designing architecture. Buildings that have been designed like landscapes have become a topic in contemporary architecture. The apparent distinction between architecture and landscape is questioned in exemplary theories and new designs.

The core of this thesis is three case studies of architectural designs that use landscape strategies. The analytical model for landscape architectural composition that Steenbergen an...

What do we mean by theory in the arts, and what role does it play in that sense? Theory appears as an active, transformative, fluid, and communicative element of art practices, and research in the arts in particular. Theory is the fluid that perfuses and connects the territory of fine art and design, as well as other art forms such as music, architecture, writing, moving images, dance, and theatre. At the heart of this publication is the new field of research in theory and the way the ArtEZ T...