Econ 050: Buying political influence
| Date: | 05 August 2019 |
What is the difference between lobbying and buying influence? Since 2002, it has been legal in the United Kingdom for sitting politicians to hold board positions at private companies, and serve on committees or propose legislation that could directly...
How to measure wellbeing in the digital age
| Date: | 23 July 2019 |
It’s a happy day for Felix Eggers: years of research has come to fruition with research results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
PASSPARTOOL: Key tools to assess and improve soft innovation policies
| Date: | 22 July 2019 |
Thijs Broekhuizen, Erzsi Meerstra-de Haan, and Florian Noseleit are to take part in the PASSPARTOOL initiative to assess and improve soft innovation policies. This 30-month project, funded by Interreg Europe (total sum: €1.6M, sum UG: €124K), aims to...
Econ 050: how can internationals be integrated into the workforce?
| Date: | 12 July 2019 |
There are thousands of internationals living in Groningen, Drenthe and Friesland, many of whom came to the region for their careers. How can they be fully integrated into the economic life of the northern Netherlands?
Teaching robots to speak Gronings: an elderly care experiment
| Date: | 11 July 2019 |
Are elderly people more comfortable with technology if it speaks their language? That's the question Professor Jenny van Doorn will examine in a new project awarded €50,000 in funding from the Idea Generator programme of the Dutch National Research Agenda...
Self-employment can be good for your health
| Date: | 09 July 2019 |
Despite long working hours and high work pressure, entrepreneurs and the self-employed frequently boast high job satisfaction, Milena Nikolova writes in an article about her research for Washington-based non-profit organisation The Brookings Institution.
World-beating results for economics, business and management in Shanghai Ranking
| Date: | 05 July 2019 |
The University of Groningen has climbed close to the top of world rankings in Economics, Business Administration and Management, demonstrating the strength of the Faculty of Economics and Business in education globally.
Econ 050: Green hydrogen
| Date: | 28 June 2019 |
Natural gas has been the Netherlands’ blessing and Groningen’s curse in recent decades. Even as quotas are reduced ever further, earthquakes induced by natural gas extraction continue to jolt the province on a nearly daily basis. But the country and the...
Econ 050: Vaccines and the costs of (in)action
| Date: | 15 June 2019 |
Measles were effectively eradicated in much of the western world decades ago, yet the potentially fatal disease has made a fierce comeback in America and Europe due to growing anti-vaccination movements. What are the health costs of enforcing sufficient...
Econ 050: Groningen - the Dutch Silicon Valley?
| Date: | 04 June 2019 |
What will the northern Netherlands look like in the future? Will it become the next Silicon Valley – and is that something we actually want to become? The tech industry is one of the region’s growing strong suits, but what does that really mean for job...