Interview: Tristan Kohl on international economics and political economy
| Date: | 30 August 2017 |
How do you get into a career dedicated to understanding the causes and consequences of trade policy? We spoke to Tristan Kohl, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business. He spoke to us about how he got into academia, his research on...
Interview: Mariann Ollár discusses her research in mechanism design
| Date: | 23 August 2017 |
Mariann Ollar has been an assistant professor in the research programme Economics, Econometrics and Finance since 2016. We caught up with her to discuss her forthcoming publication, 'Full Implementation and Belief Restrictions'.
Interview: Yasemin Karaibrahimoglu on financial reporting and corporate governance
| Date: | 16 August 2017 |
Yasemin Karaibrahimoglu came back to Groningen after she spent part of her Bachelor studies as an exchange student at the University of Groningen (UG). She is now an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business and is looking forward to...
Interview: Jutta Bolt on her career as an economic historian
| Date: | 09 August 2017 |
In December 2016, Jutta Bolt received a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden. The fellowship is a prestigious grant of one million euros, comparable to a Vidi-Vici grant of the Dutch NWO. The grant meant that...
Interview Thijs Broekhuizen: coping with digital disruption
| Date: | 02 August 2017 |
Digitisation and the rapid development of online and mobile technologies are radically changing existing business models. While some companies struggle to implement disruptive innovations, others become new market leaders overnight. We spoke to Thijs...
Interview: Bernard Nijstad on the relation between creativity and innovation
| Date: | 28 July 2017 |
| Author: | Neeltje Miedema |
Prof Bernard Nijstad studies the relation between creativity and innovation within organisations. He offers companies in the Northern Netherlands the unique opportunity to participate in his ground-breaking research project. Nijstad: ‘This research...
Interview Bart Los: the harsh truths of Brexit
| Date: | 26 July 2017 |
In the debate over whether Britain should leave the European Union, a striking piece of research from the Faculty of Economics and Business made waves internationally.
How to make healthcare more efficient? A tricky problem that affects us all.
| Date: | 25 July 2017 |
In the coming years, we will experience an increasing demand on our healthcare systems. This is set to be an even more pressing issue due to population growth and longer lifespans. In practice, it means hospitals will have to treat more patients against...
Interview Ajay Kohli: What is academic impact?
| Date: | 19 July 2017 |
Ajay Kohli is the Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair and Professor of Marketing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He visited Groningen to give a keynote speech at the European Marketing Academy conference. The theme of this year’s EMAC conference...
Greenmapper: turning research into an app to allow nature-lovers a voice
| Date: | 13 July 2017 |
| Author: | Peter van Kampen |
Peter van Kampen works at Energysense at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, at the newly developed branch office of UG in Papenburg, and at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences with a research interest in measuring preferences and developing web based or...