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...
What Brexit will do to UK trade
| Date: | 21 June 2017 |
Faculty of Economics and Business economists Tristan Kohl, Steven Brakman, and Harry Garretsen analysed what would happen to UK trade after it leaves the European Union.
Solving problems for a clean, local source of energy
| Date: | 19 June 2017 |
| Author: | Dirk Pieter van Donk |
Bio-diesel promises to be a clean option to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is still costly. Often, oil suited for consumption is used for it, putting pressure on food supply. With a rising world population, the idea of using food as a source...
We need a school of public health to tackle the new frontier in medicine: inequality
| Date: | 13 June 2017 |
Poorer people have worse health outcomes than richer people. This is true not just in the Netherlands, but internationally. We see the inequality both between countries, and within them. Even when people have the same health care system, poorer people...
The Bank of England must not pump money into the UK economy due to Brexit
| Date: | 15 May 2017 |
| Author: | Samuele Murtinu |
No sooner had the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union than calls began for the Bank of England to pump money into the economy to avoid deflation.