New research into achieving equity in Dutch academia
| Date: | 27 July 2022 |
In line with increased attention for Diversity & Inclusion in Dutch Higher Education[1], specifically focusing on anti-racism interventions, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has initiated a call for ‘ Advancing Equity in Academia through Innovation’. Researchers, diversity officers, and possible collaboration partners were invited to apply for a Sandpit Workshop 27-30 June 2022. From FEB, Edwina Wong (PhD candidate Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior) and Ella Sebamalai (Diversity & Inclusion Officer) were selected after an application procedure earlier this year.
Energy research for the future of the Netherlands
| Date: | 23 June 2022 |
Evrim Ursavas has been very successful in obtaining external funding for her research. She is currently an associate professor at FEB and her research field is in Supply Chain Design with an emphasis on Energy and Logistics. These are both very important...
The metaverse: why are so many companies investing in this virtual world?
| Date: | 16 June 2022 |
Facebook’s announcement to change into 'Meta' in October 2021 indicates how important 'metaverse' 1 is for the future of the parent company. Since that name change, Facebook's share price has plummeted due to a global outage, privacy scandals, and a...
Multinationals, R&D and Global Carbon Emission
| Date: | 08 June 2022 |
Creating technologies to manage carbon reduction goals requires high investments in Research and Development (R&D). Halit Gonenc, an associate professor at the department of Economics, Econometrics & Finance, studies the effect of R&D investments on carbon emissions for both Domestic Companies (DCs) and Multinational Companies (MNCs). In this blog, he shares his thoughts and findings.
“For the people in power in Russia, it does not really matter whether or not Coca-Cola or McDonald’s operate in Moscow”
| Date: | 19 May 2022 |
As professor in Financial Ethics, Boudewijn de Bruin focuses on a myriad of topics, such as ethics and behavior in financial institutions, codes of conduct, remuneration policies in the financial sector and in other large firms and more recently sustainable finance and the role of financing in climate change. As the war in Ukraine drags on, how does he view the ethical challenges and ethical risks that businesses operating in Russia face?
The effect of induced earthquakes on the housing market
| Date: | 16 May 2022 |
Nicolás Durán dedicated his PhD research to investigating what the indirect and overlooked effects from earthquakes induced by gas extraction are on the housing market and successfully defended his thesis on May 12th. In this blog article, Durán reflects on the research process and discusses his findings.
When Do We See Poverty Convergence?
| Date: | 26 April 2022 |
Convergence is the process of levelling living standards, economic as well as social, across multiple countries or regions. It implies that, over time, differences in given development outcomes shrink. A study by FEB-researcher Konstantin M. Wacker, Jesus Crespo Cuaresma (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and the late Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen) explains why countries starting out with high poverty rates often do not achieve a higher proportionate reduction in poverty.
Introducing new professor Mellie Pullman
| Date: | 22 April 2022 |
Mellie Pullman has recently been appointed as professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the research programme Operations Management and Operations Research (OPERA). Pullman worked at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom...
CONTRAST part 2 - Economic evaluations of stroke care treatments
| Date: | 14 April 2022 |
Chi Nguyen is a PhD students who ispart of the CONTRAST project. Her research will focus on the economic evaluations of stroke care treatments and their organization in the Netherlands. She works along with PhD student Willemijn Maas from the UMCG.
Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets
| Date: | 12 April 2022 |
The notion of knowledge spillovers has been very influential in shaping research and in motivating innovation policies all over the globe, yet it isn’t the only manner in which knowledge (from R&D) diffuses in the current innovation landscape. Knowledge also often diffuses through voluntary technology transfers. FEB-researcher Pere Arque-Castells and Daniel Spulber, a colleague from Northwestern University (US, Illinois), take both channels into account and study their implications on innovation policies and the innovation landscape as a whole.