English:In the Netherlands female entrepreneurs and women in tech have structurally less opportunities than men. The latest numbers from October 2020 show that only 1 percent of all venture capital went to female entrepreneurs. The percentage of non-white entrepreneurs that received financing is even below 1 percent. Remarkable numbers if we look at the demographics of the Dutch population and a clear signal that bias is a structural problem in financing start-ups. Additionally, there remains an underrepresentation of women at all levels in the tech industry.As part of the Rise project, this whitepaper will focus on the question ‘What needs to be done in the coming years to improve the position of female entrepreneurs and women in tech? Building on an expert session, a review of annual reports and a short survey amongst a selected group of support organizations, we focus on the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA) and show a clear trend towards ‘women only’ programs for female entrepreneurs and an increase in the support structures for female tech workers. In this report, the results of a baseline analysis for the state of the field for Female Entrepreneur and Women in Tech in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area will be presented by the professorship of Entrepreneurship from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS).--Dutch:WOMEN Inc., HvA en We Rise hebben een rapport geschreven over de positie van vrouwelijke ondernemers en vrouwen die werken in de tech-sector. Er is onderzocht wat er momenteel wordt gedaan om de positie van vrouwelijke ondernemers en vrouwen in tech te ondersteunen en wat er de komende jaren kan veranderen om dit te verbeteren.
Ontwikkeling van een digitaal ontwerp en fabricageproces ten behoeve van de op maat te maken EnkelVoetOrthesen voor patienten. Het gebruik van rapid modeling technieken en moderne "pre-preg" materialen staan hierbij centraal
In our highly digitalized society, cybercrime has become a common crime. However, because research into cybercriminals is in its infancy, our knowledge about cybercriminals is still limited. One of the main considerations is whether cybercriminals have higher intellectual capabilities than traditional criminals or even the general population. Although criminological studies clearly show that traditional criminals have lower intellectual capabilities, little is known about the relationship between cybercrime and intelligence. The current study adds to the literature by exploring the relationship between CITO-test scores and cybercrime in the Netherlands. The CITO final test is a standardized test for primary school students - usually taken at the age of 11 or 12 - and highly correlated with IQ-scores. Data from Statistics Netherlands were used to compare CITO-test scores of 143 apprehended cybercriminals with those of 143 apprehended traditional criminals and 143 non-criminals, matched on age, sex, and country of birth. Ordinary Least Squares regression analyses were used to compare CITO test scores between cybercriminals, traditional criminals, and non-criminals. Additionally, a discordant sibling design was used to control for unmeasured confounding by family factors. Findings reveal that cybercriminals have significantly higher CITO test scores compared to traditional criminals and significantly lower CITO test scores compared to non-criminals.
Communicatieprofessionals geven aan dat organisaties geconfronteerd worden met een almaar complexere samenleving en daarmee het overzicht verloren hebben. Zo’n overzicht, een ‘360 graden blik’, is echter onontbeerlijk. Dit vooral, aldus diezelfde communicatieprofessionals, omdat dan eerder kan worden opgemerkt wanneer de legitimiteit van een organisatie ter discussie staat en zowel tijdiger als adequater gereageerd kan worden. Op dit moment is het echter nog zo dat een reactie pas op gang komt als zaken reeds in een gevorderd stadium verkeren. Onderstromen blijven onderbelicht, als ze niet al geheel onzichtbaar zijn. Een van de verklaringen hiervoor is de grote rol van sociale media in de publieke communicatie van dit moment. Die media produceren echter zoveel data dat communicatieprofessionals daartegenover machteloos staan. De enige oplossing is automatisering van de selectie en analyse van die data. Helaas is men er tot op heden nog niet in geslaagd een brug te slaan tussen het handwerk van de communicatieprofessional en de vele mogelijkheden van een datagedreven aanpak. Deze brug dan wel de vertaling van de huidige praktijk naar een hogere technisch niveau staat centraal in dit onderzoeksproject. Daarbij gaat het in het bijzonder om een vroegtijdige herkenning van potentiële issues, in het bijzonder met betrekking tot geruchtvorming en oproepen tot mobilisatie. Met discoursanalyse, AI en UX Design willen we interfaces ontwikkelen die zicht geven op die onderstromen. Daarbij worden transcripten van handmatig gecodeerde discoursanalytische datasets ingezet voor AI, in het bijzonder voor de clustering en classificatie van nieuwe data. Interactieve datavisualisaties maken die datasets vervolgens beter doorzoekbaar terwijl geautomatiseerde patroon-classificaties de communicatieprofessional in staat stellen sociale uitingen beter in te schatten. Aldus wordt richting gegeven aan handelingsperspectieven. Het onderzoek voorziet in de oplevering van een high fidelity ontwerp en een handleiding plus training waarmee analisten van newsrooms en communicatieprofessionals daadwerkelijk aan de slag kunnen gaan.
Recycling of plastics plays an important role to reach a climate neutral industry. To come to a sustainable circular use of materials, it is important that recycled plastics can be used for comparable (or ugraded) applications as their original use. QuinLyte innovated a material that can reach this goal. SmartAgain® is a material that is obtained by recycling of high-barrier multilayer films and which maintains its properties after mechanical recycling. It opens the door for many applications, of which the production of a scoliosis brace is a typical example from the medical field. Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine and wearing an orthopedic brace is the common non-invasive treatment to reduce the likelihood of spinal fusion surgery later. The traditional way to make such brace is inaccurate, messy, time- and money-consuming. Because of its nearly unlimited design freedom, 3D FDM-printing is regarded as the ultimate sustainable technique for producing such brace. From a materials point of view, SmartAgain® has the good fit with the mechanical property requirements of scoliosis braces. However, its fast crystallization rate often plays against the FDM-printing process, for example can cause poor layer-layer adhesion. Only when this problem is solved, a reliable brace which is strong, tough, and light weight could be printed via FDM-printing. Zuyd University of Applied Science has, in close collaboration with Maastricht University, built thorough knowledge on tuning crystallization kinetics with the temperature development during printing, resulting in printed products with improved layer-layer adhesion. Because of this knowledge and experience on developing materials for 3D printing, QuinLyte contacted Zuyd to develop a strategy for printing a wearable scoliosis brace of SmartAgain®. In the future a range of other tailor-made products can be envisioned. Thus, the project is in line with the GoChem-themes: raw materials from recycling, 3D printing and upcycling.
Size measurement plays an essential role for micro-/nanoparticle characterization and property evaluation. Due to high costs, complex operation or resolution limit, conventional characterization techniques cannot satisfy the growing demand of routine size measurements in various industry sectors and research departments, e.g., pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and food industry etc. Together with start-up SeeNano and other partners, we will develop a portable compact device to measure particle size based on particle-impact electrochemical sensing technology. The main task in this project is to extend the measurement range for particles with diameters ranging from 20 nm to 20 um and to validate this technology with realistic samples from various application areas. In this project a new electrode chip will be designed and fabricated. It will result in a workable prototype including new UMEs (ultra-micro electrode), showing that particle sizing can be achieved on a compact portable device with full measuring range. Following experimental testing with calibrated particles, a reliable calibration model will be built up for full range measurement. In a further step, samples from partners or potential customers will be tested on the device to evaluate the application feasibility. The results will be validated by high-resolution and mainstream sizing techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and Coulter counter.
