This booklet contains the analyses and designs that were produced by international teams of students, designers and researchers on the revitalization of public space in the district of Kerkrade – West (Limburg, the Netherlands) in December 2017 during the International Design Workshop (re)CYCLE LIMBURG 2. It was partially built on knowledge, experiences and ideas from the preceding workshop in December 2016. The outcomes of the workshop are mainly presented in the form of drawings, maps, schemes, collages, artistic impressions etc. Both workshops were framed in the interdisciplinary project Kerkrade-West of Zuyd UAS and its Research Centre for Smart Urban ReDesign (SURD).
This booklet contains the analyses and designs that were produced by international teams of students, designers and researchers on the revitalization of public space in the district of Kerkrade – West (Limburg, the Netherlands) in December 2017 during the International Design Workshop (re)CYCLE LIMBURG 2. It was partially built on knowledge, experiences and ideas from the preceding workshop in December 2016. The outcomes of the workshop are mainly presented in the form of drawings, maps, schemes, collages, artistic impressions etc. Both workshops were framed in the interdisciplinary project Kerkrade-West of Zuyd UAS and its Research Centre for Smart Urban ReDesign (SURD).
Today, Intellectual Capital plays a principal role in the delivery of corporate performance. This importance is reflected in the fact that companies, without the force of any regulations, start to produce intellectual capital statements to communicate their performance; accounting guidelines are being developed and standards are being questioned and reviewed; software companies such as SAP, Hyperion, Oracle, or Peoplesoft are developing applications to address this, and even governments are beginning to measure the intellectual capital of cities, regions, and countries. Accenture writes that today's economy depends on the ability of companies to create, capture, and leverage intellectual capital faster than the competition. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young believes that intangibles are the key drivers for competitive advantage. KPMG states that most general business risks derive from intangibles and organizations therefore need to manage their intangibles very carefully. PricewaterhouseCoopers writes that in a globalized world, the intellectual capital in any organization becomes essential and its correct distribution at all organizational levels requires the best strategy integrated solutions, processes and technology. Even though the leading management consulting firms recognize the importance of intellectual capital – they seem to suffer from the same predicament as the field as a whole. Intellectual capital is defined differently and the concept is often fuzzy. In this special issue of the leading journal in the field we would like to bring together the definitions, approaches, and tools offered by the leading management consulting firms. It will be a unique opportunity to disseminate your understanding of this critical area of management and allow you to illustrate your approaches and tools.
De fashion-industrie is in transitie, nu consumenten steeds meer online zoeken, kopen en communiceren. De meeste retailers hebben inmiddels een webshop gerealiseerd, maar inzicht ontbreekt hoe de fysieke winkel levensvatbaar te maken en houden. Dit betekent in de praktijk dat lastig is om fysieke winkels open te houden hetgeen in veel steden leidt tot teloorgang van winkelstraten en –gebieden. Ook hebben retailers onvoldoende handvatten om de omni-channel consument goed te herkennen en te benaderen en de verschillende kanalen goed op elkaar te laten aansluiten. Veel retailers hebben behoefte aan goede informatie op de winkelvloer over producten en klanten. Graag zouden ze snel willen weten wat consumenten in het verleden hebben gekocht, of ze de nieuwsbrief ontvangen, welke producten er online of in andere filialen nog beschikbaar zijn. Daar kan in een verkoopgesprek op worden ingespeeld. De technologische oplossingen zijn daarvoor beschikbaar, maar deze worden nog maar mondjesmaat gebruikt. Daar waar ze wel beschikbaar zijn, weten medewerkers niet altijd goed hoe ze bijvoorbeeld een medewerkersapp optimaal gebruiken en maken consumenten weinig gebruik van bijvoorbeeld loyalty apps op hun smartphone. Daarnaast bestaat er bij veel retailers wel de wil om te innoveren, maar moeten er eerst barrières worden beslecht. De beschikbare technologie moet zich liefst al in een testsituatie hebben bewezen en men heeft behoefte aan praktische handvatten hoe de technologie optimaal in te zetten. Om tot innovatie in de branche te komen is het daarom nodig om in samenwerking met enkele innovatieve retailers, technologiebedrijven en kennisinstellingen de innovatie markt-fähig te maken. Dit project heeft als doel om een bijdrage te leveren aan de duurzaamheid van de fashion-industrie door relevante klanttechnologie geschikt te maken voor marktintroductie, alsmede de toegevoegde waarde van deze technologie te onderzoeken voor de branche.
Various companies in diagnostic testing struggle with the same “valley of death” challenge. In order to further develop their sensing application, they rely on the technological readiness of easy and reproducible read-out systems. Photonic chips can be very sensitive sensors and can be made application-specific when coated with a properly chosen bio-functionalized layer. Here the challenge lies in the optical coupling of the active components (light source and detector) to the (disposable) photonic sensor chip. For the technology to be commercially viable, the price of the disposable photonic sensor chip should be as low as possible. The coupling of light from the source to the photonic sensor chip and back to the detectors requires a positioning accuracy of less than 1 micrometer, which is a tremendous challenge. In this research proposal, we want to investigate which of the six degrees of freedom (three translational and three rotational) are the most crucial when aligning photonic sensor chips with the external active components. Knowing these degrees of freedom and their respective range we can develop and test an automated alignment tool which can realize photonic sensor chip alignment reproducibly and fully autonomously. The consortium with expertise and contributions in the value chain of photonics interfacing, system and mechanical engineering will investigate a two-step solution. This solution comprises a passive pre-alignment step (a mechanical stop determines the position), followed by an active alignment step (an algorithm moves the source to the optimal position with respect to the chip). The results will be integrated into a demonstrator that performs an automated procedure that aligns a passive photonic chip with a terminal that contains the active components. The demonstrator is successful if adequate optical coupling of the passive photonic chip with the external active components is realized fully automatically, without the need of operator intervention.
