Projects

The Paardenmarkt is one of the many munition dumpsites in our oceans. A few m below the seafloor, ca. 35.000 tons of WW1 chemical munition are buried. The present scientific knowledge is insufficient to make any reliable judgement on the state of the site. The DISARM project aims to address the knowledge gaps, but will go an important step further to develop an integrated scientific approach to support risk assessment and management of marine ...

The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new U+2018atmospheric tidesU+2019 science. The basic
assumption of this science was that Sun and Moon not only generate significant tidal effects in the
earthU+2019s seas, but in its atmosphere as well. These atmospheric tides (henceforth AT) were held
responsible for important weather changes, as well as for a variety of health issues in the human
body (e.g. insanity, ...

Service Science is a new interdisciplinary research field that studies management and engineering of service systems. Current research challenges include the development of a shared mental model of the service system abstraction and techniques for expressing that conceptualization in service system models. The proposed project addresses these challenges from the perspective of the Management Information Systems field of Conceptual ...

Access to existing knowledge is essential for technical change and societal progress. Prior advances are the foundation of new ideas fostering welfare and economic growth through cumulative innovation. This dissertation consists of three essays which advances our understanding of the modes, mechanisms and institutions impacting this relationship and provides large-scale econometric evidence on the empirical elasticity of knowledge access on ...

The proposed project studies the process of bridging science and innovation in particular for radical ideas. The existing industry science literature has explored how firms can benefit from science for their innovative performance. It also has studied how science can be activated to contribute better to innovation. However, there is a gap in both streams of literature as they did not differentiate between types of science and types of ...

The primary goal of this project is to understand novelty in science and inform policy and management on how to encourage novel research. There is growing concern that current peer review systems for allocating research funds fail to encourage novel research, which is often highly risky. Many funding agencies have initiated special programs to foster novelty, which is however difficult to identify and monitor. This project will develop a ...