Projects
Innovative Entrepreneurship in Cities and Regions: Knowledge Connectivity, Incumbent Appropriation Strategies, and Multinational Firms KU Leuven
Essays on the competitive effects of bundling audit and non-audit services. KU Leuven
After the financial crisis, regulators worldwide questioned the structure of the audit market and the provision of non-audit services by audit firms. Audit firms have been blamed for their contribution to the financial crisis and regulators increased auditor regulation to enhance audit market competition as well as improve audit quality. In this project, we investigate the effect of bundling on entry in the audit market and competition within ...
New intranasal marker vector vaccine for protection of horses against equine herpesvirus 1 related and other (re)emerging viral diseases. Ghent University
This project aims to develop a live attenuated vaccine to protect horses against equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1)-associated diseases by intranasal administration. This vaccine will protect the upper respiratory tract (primary replication site of EHV-1) of horses by the activation of a local and general immunity. The proposed vaccine strain will have a plugin spot for the introduction of other foreign (viral) genes, which allows to use this ...
Service agreement for drawing up questions and answer alternatives for the exam components - generic competences - skilled - in the context of the entrance examinations doctor and dentist 2020 Ghent University
The contractor must develop the test "SKILLED" for the part of the exam part "Generic Competences (GC)" of the entrance exam.
Exam concept
VAARDIG stands for Connecting, AnAlysing, ReDerencing, Integration. SKILL is in the form of a silent text sample with text and figures. For some questions, the answer can be deduced directly from the analysis of the text or figures. For other questions, the ...
Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual. University of Antwerp
Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Methanol-diesel dual fuel injection optimization, to reduce purchase and maintenance cost of retrofit emission aftertreatment system on inland vessels Karel De Grote Hogeschool
Academic language proficiency as a predictor of academic achievement. A validity argument of a low-stakes post-entry academic reading and vocabulary screening test for first-year university students. KU Leuven
The transition from secondary to tertiary education is often conceived as difficult, into a new culture with specific rules, conventions and language use (van Kalsbeek & Kuiken, 2014; Wingate, 2015). In Flanders, where, except for Medicine and Dentistry, there are no entry requirements or selection mechanisms, the follow-up of incoming students is important. Success rates of first-year students are low, at the KU Leuven in 2019-2020 for ...