Projects
Multinational firms in (Global) Cities: Mimicry, Knowledge networks, and Economic Growth KU Leuven
This dissertation examines the dynamic interrelationship between MNEs and cities. First, it examines cities as MNEs’ foreign direct investment location choice and imitation processes within these FDI location choices. Imitation not only enhances the attractiveness of the city by contributing to the generation of agglomeration economies and by encouraging additional imitation, but it also contributes to the further development of the ...
Developing a Knowledge Network for European expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform policy making and economic sectors Flanders Marine Institute
Policy research centre sustainable materials management in a circular economy University of Antwerp
Valorization of the API economy for the Flemish agri-food sector Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The terms data economy or API economy refer to an economy in which data play a central role to develop new services and products, to find more customers and enter additional markets, or to serve customers even better. Data are then the key thus to accelerated innovation and new business models. The question in this VLAIO-COOCK project is to what extent the agri-food sector is already participating in the ...
Circular Economy MOOC: Tationales, Policies, and Business Cases for Closing Material Loops in the EU Ghent University
The main impact and added value from CE_MOOC is to deliver experience sharing and knowledge to broad KIC RM audiences, which result in increased societal awareness of raw materials, their importance to our modern economies, and the relevance of KIC activities to broader socio-political stakeholders. Service delivered by a MOOC strategy for such delivery includes that: large audiences can be reached at very low cost per learner in comparison ...
Interdisciplinary clusters as a step towards a knowledge-driven economy Ghent University
Responding to the appropriateness of the NIB, West Flanders wishes through this project to realize the necessary preparatory steps for the construction of two plants for the future, in terms of new and smart materials & products / industrial design and cleantech. It relates specifically to the development of unique economic alliances with complementary actors (businesses, government, research actors, ...), which embody a NIB in an ...
Observatory for the informal economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo KU Leuven
This research seeks to develop an observatory for the informal economy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Through a combination of survey research, focusgroups as well as literature review, the observatory aims at providing factual information about the informal economy which can be updated over time. As a start, the project will focus on the following sectors of the informal economy in the capital city of Kinshasa: transport, ...
Towards circular economy strategies for WEEE flows in Ecuador, based on integrated sustainability assessments KU Leuven
There is an increasing interest in the circular economy to tackle the challenge of finite resources for sustainable development. Ample attention is given to economic and ecological value from an international perspective, but less attention is paid to the social consequences at the local level. In many development countries the poorest families often survive by sorting garbage and selling recyclable materials. This project wants to study the ...
GDPoweR - recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy KU Leuven
GDPoweR – recovering workers’ data to negotiate and monitor collective agreements in the platform economy” is a joint research project of seven organisations in five countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Spain) aimed at supporting theme 2 of the call, the adaption of social dialogue and collective bargaining to changes in employment and work-related challenges through research, knowledge exchange and the dissemination of findings. The ...