Micro-cogeneration (micro-CHP) is a new technology at the household level, producing electricity in cogeneration with domestic heating, thereby increasing the overall efficiency of domestic energy production. We have developed a prototypical agent-based simulation model for energy technologies...

There is considerable scope for energy efficiency improvements to the housing stock in the Netherlands. Although, economically, there are many technological opportunities available, the Dutch built environment has difficulty to harvest this potential. This paper applies a sectoral innovation...

Internationally co-authored papers are known to have more citation impact than nationally co-authored paper, on average. However, the question of whether there are systematic differences between pairs of collaborating countries in terms of the citation impact of their joint output, has remained...

This paper investigates the effects of the changing institutional environment on academic research practices in the case of Dutch animal sciences. The two most important changes in the Dutch agricultural research system in the past few decades have been shifts in the available funding and the...

In this paper, we strive to unravel in how far current practices of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) are suitable to guide health policy decisions about personal health systems (PHS). We focus on the implicit representations of users and their position in the innovation process that underly...

While numerous academic studies sufficiently bond the emergence of (radical) innovations to macroeconomic growth (Plosser (1989); Freeman and Perez (1988); Mansfield (1983); Mensch (1979); Jovanovic and Lach (1997); Giedeman and Simons (2006)), the competitive mechanisms that influence small...