Projects

How can SMEs innovate sustainably while creating both economic and societal value? This research examines the opportunities, barriers and underlying motivations that influence sustainable innovation among entrepreneurs.

The Open Payments Innovation Lab investigates how open payment protocols such as Interledger enable faster, cheaper, and more inclusive payments, and what is required legally, economically, and socially to achieve this.

Three universities of applied sciences are strengthening lecturers in ‘integrated thinking & acting’, so that are better equipped to train HEO students for sustainable and future-oriented action in a changing economy.

Three universities of applied sciences are developing education that prepares HEO students for a sustainable economy in which people, society, and the environment carry at least as much weight as financial results.

Digital forms of money are transforming the global financial system. CBDCs, stablecoins and tokenised assets are also geopolitical instruments. This project examines their influence on the international monetary order.

Research by the research group New Finance into the knowledge and skills that companies require to implement circular business practices

Building an Integrated Sustainability Curriculum for Higher Professional Economic Education: research into how we prepare Finance & Control students for a world that is becoming more complex, sustainable and critical.

The New Finance research group examines alternative ownership and financing models for land, and their impact on entrepreneurship.

Research by the New Finance research group into the effects of the CSRD on Dutch SMEs.

How does our financial system really work? The Waterworks of Our Money visualises global money flows and explores alternatives for a more equitable system.

The Integrated Reporting project of the New Finance research group within the Digital Operations & Finance Centre of Expertise involves the PhD research of Egbert Willekes.

The ACES project brings together the latest knowledge and best business practices on financial and managerial accounting for Circular Economy in the context of the EU’s evolving regulatory landscape.