NEON is a cross-disciplinary project aimed at accelerating the energy and mobility transitions by taking an all-encompassing approach, where societal, economic and technical aspects are taken into account. Although they often go unobserved, standards are an important part of almost every technology we now use. In the context of the energy transition, standards can appear as important tools guid...

Commissioned by the VSNU, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, and the Dutch Taskforce on Responsible Management of Research Information and Data (click here for more information about the taskforce) we have investigated the feasibility of a so-called Open Knowledge Base (OKB). The metadata on scholarly communications such as publications, datasets, software, educational material...

Commissioned by the VSNU, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, and the Dutch Taskforce on Responsible Management of Research Information and Data (click here for more information about the taskforce) we investigate the feasibility of a so-called Open Knowledge Base. At the moment, Dutch universities and knowledge institutions each individually keep records of the activities of their...

Just released! The evaluation of the Dutch R&D tax credit scheme (WBSO) was sent to parliament April 11th. The full report (only available in Dutch) can be downloaded here. A summary in English is available here. Interested in this topic? Get in touch with Pim den Hertog.    ...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Dialogic investigated the impact that the use of artificial intelligence can have on education in the Netherlands. The aim of the research is to gain insight into how artificial intelligence is currently being used in education (and how it will be used) (what is the potential?), And what legal aspects play a role in that use (wha...

In December 2018, a consortium of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Dialogic, and several independent experts was selected by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission to carry out a pilot project for essentiality checks of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). More and more everyday devices rely on technical standards, such as many wireles...

During the first half of 2018, Dialogic has been assessing the outcome of the Valorization Programme. This programme was introduced by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2010 and is currently coming to an end. Over the past years, 12 consortia of universities and local partners received subsidies for improving the use of knowledge in ...

Presentations: Tommy van der Vorst: Understanding the demand for bandwidth Download the paper: Van der Vorst, T., Brennenraedts, R. (2018). Understanding demand growth for digital connectivity ...

Blockchaintechnologie heeft het in zich om onze samenleving drastisch te veranderen. Ben je ambtenaar bij een ministerie, provincie of gemeente, lid van een innovatiegroep of gewoon nieuwsgierig naar blockchain? Lees dan vooral verder, want blockchain is ook voor jou van belang. In dit artikel maken we kennis met blockchain, leggen we uit hoe de essentiële functies van de 'vertrouwde derde partij...