Transition to e-fuels: a strategy for the Harbour Industrial Cluster Rotterdam Background Report

The Harbour Industrial Cluster (HIC) Rotterdam faces a challenge to deliver a contribution to make transport, and especially the heavy duty modalities that are hard-to-abate, more sustainable. Rotterdam is home to the second largest fuel cluster in the world. In addition, Rotterdam is an important global logistics hub, which is of great...

Regional report : entrepreneurial ecosystems in six European countries: D4.1 Analysis of incumbent and emerging ecosystems in Finland, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom and the Netherlands

This BEYOND4.0 D4.1 report covers three research activities: firstly, it describes fourteen cases of entrepreneurial ecosystems in eight regions in six EU countries, based upon desk research into quantitative indicators, interviews and workshops with actors from the respective ecosystems. In the description, we provide information about the...

Economic burden of work injuries and diseases a framework and application in five European Union countries

Background. Estimates of the economic burden of work injuries and diseases can help policymakers prioritize occupational health and safety policies and interventions in order to best allocate scarce resources. Several attempts have been made to estimate these economic burdens at the national level, but most have not included a comprehensive list...

The value of OSH: Estimating the societal costs of work-related injuries and diseases

Insight into the financial consequences of work-related injuries and diseases provides governments, policy makers and employers’ organisations with relevant data for the purpose of developing OSH policies and agreements. Also, insight into these costs will help to raise awareness of the magnitude of the problem and will contribute to a more...

The value of occupational safety and health and the societal costs of work-related injuries and diseases

The need to improve working life in the European Union (EU) is still urgent today. In 2016, approximately 2.4 million non-fatal accidents requiring at least 4 days of absence from work and 3,182 fatal accidents were reported in EU Member States. In addition to these accident rates, figures from 2013 show that 7.9 % of the workforce suffered from...

Synthese bij het CBS-TNO rapport Compositie analyse van de Limburgse economie

Al enige jaren is de provincie Limburg actief bezig om de regio te versterken met beleid om te investeren in de regionale kennisinfrastructuur. Het doel is om hiermee een stimulans te geven aan de regionale economie alsmede aan de maatschappelijke uitdagingen waarvoor Limburg zich gesteld ziet. Wat dit laatste betreft gaat het onder andere om de...

Compositie analyse van de Limburgse economie

Op verzoek van de Provincie Limburg hebben het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) en TNO een compositie-analyse uitgevoerd van de Limburgse economie. Er wordt een integraal beeld geschetst van de economische ontwikkeling, de regionale economische structuur en specialisatie en van innovatie-inspanningen en -prestaties van bedrijven. Dit...

Op weg naar een grondstoffen-strategie. Quick scan ten behoeve van de grondstoffennotitie

Biotische grondstoffen zijn niet schaars, maar vruchtbare landbouwgrond wel. Toenemende vraag naar grondstoffen zonder toename van vruchtbare grond leidt op termijn tot schaarste. Dat is de kern van de bijdrage die CE Delft heeft geleverd aan de Grondstoffennotitie die het kabinet deze zomer naar de Tweede Kamer heeft gestuurd. CE Delft heeft...

Aligning and transforming SUT and IO data for the EU27 and RoW countries in EXIOPOL

The main objective of the integrated project EXIOPOL (A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis) is to set up a multi regional environmentally extended input-output database. Consistent supply and use tables of the EU27 countries and 16 selected Rest of the World countries will...