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Knowledge Beyond Borders

Welcome to the SBE Blog, a platform for our academic community to share their expertise with people beyond their academic borders! Our authors range from students and PhDs to tenured professors and lecturers.

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Blog posts

Why the more we tackle ageing, the more it matters

Life expectancy rose greatly in the 20th century but progress has slowed as ageing-related diseases now dominate the global health burden. Research shows that reducing ageing-related diseases yields increasing returns, making healthy ageing the key challenge for future health and economic policy.
Julian Ashwin

Positive health: Beyond the token fruit basket and workplace fitness

Positive health—it’s a term that crops up more and more often, including in relation to work. But what does it actually mean, and how can employers and employees put it into practice? Professor Tim Huijts studies positive health in the workplace.
Tim Huijts

Honouring heritage, embracing hospitality: SBE alumna Yinyin’s story

  • Human interest
  • UM news
When Yinyin (SBE Alumna) walks through the doors of her restaurant on the weekend, she is not just an owner checking on operations. She is also a project manager, a strategist, a sister, and an entrepreneur balancing two very different worlds.
Oliver and Yintin from restaurant SILMO

Owners of family businesses often lack adequate preparation for their role

  • UM news
Owners of family businesses feel they are insufficiently prepared for their role. While succession planning regarding management or employee positions within the family business is carefully discussed, attention to future ownership and the associated responsibilities is often lacking.
Anita van Gils

DigiMach: digitisation for SMEs

Digitisation is becoming more and more important, including for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). DigiMach is a Euregional innovation project designed to help smaller companies in the metal sector move forward with digitisation. Maastricht University is one of the partners.
UMagazine DigiMach Anna Wilbik Rudolf Muller Rim Stroeks