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Since January 2020, BISCI participates on behalf of Maastricht University in the research project Holland Robotics Logistics.

Research has shown that women are more heavily impacted by the corona crisis than men. In a timely response to this challenging reality, the Elinor Ostrom Fund five grants to female academics as part of its semi-annual grants programme. We reached out to the most recent grant winners to learn more...

For BISCI, 2021 will be a year full of opportunities to contribute to making supply chains more sustainable and digital.

In order to keep COVID-19 well under control, approximately 70% of the Dutch population would need to be vaccinated. There is sufficient support among the Dutch population for the introduction of a vaccination certificate to actively encourage people to be vaccinated. A vaccination certificate would...

Diogo Cotta, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, School of Business and Economics, gives a brief introduction to his roles and resposibilities within UM and BISCI. He explains in brief the research that he is currently working on, the current project at BISCI and living in the Netherlands...

Mark Steins is SBE’s first ever PhD in our new double PhD programme established with our esteemed partner QUT (Queensland University of Technology). As part of his research, Mark will carry out part of his research here in Maastricht, observing social robots in restaurants and in aged care centres...

Operational excellence and product leadership depends on regular first-hand information exchange with the best suppliers on the market and on a deep understanding of the world beyond these suppliers. For 2021, let us take inspirtaion from Paul Bocuse and his procurement principle.

The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated digitalisation, intensifying considerations of how society should deal with the rapid increase of technology-driven change. It is for this reason that Dr. Marie-Christine Fregin and her colleagues joined forces with industry and policymakers to...

Prof. Dr. Frank Rozemeijer, NEVI Professor at Maastricht University, gives a brief introduction to his multiple roles and resposibilities within UM and externally as well. He shares his experience with academia, practice and finding the right balance between the two.

Thanks to her research, Master's student in Public Policy and Human Development Riesa van Doorn has felt empowered to speak out against menstrual stigmatisation in Nepal. In this blog post, Riesa shares her own experience, tying this to her research for her master's thesis, which focuses on shifting...