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Special Focus: Dutch Industry |
The Netherlands is situated in the Western Europe, is bordering with Belgium and Germany and a big part of the country has access to the North Sea. Its geographical position helped The Netherlands in becoming an important transportation hub of Europe. The Netherlands is a relatively small country with a population of around 16,555,000. Nevertheless, the country diachronically played an important role in the political and economical status quo of the European Continent. It was a founding member of NATO and the EEC (now the EU), and participated in the introduction of the euro in 1999. The Netherlands has a prosperous and open economy, which depends heavily on foreign trade. In the period between 2007 and 2008 the Dutch economy reached a historical peak but economic growth fell sharply in 2008 as fallout from the world financial crisis constricted demand. The aforementioned situation continued and in 2009.
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Cybermind, work in and not just with Virtual Reality
Cybermind Interactive Nederland (CIN) is a Dutch company that is focused on providing generic and specialized near to Eye display solutions. It was founded on April 1997 and since then it has grown to become the leading distributor/ manufacturer in Europe for Near to eye solutions. The company excels in producing affordable high- end products to facilitate existing and emerging markets. The head offices of the company are situated in the city of Maastricht, with direct access from Germany, Belgium and France and nearby the airports of Maastricht-Aachen, Cologne, Dusseldorf and Brussels. Additionally, the sales office is situated in the city of Almere, which is a rather modern city and the place of many new businesses.
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Interview with the Founder and Technical Director of CYBERMIND BV Mr. Vincent Graham
"Cybermind is Europe's leading manufacturer of Head Mounted Display (HMD) and is currently the only manufacturer worldwide
that commercially produces high resolution (SXGA) HMD's at chip level..."
said in an exclusive interview that he gave to Epicos the Founder and Technical Director of CYBERMIND BV Mr. Vincent Graham.
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Surviving the Crisis
The Dutch labor market is one of the economic domains in the country that was hit by the global economic recession.
In 2010 the Dutch labor market will continue to feel the crisis.
Unemployment is expected to reach 8% a fact that will heavily influence the Dutch system.
That is why the Dutch authorities continue unabatedly to invest in recovery measures in order to
create the proper circumstances to emerge quickly from the crisis. Under this context in 2010 the government
will invest 416 million euros in crisis measures. In order to cope with budget setbacks, there will means for saving 430 million euros of other expenditure.
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Epicos "Project Opportunities"
Epicos "Project Opportunities" provides a unique set of online tools enabling the structure, identification and implementation of comprehensive Offsets programs, through a searchable database. By introducing different offset projects and ideas proposed by local A&D industry it ensures the optimum cost for Prime Contractors and reassures that the priorities of local industry are fully met...
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Low power data acquisition system for UAVs
A company designing, developing and supplying embedded computer hardware and software for civil and defence use is looking to expand its activities in the aerospace and defence sector and in particular in the field of UAVs. Next to standard COTS products, the company's offers a product line of customised equipment which covers a wide variety of devices and applications, also for avionic and military applications. The company has got long standing experience in developing advanced HW and SW products and equipment according to international A&D standards. In particular, the company has developed a low power data acquisition system for use in e.g. UAV. This small, embedded control system can perform several tasks in the area of health monitoring, data storage and auto pilot. It can destroy recorded data by itself (independent from software) in case of an aircraft crash, thus preventing the enemy from gathering sensitive information. In the context of this, the company would be interested in expanding the use of its data acquisition system to new UAV platforms. The system could be adapted for a specific UAV upgrade program or the development of a new UAV.
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Development of structural composite parts using over braiding technology for vehicle ballistic protection
A company, which is a dedicated manufacturer of braided and woven fibres for composite reinforcement and advanced composites applications, is interested in developing structural composite parts for vehicle ballistic protection. The company is an expert in the overbraiding manufacturing process which is particularly well suited for circumferential products like tubes or beams and offers a number of advantages in comparison with filament winding such as better crash properties and the possibility to produce more complex shapes. Furthermore, the company is well experienced in the use of Aramid fibres, which increases the energy absorption capacity as well as the damage tolerance of the components. Combining this knowledge and experience, the company is looking for a partner to develop structural composite parts for vehicle protection purposes using its overbraiding production technology.
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The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic, by Oscar Gelderblom
One of the most important economies of the first half of the seventeenth century was created by the Dutch Republic. The Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. The political and military leadership of this relatively small country of the European Continent was based on large-scale borrowing from an increasingly wealthy middle-class of merchants, manufacturers and regents. The author of this book is trying to delineate the political economy of the country from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Building on earlier scholarship and extensive new evidence it tackles two main issues: the effect of political revolution on property rights and public finance, and the ability of the nation to renegotiate issues of taxation and government borrowing in changing political circumstances.
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Multinationals and Emerging Economies: The Quest for Innovation and Sustainability (Innovation, Co-Operation and Development), byWilfred Dolfsma, Geert Duysters, Ionara Costa
One of the most significant topics of the global economy that is currently changing rapidly are multinational corporations (MNCs). The author of this book is trying to clearly illustrate a novel and profound analysis of how MNCs and emerging economies are related, and how this relationship affects the dynamics of the global economy. More particular, the authors deal with the nexus between multinationals, emerging economies and innovation from a variety of different perspectives. Innovation is regarded as a core driving force in the global economy but the authors show how it can impede as well as encourage sustainability. Multinationals and Emerging Economies brings together insights from business studies and economics, and combines concise theoretical discussion with empirical analyses of unique data.
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