How can design-thinking connect European research to business?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 25 January 2018, Bax & Company welcomed guests, from across Europe, to take part in the workshop Future of Online Knowledge Marketplace to improve University and Industry interaction in very tangible ways. To address the ‘pains and gains’ faced by online tech-transfer and brokerage platforms such as Innoget – an online platform, designed to […]
City2City Learning: The Climate Resilience Accelerator
Cities around the world are facing unprecedented challenges as they deal with climate change, rapid urbanisation, increasing disaster risks, volatile economies and environmental pressures; now climate resilience is a global priority. In order to accelerate progress towards climate resilience, collaboration, cooperation and coordination between cities is vital. To do so, Bax & Company partner Dr. […]
How can we facilitate coordination and coherence to reduce vulnerability and enhance resilience?
A UN Environment report, published on 25 January 2018, highlights the need for “unprecedented levels of coordination and coherence” in order to face twenty-first century challenges of global warming, increased carbon emissions and weather-related disasters. The report sums up the views of experts who met in Bonn, Germany, and explains the need for an integrated […]
CODEVELOPING THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE PEER-TO-PEER ENERGY TRADING MARKET IN THE NETHERLANDS
We are involved in the creation of the first ever large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading market in the Netherlands. This sustainable, customer-centric concept, is based on novel blockchain technology, which enables prosumers to not only produce their own energy, but to trade it with others. It is one of the first operational examples for Europe’s […]
UN Climate Summit COP23 – Shining the Spotlight on Climate Adaptation
Presided over by the government of Fiji, the UN Climate Summit and Twenty-third Conference of the Parties (COP 23) was held in Bonn, Germany, this year. Bax & Company’s managing partner and director of the Climate & Environment cluster, Sebastiaan van Herk, travelled to Bonn, with a team of consultants, to launch the Global Centre […]
Bax & Company present at the Smart City Expo World Congress
On Tuesday 14 November, over 700 cities from 120 countries gathered in Barcelona for The Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) to exchange knowledge on how they can make their cities smarter and more efficient. Bax & Company consultant, Claus Mullie, presented at the SCEWC, demonstrating how we help cities learn how to manage data-driven […]
COP23 official side event: What is excellence in climate adaptation?
Excellence in Climate Adaptation Many governments, NGO’s, businesses, financial organisations, knowledge institutes, and international organisations are engaged in climate adaptation projects. They face similar challenges but fail to connect adequately to each other to share knowledge and best practices. To become more effective in climate adaptation, we need to create a common understanding of what […]
Collaborative Contributions to Reducing Carbon Emissions
At Bax & Company, we’re passionate about collaborating with cities, OEMs, research institutes, universities and SMEs on high impact, Energy Efficiency projects across Europe. We’ve contributed to the reduction of Europe’s CO2 emissions, by facilitating the lightweighting of vehicles, green property renovations, recovering peatlands and developing innovative energy solutions for cars, homes and cities. Some […]
European Automotive OEMs challenge innovators to improve efficiency
Six leading European carmakers (Daimler, Volvo, Opel, Toyota, Volkswagen and Centro Ricerche FCA), four suppliers (Thyssenkrupp, Novelis, Batz, Benteler) and eight knowledge partners (Swerea, Inspire, Fraunhofer LBF, RWTH-IKA, KIT-IPEK, University of Florence, Bax & Company, Ricardo) have joined forces to form the ALLIANCE project, aimed at addressing the need for more efficient vehicles. They have […]
Can sustainability be included into property valuations?
In real estate transactions, valuers play a key role; especially, in providing independent opinions on the value of properties, providing confidence to buyers, sellers or lenders. In fact, any person or business that owns, develops or occupies a property relies on a valuer’s expertise in order to make informed decisions. A valuer can provide formal […]
Lightweight ALLIANCE at global automotive event
Bax & Company attended the Aachen Body Engineering Days 2017 to represent the ALLIANCE Project. Bax & Company joined some of the world’s most notable OEMs, including BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls Royce, Porsche, Mazda and Opel, for the Aachen Body Engineering Days; to promote the ALLIANCE Lightweight Open Innovation Challenge, ahead of its launch […]
Developing Collaborative Circular Solutions for Peatland CO2 Emissions
Globally, peatlands are responsible for almost double the amount of Carbon Dioxide emissions than aviation, according to a recent Wetlands International report. Covering 3% of the earth’s surface, estimates are that global peatlands store more than 1.4 trillion tons of carbon. Following Indonesia, the EU is the world’s second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions […]
Can Micro Energy Trading create future markets and save energy and money?
What is Micro Energy Trading? Micro Energy Trading is the buying and selling of electricity on a very local level. By combining a smart grid with renewable energy generation, landlords, householders and businesses are able to become prosumers and take ownership of their energy production and distribution. Some families with solar panels are generating more electricity […]
Over 180 Cleantech SMEs Connect to Large Corporations in One Year
Over the past year, SCALE-UP Meet the Buyer events have given innovative SMEs the opportunity to present their cleantech solutions to large corporate buyers such as Siemens, Skanska, Anglian Water and the British Antarctic Survey. SCALE-UP partners have organised 10 Meet the Buyer events in the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. These events have […]
Sustainability, an important factor in real estate valuation assessments?
RICS, the world’s leading professional body for valuers, has released an update of global standards, the so-called Red Book. The RICS standards are used by investors, mortgage lenders, portfolio managers and the public sector across the world to make valuations consistent. The new version of the Red Book, now available for public consultation, highlights the increasing […]
Low Carbon land use practices connect Europe
One third of CO2 emissions worldwide are caused by agriculture, which when put into perspective is greater than all land, air, and sea transport combined. Therefore reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint is essential to countering climate change. New land use practices such as rewetting drained peatland at specific sites across Europe will transform high emitting lands […]
Are you following Open Innovation Best Practices?
Open Innovation best practices can inspire you, make you re-think your work, and ultimately improve your business. Innovation challenges the ‘business as usual’ mindset and it is under these circumstances when best practices are essential. However, best practices are not easy to find. This is why in Science2Society we are making sure that everyone can […]
The emerging complexity of climate adaptation governance in a globalizing world
The International Scientific Workshop “The emerging complexity of climate adaptation governance in a globalizing world”, organized by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is going on this week in Stockholm. The aim of this event is to explore governance of climate adaptation beyond the national level. Participants will discuss new forms of adaptation governance, its consequences […]
City to City learning to cater city needs to climate adaptation
Today, Prof. Chris Zevenbergen (UNESCO-IHE) will be at the Dresden Nexus Conference to present results of a preliminary study on City to City learning conducted together with Bax & Company partner Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk and Wolfgang Haupt (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila). The full abstract is available here. During the Dresden Nexus Conference, policy- […]
Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation: accelerating climate adaptation and resilience
In the build-up to COP23 November this year, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) organises the ‘Bonn Climate Change Conference‘ from 8 to 18 May 2017 in Bonn, Germany. The conference focuses on the Paris Agreement work programme, in particular on measures and progress on climate mitigation and adaptation. Next Monday 15th […]
Major milestone reached in automotive lightweighting research
September 2016 marked a major milestone in automotive lightweighting research in Europe, with the completion of the 4-year R&D work of the EU-funded ALIVE and ENLIGHT projects (FP7 programme). At the same moment, in October, the new large-scale H2020 project “ALLIANCE” launched which will carry on the advancement of innovation in this field for the […]
City-to-city learning on disaster risk reduction; call for proposals.
On 30 November the European Commission, UNISDR and UN Habitat launched a call for proposals via the Resilience City Connect market place (RCC). FYI, below the communication from Making Cities Resilient Campaign. The city-to-city learning exchange approach and service were developed and tested by UNESCO-IHE and Bax & Company (see brochure here) and we have been involved in […]
Create Blue-Green Cities through Social Innovation and International Collaboration
Blue and Green Infrastructures (BGI) comprises an approach to climate resilience for cities that mimics nature’s potential to deal with flooding. BGI supports existing grey infrastructure to cope with extreme weather events (reducing flood risk by 30%) and improves urban liveability. Research (TEEB, 2015) shows that BGI benefits outweigh costs by a factor of 2 […]
Innovation session on Smart Cities through data re-use
Bax & Company organised an open innovation event in the inspiring DataLab Amsterdam, dedicated at facilitating peer-learning among 9 large and mid-sized cities in Northern Europe on Smart City concepts (e.g. Smart Mobility, Smart Parking etc.) to improve cities’ public service delivery. The cities had two constructive days to actively share ideas, learn from each other, […]
Lenders and investors start to value energy efficiency in housing – perhaps more so than owners and tenants do
As part of the REVALUE project, Maastricht University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brought together lenders, investors and researchers to discuss policies and trends in investments in green housing. A picture emerged of careful investors paying more attention to energy quality of their stock than the actual tenants do. While practitioners confirm energy efficient […]
Creating a Global Center of Excellence on Adaptation; preparing COP22 and Climate summit
As requested by UNEP and on behalf of the Dutch government, Bax is supporting the creation of a Global Center of Excellence on Adaptation. State of the Art knowledge is to be deployed effectively to help the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement through Creation Action (upstream) and Managing Direction (downstream), developing and financing climate […]
The impact of 3D printing
3D printing is a transversal technology that presents new possibilities, constitutes a potential enabler for new business and productive models and has the potential to change and often disrupt the status quo in many different industries. 3D printing is flexible, versatile, has the potential to transform logistics and enables mass-customisation of products – but companies […]
How can Europe take the global lead in automotive composites: a vision by Suschem’s stakeholders?
The market for global automotive composite materials is forecast to reach €3.72 billion by 2017. This represents a real opportunity for the European chemical and composites industry. The automotive industry faces a new challenge aligning material properties, product design and production or assembly processes – especially in larger volume production series vehicles – but could […]
A new model for innovation through Open Data in cities
Over the last decade, recognising the innovation potential, we have established a strong track record in various Smart sectors such as energy efficiency, city resilience and industry. Innovation within these themes has pushed them closer to become mainstream. In the last three years, authorities at all levels realise that data is a key asset and […]
RIS3 communities: a big opportunity for R&D in Catalonia
RIS3CAT strategy: context Last March 2014, the Catalan government presented in Brussels the RIS3CAT: the Research and Innovation Strategy for the Smart Specialisation of Catalonia. This document aims at identifying top priority areas of economic activity for the region, a prerequisite set by the European Commission to the regions for receiving the ERDF funds (assessed […]
