Yesterday I received some interesting news about HTC, which for a change isn’t about one of their latest devices, like the sponsorship announcement of Team Columbia-HTC just before the start of the Tour de France 2009 earlier this year.
However HTC now teams-up with Wallpaper* and sponsors the Wallpaper* design awards 2010, as you can read on [...]
On October 21st 2009 student association Stress, from the faculty School of Management and Governance, organized a symposium with the central theme ”Vision on the Future“.
According to the symposium leaflet the goal is “to give you as a student an impression fo what the market will look like in five years. [...] most students will be looking [...]
Back in June 2009 I visited the “Business Model Innovation Knowledge Fair and Book Launch” in Amsterdam, where a first (prototype)version of the Business Model Generation (hand)book was launched. Furthermore I was able to meet the book-team as well as over 100 business model practitioners from 13 different countries there.
Last week I was very excited, [...]
Constanze Roman -a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team- has published an interesting article on the Windows Mobile Team blog with the title: “Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile?“
Although I’m not a developer, nor having a formal Information Technology & Computer Science education, I would like to have a detailed look at this [...]
A few weeks ago Jason Langridge wrote an article on his blog “Online Mind Mapping” which caught my attention and covers a great online service for Mind Mapping called MindMeister.
Last year I attended a traning of Marc Tigchelaar which I covered in the article: “Speed reading, mindmapping & braintraining“, and during the recent “Business Model Knowledge Fair & Book [...]
Perhaps some of your remember the acquisition propositions of Microsoft to Yahoo! earlier this year, which in the end didn’t result in Microsoft buying Yahoo!. However yesterday the news spread very fast on the web that both companies announced a long-term agreement in the Web Search segment.
“Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the [...]
About a month ago I have written a short article about the launch of the VentureLab program in the article: “VentureLab Twente for high-ambition techno starters !“
This article will cover the first VentureClass in which Professor Staffan Gullander discusses the importance of supply chain design in new business development, as well as a few other [...]
A little more than a week ago, from November 24th – November 28th, I attended the much anticipated fifth European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship and Open Innovation organized by Ronald Wolf (Philips) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University).
The beautiful main location was the Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne (Netherlands), while some sessions took place at the Philips High Tech Campus (Eindhoven).
The two [...]
Because of the 40th anniversary of our faculty School of Management and Governance at the University of Twente, a symposium was organized with two very interesting keynote speakers: (1) Charles Landry and (2) Professor Henry Chesbrough
1. Charles Landry: Intercultural cities and Innovation
During this first keynote session, Charles Landry provided the attendees with an exciting [...]
The University of Twente organized a two-evening-session “braintraining”, -on the 19th and 20th of November 2008-. I was free to attend the training, and I learned a lot about psychological and neurological processes in our brain.
The trainer is Marc Tigchelaar, who is a dyslexic student himself, has started a consulting firm on the topic op [...]
