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VentureLab Twente for high-ambition techno starters !

December 9, 2008 By Remo Knops 2 Comments

If you want to start your own high-tech, high-growth business, than VentureLab Twente might be a good way to realize your ambitions as entrepreneur. VentureLab Twente is a combined project of: (1) University of Twente; (2) Nikos, Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship; (3) Saxion Hogescholen; (4) Kennispark (“Knowledge Park”) Twente. Yesterday VentureLab Twente organized a meeting on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, to present the concept, the model and underlying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Tagged With: aard groen, constantinidus, nikos, saxion, twente, University of Twente, venturelab, venturing

SYMPOSIUM: Open Innovation and Creativity in Management and Governance

November 22, 2008 By Remo Knops Leave a Comment

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 Chesbrough1. Charles Landry: Intercultural cities and Innovation During this first keynote session, Charles Landry provided the attendees with an exciting presentation with lots of interesting visual material, discussing the visionary "creative city"-approach. Not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Tagged With: Creativity, Governance, Henry Chesbrough, Journal, Management, OPEN INNOVATION, Special Issue, Symposium, University of Twente

TRAINING: Speed reading, mindmapping & braintraining

November 20, 2008 By Remo Knops 2 Comments

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 speed learning and his written several books on this topic. In the article below I will summarize some interesting direct applicable facts and techniques … [Read more...]