On July 27, a flight has been carried out from Lelystad to Ensched by a test plane. Source: Telegraaf

A single-engined plane is used to test environment-friendly alga fuel. Pilot is Cappelle has a fly school in Groningen and recently a settling in Enschede. In a number of weeks he hopes to cross the ocean with the Antonov. See also RTV-oost.

The 3rd class of the summerschool by Roel Pieper focused on the transition from business idea to the real market.

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In no time, the maximum number of applicants for the VentureLab summerschool was reached. Nearly 30 Phd- and masterstudents from the University of Twente, from 15 nationalities and a variety of science backgrounds, applied. The VLT summerschool aims for its summerstudents to acquire competences on Marketing, Strategy, Organisation, Finance, Technology management, Personal and Team skills and define a business model for business creation out of (their ) technology. They learn from VLT’s starting entrepreneurs and in their turn are part of the thinktank for VLT entrepreneurs.

On July 7, VentureLab welcomed the summerstudents to their first training. Together with the Venturelab entrepreneurs they worked on human resource and financial accounting.

On Monday, June 29, the first group of four entrepreneurs presented their businessplans to a business panel. Rob Wermenbol of Amitek Model Factory kicked off with his businessplan for 3-d printed models, usable for any kind of market and application. Showing a variety of models, Rob illustrated how his company might radically change the concept of design and production, in terms of flexibiltity, investments and time-to-market. Next came Paul Jenkins and Elisa Gielen, who presented “seeEzi”, their video-based platform for knowledge exchange, facilitating contacts between laymen and experts, in healthcare and business consulting to begin with. Frans Paalman of Frawi, introduced his budding business idea with a BMW-video on the garage mechanic of the future. However, Frans aims at facilitating private persons to do car maintenance. Finally the floor was for Dennis Doubovski with a sophisticated presentation of Bestelplatform, a solution for the problem of incompatible ordering systems, that many customers and suppliers have.

The panel scored the entrepreneurs on their management teams, their individual qualities, their business models and their products. But of course, the entrepreneurs also got lots of good advice from Sascha Mengerink, Roel Pieper, Geerhard Huising and Vincent Heutinck, and -especially for Frans- Wouter Koenderink.

Venturelab’s programme manager Rob van Lambalgen and his wife Marjan hosted the first (and from now on it will be an annual VLT tradition, Rob promised!) BBQ for VentureLab’s entrepreneurs, coaches, team members and their partners. It was a warm and wonderful evening in a beautiful environment. See the photo album for an impression.

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