Archive for 2009
Upcoming VentureClass! Presenter: Paula Englis
On Thursday October 8, Dr. Englis will give a presentation about entrepreneurial firms in the context of international strategies.
Location: “The Corridor” , Hengelosestraat 525-527, Enschede
Knowledge intensive firms face many challenges and opportunities in doing business; among these are numerous issues that arise when doing business across national borders. While traditional theories of international expansion tend to focus on incremental internationalization, her discussion centers on rapid and more innovative ways for knowledge intensive firms to expand beyond national boundaries. Using a series of case studies, her presentation will focus on opportunities and competition present in the developed world as well as the rapidly expanding opportunities in less developed and especially from “the bottom of the pyramid.”
The VentureClass is free and open to everyone. Go to the VentureClass application form to register your presence.
Reactie op de troonrede
Prof. dr. Aard Groen, wetenschappelijk directeur van het NIKOS (Nederlands Instituut voor Kennisintensief Ondernemerschap) en VentureLab Twente, reageert op de troonrede.
Volgens Groen ligt de oplossing van de crisis met name in het stimuleren van innovatie en ondernemerschap. De centrale overheid kan dat niet alleen. Zijn reactie is te beluisteren via de podcast die op zijn persoonlijke pagina staat.
Prof. dr. Aard Groen, director of NIKOS (Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship) and VentureLab Twente, reacts on the throne speech (state opening of the parliament). The full respons is on a podcast on his personal website (only in Dutch).
Gèèn link VentureLab Twente met failliet “Lab Venture Capital”
Van verschillende kanten bereikten ons vragen over de betrokkenheid van VentureLab Twente in het met geruchten van fraude omgeven faillissement van een investeerder in het Enschedese crossmediale technologiebedrijf “Service2Media”. O.a. de regionale krant TC Tubantia maakte daarvan melding. Om aan elk misverstand een eind te maken: het failliete investeringsbedrijf is “Lab Venture Capital”. Er is geen relatie tussen VentureLab Twente en Lab Venture Capital.
The past few days there were rumors about VentureLab Twente being involved in a -possibly fraudulent- bankrupty affair of an investor in a media technology company from Enschede, “Service2Media”. The news appeared amongst others in the regional newspaper TC Tubantia. However this concerns a company called “Lab Venture Capital”. To prevent misunderstanding: there are no connections between VentureLab Twente and Lab Venture Capital.
VentureCLass “do’s and don’ts of high tech venturing”
“Accept that you win and lose” came first on the list of ten tips from Roel Pieper, followed by human factors like leadership, commitment and people quality or business factors like scalablity, multi-sourcing and the value stack. Pieper was the fifth VLT VentureClass speaker. The VLT VentureClasses are monthly, public evening sessions by internationally renowned speakers, on entrepreneurship-related themes. Pieper’s audience, well over 60 people, hung on his lips. Pieper also stressed the importance of networks, especially now when finance from banks for starting entrepreneurs is hard to come by. A lively discussion, that continued at the bar, ended the evening.
VLT summerschool ‘graduates’ receive their certificates
Fifteen participants from the “VLT summerschool 2009″ received their certificates from VLT’s training director, Jaap van Tilburg. Most summerschool students are international PhD students from the University of Twente. They were trained during 11 subsequent sessions in important topics such as managing people, principles of financial accounting and technology marketing & IP. Their ‘masterpiece’ is a business model, which they presented to VentureLab’s entrepreneurs during the final session of August 18.
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