On March 18 and 19 VentureLab Twente presents an Open Training to offer all potential participants a taste of what participating in the VentureLab programme would be like.

On March 18, in the evening, you are invited to the monthly network dinner and VentureClass. Both events are free of charge. You can apply here (Open Training) and here (VentureClass, with more info).

One of the highlights in the Open Training is a training on ‘Understanding Business Strategy’ by Michael Hitt. Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He has more than 260 publications including 26 co-authored or co-edited books. He has been recognized as one of the ten most cited scholars in management over a 25-year period in an article published in the 2008 volume of the Journal of Management.

In addition he is President Elect and a member of the Board of Directors for the Strategic Management Society and is a Past President of the Academy of Management, a 17,000 member international organization dedicated to the advancement of management knowledge and practice. And he is a Fellow in the Academy of Management, a Research Fellow in the National Entrepreneurship Consortium, received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and is an Honorary Professor and Honorary Dean at Xi’an Jiao Tong University.

The VentureClass of this month is also really a ‘not to miss’ -event. Speaker is Job Elders (‘64), Business Director Thermo Fisher Scientific Enschede. He was co-founder and CEO of C2V until its acquisition by Thermo in 2009. Since the mid nineties Job Elders was involved in leading positions, in start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, including Alcatel and recently Thermo. More info on the VentureClass page.