October 5th is a day to remember: VentureLab Twente will be moving to a new address!

The new (visiting) address will be:

Hengelosestraat 525-527
["The Corridor" building]

In the new housing VentureLab will have 8 rooms for VLT staff and participants to begin with. Two of these rooms (approx 80 m2) will be workplaces for VLT-entrepreneurs. We will also have the use of a large lecture / training space of 150 m2.

So, from October the 5th, we’d like to welcome all visitors to our new ‘headquarters’!

View the map of the location of the new address below (link).
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Yesterday, on September 24th in the afternoon, there was another successful session of panel presentations! An extensive number of entrepreneurs tried in one hour to convince the panel members of the value of their evolving business plan.

Like Jos Koenders, whose aim is to contribute in the ongoing battle against climate change, by using his innovation to save energy inside houses and offices. Or Dennis Doubovski who gave an insight in his effort to bring the world wide web on a higher level, this time by creating an innovative application to make life a lot easier for both – suppliers and buyers of products on the Internet.

The comments of the panels where ranging from cheerful curiosity, to (some) firm criticism… but, of course, all in a thoughtful effort to help the entrepreneurs on their way to success!

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).

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.

VentureLab sponsored the introduction festivities by student’s association “Astatine” for new students of the University of Twente’s Bachelor Program “Advanced Technology”. An impression of a week of action, fun and dance!