VentureLab Twente:
Your gateway to success in europe!

In an increasingly wired world, adding an international dimension is now within reach of any company. It is becoming almost the same to do business overseas as it is at home, keeping a few things in mind though. New countries have other cultures and regulations. To cope with these differences choosing an entrepreneur-friendly environment is crucial.

Venturelab Twente

VentureLab Twente, in the Netherlands is ready to be your Gateway to the European market! VentureLab is an ambitious pre-incubator program for high-tech entrepreneurship, embedded in a dynamic entrepreneurial environment, and includes the facilities and expertise of the University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences. For over 25 years business incubation has been a core activity of the University of Twente. Thus appropriate structures and capabilities are in place.

Key aspects of VentureLab: its one year training offer, office facilities, personal coaches, and access to a variety of networks, including high-tech, financial, business, and legal expertise.

VentureLab is executed by the dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship (Nikos). Nikos is a member of the world’s leading organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship, the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA).

And, from November 2009 Venturelab Twente Incubator has been granted the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator Designation! Now in its fifth year, the NBIA Soft Landings program recognizes incubators with proven ability to help nondomestic companies enter the incubator’s domestic market.

Acces to networks

VentureLab is embedded in a dense-networked entrepreneurial environment. Open innovation is embraced. Networks can be dedicated to business, sciences or services exclusively, or be business & science & services platforms. Focal areas in the region are health, food, materials, security and construction.
Dedicated incubators specialize in nano technology-related and ICT-related innovation and business development. Regional support organizations have longstanding experience in advising companies in the process of site selection, business or research partner selection, finding office space, production or R&D facilities, as well as on legal, financial, fiscal or funding issues, including work and residence permits.
(Kennispark, OOST NV, BTC-Twente websites)

Twente region & Enschede

The Twente region is within two hours’ drive from Amsterdam and borders on two of Germany’s largest, highly industrial regions: Nordrhein-Westfalen and Niedersachsen.

VentureLab Twente is based in Enschede, the largest city (155.000) in the region. In the past two centuries, Enschede flourished as the social and economic heart of Twente. Enschede’s architectonic wealth is a reflection of the dominant textile industry during the first half of the 20th century. The town is surrounded by country estates, woods, brooks, wooded banks and meadows. (Enschede Site)

Go to the VentureLab Soft Landing application form.