A subsidy of €2.4 million has been awarded to VentureLab Twente by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the provinces of Overijssel and Gelderland within the EU-funded ‘GO Gebundelde Innovatiekracht’ programme.

The Twente region and Innovation Platform Twente are also expected to contribute to VentureLab Twente to bring subsidies to €3.5 million.

The subsidies mean that costs for participants can be kept as low as possible!

See also a full news item on the University of Twente site (soon available in English) and the specific press section here.

VentureLab Twente has planned to start training a new group of entrepreneurs in January, so
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A panel of experienced business incubator managers has selected the most recent recipients of the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator designation from November 2009.

And… the VentureLab Twente Incubator hereby has been granted this Soft Landings designation for the first time!

Now in its fifth year, the Soft Landings program recognizes incubators with proven ability to help nondomestic companies enter the incubator’s domestic market.
NBIA’s Soft Landings designations are effective for two years; programs must reapply biennially for continuing designation. Read the rest of this entry →

There’s a new podcast available with Roel Pieper! Because the podcast is in Dutch, the rest of this news-item is also in Dutch.

Roel pieper geeft tips & trics voor investeren en ondernemen in het huidige financiele klimaat.
Naar aanleiding van de presentatie die hij gaf aan de VLT-entrepreneurs, benadrukt Pieper in een ruim 10 minuten durende podcast nog eens de (on)mogelijkheden van deze tijd.

Hij gaat hierbij in op een veelvoorkomende misvatting van startende ondernemers en investeerders: je ontkomt er niet aan om vroeg of laat een keer goed op je bek te gaan!

Daarvan uitgaan is een begin, maar wat doe je vervolgens precies om er rekening mee te houden?…
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VLT-entrepreneur Maria Lijding is with her ‘Smart Signs Solutions‘

one of six finalists in the
Young Technology Award competition.

  Maria Lijding started her company in November 2008. As the company name suggests, Smart Sign Solutions is all about signs and finding your way in buildings. Seems nothing special, right?

But, the signing and “wayfinding” is done in a whole new way:
it’s all personal!
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