Dare to Cross Over! 2017 is coming up on June 8th. The event is all about graduate students showing their creativity and innovation through the interdisciplinary research projects they are working on, that can benefit society. “The mission of a good university is to train students for certainty and to educate them for uncertainty. This is what Dare to Cross […]
Read moreOn June 1st and 2nd, the fourth edition of Social Enterprise Days will be hosted! This year’s theme: Towards an inclusive agenda. Themes like “how much impact does your organiation have on society? And how can you create more impact in the future by collaborating?, will be discussed. It is expected to be the biggest edition so far (around 1000 […]
Read moreUtrechtInc is de plek om als ondernemer of wetenschapper een succesvol bedrijf te starten. Grijp deze kans om in een van de programma’s van UtrechtInc te komen die je verder gaan helpen in het start-up proces. UtrechtInc heeft al 157 startups zoals SnappCar, Argen-X en Stucomm ondersteund met financiering, huisvesting, programma’s, klanten en advies. De volgende onderneming kan die van jou zijn! […]
Read moreEen interessante vacature bij Plan Einstein (onderdeel van Social Impact Factory): Projectmanager ondernemend programma Plan Einstein biedt vanuit de kracht van verschillende samenwerkende partijen een attractief programma rondom samen leven, samen leren voor asielzoekers in de opvanglocatie aan de Einsteindreef en bewoners in de wijk Overvecht. Heb je affiniteit met sociaal ondernemen en de werkwijze van de Social Impact Factory? […]
Read moreFemale Ventures has been active in Delft & Rotterdam and is now coming to Utrecht! Female Ventures Utrecht focusses on women living/working/studying in the Utrecht area to empower them professionally. On May 22nd, the first event will be hosted. Inspiring first event for ambitious women who want to grow (further) professionally and want to help others grow. We will also […]
Read more–Dutch Only– Gezocht: (student) developers, (IT-) professionals, data scientists, designers en andere innovators die met hulp van experts maatschappelijke uitdagingen willen oplossen op het gebied van mobiliteit en vrije tijd en mooie prijzen willen winnen, t.w.v. €7000. De hackathon is gericht op open data of ANWB-data in te zetten voor de oplossing van bijvoorbeeld het fileprobleem of nieuwe apps voor fietsliefhebbers. Tijdens de […]
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On June 1st, the Amsterdam edition of TechSummit is hosted! This year’s theme is “Building Reliability at Scale”. The one-day tech event offers some impressive keynote sessions, from companies including Pinterest, Adyen, Blendle & Computest. The speakers will cover tech topics like monitoring, scalability, security, engineering culture and much more. TechSummit aims at inspiring everyone interested in tech but also […]
Read moreA message from Ukukhula We’re looking for young people who want to start a business, but still lack a piece of the puzzle. Especially young people, aged 18 to 30, about to finish or having completed their higher education and consciously choosing the path of entrepreneurship. Of course, you can start your business on your own, but our program might […]
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Yesterday I was speaking at the 13th Annual OECD LEED Forum in Prague on ‘Resilient and Diversified Local Economies’, or in more old fashioned academic terms: structural economic change and productivity. It was good to be in the country of Vaclav Havel and Joseph Schumpeter (yes, he was born in Triesch – Moravia, current day Czech Republic). Both great thinkers […]
Read moreSometimes language poses substantial limitations. These weeks, the pressure to get policy on the agenda for the new cabinet formation reaches the boiling temperature – a Dutch saying with a too limited number of Google returns to be internationally valid. On top of the stack is a new human capital agenda for the Netherlands, in which education takes prime position. […]
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