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29 Oct 2014

YP Your Partner new member Innovatiecluster Drachten

Since Tuesday, October 28, Innovatiecluster Drachten has added another company: YP Your Partner. By being part of the Innovatiecluster Drachten, YP Your Partner, in collaboration with the municipality of Smallingerland and the province of Fryslân, helps to put the Drachten region on the map as innovative, technological and knowledge-intensive. Putting on…

October 9, 2014

Tenth competitor Innovatiecluster Drachten

Since Friday, the Innovatiecluster Drachten has added another company: Science & Technology Corporation, or S&T for short. This company has recently been established in Visvliet (between Grijpskerk and Buitenpost), in the same building as KXA Software Innovations. S&T helps other high-tech companies with the development of systems and processes and reliable software solutions. It…

October 1, 2014

Roundtable discussions during Promotion Days Northern Netherlands

We cordially invite you to a round table discussion with members of the Innovation Cluster about the challenges surrounding the development of new products. The talks will take place on November 4 and 5 from 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Martiniplaza Groningen during the Promotion Days Northern Netherlands. Developing products is complex. The cluster of…

September 29, 2014

4000 visitors for the Innovatiecluster Drachten

On Saturday 20 September there was an open day at the Philips site in Drachten. During this day there was the unique opportunity to introduce the visitors to the Innovatiecluster Drachten. Companies such as YP Your Partner, Delta Instruments, Whisper Power, Variass and Neopost managed to present themselves in a beautiful way. In front of…

September 8, 2014

Neopost and Delta Instruments nominated for the Enterprise Award 2014.

Being a member of the Innovatiecluster Drachten means working together, but sometimes also being in competition! Both companies are prominent members of the Innovatiecluster Drachten and are now in the running for the so-called Innovation Award. The Entrepreneur Award Drachten | Smallingerland will take place on October 27 in Schouwburg de Lawei. The presentation is in the hands of the…

September 8, 2014

Session: Serious Gaming

On Wednesday September 3, a second session was held between members of the Innovatiecluster Drachten and 4 new Serious Gaming companies from the Northern region. The subject was matchmaking in the field of product applications and innovation processes. The idea is that various companies in the cluster are on the eve of applying this type of ICT…

September 3, 2014

ICD Ambassadors Day 2014

On August 28, 26 Innovation Cluster Ambassadors met to kick off the new school year. It was the first time that all companies in the cluster came together to discuss the topic of Education. In total, all companies now have more than 40 Ambassadors. Ambassadors are “engineers for the classroom”. Sometimes, as a permanent subject teacher,…

June 30, 2014

FlexInSole wins Inventor Competition 2014

Last Tuesday, the Innovatiecluster Drachten organized the Inventors Competition for the second time together with the municipality. The assignment was: design a product that reduces stress. Thirteen entries competed for the main prize of €3,000. The jury unanimously chose the FlexInSole from a group of students from Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen. The FlexInSole is an insole that…

June 30, 2014

Industry and institutions will work together on High-Tech in the Northern Netherlands

A number of enterprising parties, including Innovatiecluster Drachten, have signed a manifesto at Fokker in Hoogeveen in order to jointly give a major boost to the Northern region in the field of innovative technology. The Northern region has a large number of strong companies and research institutions active in the field of High Tech Systems & Materials (HTSM). The…