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Eindhoven students surprised by high-tech cluster
The students of TU Eindhoven responded with surprise on Wednesday, March 2, to the collaboration of the high-tech companies in Innovatiecluster Drachten. Our company cluster presented itself to the technology students at the university's annual Recruitment Days. "I didn't know there was a cluster of innovative technical companies in the north of the country," was one...
Great interest from Twente students
Many students visited our stand on Thursday, February 25, during the Bedrijvendagen Twente information market. 80 of them took a chance to win our scholarship prize. In the afternoon, Jaap (left) received the "cute" Star Wars robot BB8 Sphere for his fellow student Floor. “That collaboration between companies makes your cluster much more interesting than others!”, was one...
Successful workshop financial engineering
How do you keep your starting company financially healthy and which sources of money can you tap into for this? These and other financial questions were answered by 12 start-up techno companies at Neopost in Drachten on Thursday 18 February, during the first in a series of workshops organized by Innovatiecluster Drachten. Joost Krebbekx, program manager of Innovatiecluster Drachten, introduced the technostarters to...
Visit our booth at Bedrijvendagen Twente
Visit our stand during the Bedrijvendagen Twente and win a BB8 Spehro. On Thursday, February 25, Innovatiecluster Drachten will be at the information market of the Bedrijvendagen Twente 2016 of the University of Twente. Why? Because we think we are attractive to students who want to start their high-tech career with a graduation assignment or perhaps with a job! We...
Into space with Innovatiecluster Drachten
Students of the University of Twente can take a space trip on the campus in Enschede today, during the start of the annual Business Days for students. The journey goes to the recently discovered planet 'No. 9', where Innovatiecluster Drachten has made a successful landing. At the invitation of the Twente students, the high-tech companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten present...
Students face-to-face with the most modern high tech
90 students from the Alfa College in Groningen were given the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at five high-tech companies of Innovatiecluster Drachten. They came face-to-face with the most modern technological developments. The students were taken on a High Tech Safari along BD Kiestra, Variass, Delta Instruments, WhisperPower and YP Your Partner. One...
Delta Instruments part of PerkinElmer
"This acquisition offers us good opportunities for further growth," says Anne Gerben Terpstra of Delta Instruments. High-tech company Delta Instruments has been taken over by the American company PerkinElmer. This American high-tech company is a global player in the field of health and safety for people in their living environment. With 7,700 employees, the company is...
I look for the twinkle in the eyes of customers
Constant change is now the only constant in the high-tech industry. Theun Prins, general manager and owner of YP Your Partner, responds to this with the CARS community. "What we rolled out ten years ago we can still meet today's demand." By Berend Henk Huizing Modern high tech is...
'We make the impossible possible'
Anyone looking for ultra-precise parts, components or systems 'on the edge of technology' will come to NORMA in Drachten. The former Philips toolmaker is the worldwide preferred supplier to the high-tech industry and one of the few companies that can guarantee an accuracy of (less than) one thousandth of a millimeter. By Berend Henk Huizing Proton irradiation is...