Next Business
We offer innovative entrepreneurs (Next Business) access to a dynamic ecosystem. By connecting entrepreneurship to high tech innovation and employing our Novel-Tools, we help them to become game changers.
Develop new businesscases
With Next Business, we facilitate collaborations between knowledge institutions, SMEs and corporations in order to develop new business cases. The focus is primarily on the industrial sector, where innovation leads to economic growth. Smart Industry for instance, offers a world of opportunities for companies in the HTSM sector and is well suited to the region's knowledge positions. The industrial sector in Overijssel is responsible for more than 70,000 jobs. The HTSM sector, which partially overlaps with the industrial sector, supports nearly 44,000 jobs. One job in the (smart) manufacturing industry leads to two jobs in other sectors, which is how Novel-T is helping to improve employment in the region.
Joint innovation opens new markets
Our Novel-Tools connect companies and organisations so that together they can innovate, make tremendous technological strides and tap into new markets by, for instance, harnessing radar technology for coast and port inspection or applying three-dimensional weaving techniques to the production process of water treatment filters. That's how innovative production techniques can add new features to existing products. Together, we're changing tomorrow's economy.

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Stories

Innovation requires leaders with vision, guts and the means to get going
To ensure future success, entrepreneurs will have to draw on a different source. It's common sense, really: try to keep the pace if you want to stay in the race.
Read moreRolling up my sleeves as an innovation broker!
Since mid-December 2017, Bert Otter has been allowed to call himself innovation broker of Novel-T, together with three other colleagues. In this column, he shares his experiences so far.
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Events

Techmed workshop: Production medical devices in low quantities
24-04-2018 13:00Are you (intending on) running a small business in the medical devices industry? Currently struggling with the challenges of the Medical Device Directive or ISO13485 to produce small amounts of medtech products? Join the Techmed workshop on April 24: Production medical devices in low quantities.
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Blockchain Technology Meetup Twente
26-04-2018 16:00Do you want to learn more about the hot item Blockchain Technology? Do you want to discover the advantages as well as the dangers of it? Then find out all about this subject during our workshop!
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