Description

Innovation Cluster Drachten is an international working ecosystem of collaborating High Tech companies and knowledge institutions in the Northern Netherlands that are at the forefront of innovations and competitive in the global market. The 18 participating companies work together on the solutions to the big challenges of the future. They call this the Big 5 of High Tech: 3D metal printing, Remote sensing and big data, Robotics, Visual intelligence and All electric propulsion. This is possible because of the unique collaboration of the R&D departments, in which mutual competition has given way to strengthening each other. The result is more than 50 new product introductions per year worldwide. Working at Innovation Cluster Drachten means contributing to solutions for the future. Over 3,500 motivated professionals, from university graduates to production workers, have chosen a career in the High Tech industry. Together, they see it as a challenge to use each other's knowledge to develop high-quality and unique products, which they also produce themselves. This is possible because competition has made way for mutual reinforcement.

Mr Piet Fellinger is procurement manager at Neopost Technologies and one of the initiators of the Innovation Cluster. He will talk in a fascinating way about the origin of the cluster, the results so far and the opportunities for technicians such as Engineers

Location

Motel van der Valk Drachten

Organiser

Northern Region

Name and contact details for information

Gijs Breedveld

noord@kivi.nl