Blog - Author: roger

30 January 2023

You’re probably familiar with it. Pitches from young companies trying to convince their listeners that their solution is unique and will be a great success. The quality of these pitches has improved these days because of the increased attention to presentation techniques, such as timing, design of slides and one-liners. I rarely encounter pitchers whose […]

7 December 2020

Early 2020 I was invited to give a lecture at the American University of Beirut. This time it was not about innovations in agri-food, but about the question of what cluster organizations can contribute in times of economic crisis. In itself a very understandable subject. After all, the situation in Lebanon was not very flourishing […]

8 November 2020

Collaboration between parties with different assignments is always complicated. This is often attributed to conflicts of interest between partners which, especially when things get exciting, come to the surface. This is undoubtedly the case on a regular basis. However, this is not the only explanation why friction arises within partnerships. My thesis is that another, […]

26 August 2020

Each ecosystem has a geographical centre of gravity. Places such as Menlo Park, Mountain View and Palo Alto in Silicon Valley and Eindhoven and Veldhoven in Brainport, for example, are above average important for the development of these innovative top regions. From the perspective of companies in particular, the question of what the boundaries of […]