University Of Twente

TWENTE HAS A PERFECT ECOSYSTEM FOR PIONEERS DEVISING SMART SOLUTIONS TO SOCIETY’S BIGGEST CHALLENGES.

New technology as the catalyst of change, innovation and progress in society: Twente has been particularly successful in turning newly-developed knowledge into economic activity. Nowhere in the country have so many start-ups and spin-offs arisen from universities and universities of applied sciences.

• every year, about 10% of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Netherlands come from Twente
• with over 400 companies, Kennispark Twente is the country’s largest innovation campus
• in recent years, 2000 spin-offs – and about 20,000 jobs – have come out of the University of Twente and Saxion
• in 2017, the University of Twente was voted the country’s ‘most enterprising university’ for the third time, as the Dutch university with the best record of putting scientific knowledge to social and economic use.