{"id":70489,"date":"2016-09-12T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T08:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=70489"},"modified":"2016-09-12T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T08:50:55","slug":"daan-kersten-eindhoven-is-high-tech-capital-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/daan-kersten-eindhoven-is-high-tech-capital-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Daan Kersten: Eindhoven is High Tech Capital of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you go abroad and ask the experts, there is no discussion:\u00a0Eindhoven\u00a0is the high tech capital of Europe. According to Daan Kersten, cofounder and CEO\u00a0of Additive Industries<\/a>, the city has established itself\u00a0firmly on the high tech map of the world. “If we say we come from Eindhoven and we are developing a complex machine, then nobody has any doubts. Everybody understands that if you are a manufacturer from Eindhoven, your fundament\u00a0is good.”<\/p>\n

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Daan Kersten is columnist for E52. In a weekly column “Tomorrow is Good”, he writes about a better future. He does so, alternating with Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch and Carlo van de Weijer.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Daan Kersten spoke about his experience of the last two years at\u00a0the farewell party of Mayor Rob Gijzel, last Friday. Kersten praised the role Van Gijzel\u00a0played in the development of Additive Industries. “If he’s looking for a job, he could easily\u00a0start to work in sales for our company. Besides, he has the key to our front door, and he knows our story quite well, so if he wants to\u00a0guide his guests through our factory, he’s very welcome to do so.”<\/p>\n

The success of Additive Industries is very much related to\u00a0the city. Here in Eindhoven, we find it quite normal that you find technology on every street corner, Kersten says. “Technology in its\u00a0most complex shapes. You can find specialists in areas you have never heard of. Precisely this\u00a0ensures that we\u00a0can gather people with\u00a0all sorts of expertises together\u00a0on very short notice,\u00a0and thus can solve the most complex problems quite fast.”<\/p>\n

But that’s not the whole story of Eindhoven’s success, says Kersten. “It can only work this\u00a0well because we are able to use the knowledge that companies like ASML and Philips have built up over the years. This collaboration is\u00a0only possible if you have something in common. And that’s the Philips DNA, it unites us all. In our region people are all trained in the Philips way,\u00a0they\u00a0have learned the processes like\u00a0Philips conceived them, which is something that Philips has done incredibly well. If we want to do a project with people from different companies in the region, you don’t have to waste time on agreeing on how to make drawings, or what models to\u00a0use, because they already know. And that means you can start building\u00a0very quickly.”<\/p>\n

Moreover, it’s not only work that binds the technicians in Brainport region. “We all know that – after we have talked very deeply with each other over technology – we like to grab a beer together. So every Friday afternoon, with all the\u00a0partners and suppliers with whom we have been developing our machine, we meet in the Ketelhuis. We even ask our foreign clients to make the appointments on Fridays, so they can enjoy this beer with us.”<\/p>\n

Picture: Daan Kersten (left) and his business partner Jonas Wintermans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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