{"id":2210,"date":"2018-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icdrachten.nl\/geen-categorie\/kor-visscher-hightechbedrijven-zijn-cruciaal-voor-leefbaarheid-in-noord-nederland\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T07:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T07:19:17","slug":"kor-visscher-high-tech-companies-are-crucial-for-liveability-in-north-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icdrachten.nl\/en\/nieuws\/kor-visscher-hightechbedrijven-zijn-cruciaal-voor-leefbaarheid-in-noord-nederland\/","title":{"rendered":"Kor Visscher: &quot;High-tech companies are crucial for quality of life in the Northern Netherlands&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"media alignright col-xs-12 col-sm-5\"><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icdrachten.nl\/en\/upload\/cache\/C018932B7E7D0F2C84740110622D31EF.png\/\" title=\"Kor Visscher with two EDU robots\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kor-visscher-hightechbedrijven-zijn-cruciaal-voor-leefbaarheid-in-noord-nederland_5f2d275cc52a9.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kor Visscher with two EDU robots\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Kor Visscher is one of the founding fathers of our high-tech business cluster and on Tuesday, May 15, he will retire. According to him, captivating and binding talent is not only a business interest, the impact is much greater. It is crucial to the quality of life in the North. ,,Are we able to bind top talent growing up here to us? And I don't just mean top talent at the academic level, but also college graduates and professionals from secondary schools.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>shoe boxes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That the brainpower for technical innovation takes place in companies like Philips and the partners in our business cluster has long been hidden. ,,Of course, that is also down to us. These companies are all gray shoeboxes on an industrial estate. We also need to bring the world in to show what is happening.\u2019\u2019 Meanwhile, some 14,000 students annually go \u2018on safari\u2019 to discover what goes on inside those shoeboxes. ''And we have a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icdrachten.nl\/en\/girlsday-2018\/\">girls day<\/a><\/strong>, we have the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icdrachten.nl\/en\/edu-robotics\/\"><strong>EduRobotics<\/strong><\/a> done where each elementary school got a robot. It doesn't come naturally, but I do think something beautiful is now standing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Download the complete interview at the bottom of this post, written by Maarten Pennewaard, journalist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lc.nl\">Leeuwarder Courant<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-tech companies are indispensable for a solid economic base and the quality of life in the Northern Netherlands. 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