Dossier - October 30, 2017
Dossier: WUR and business
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First Company Day gets 400 visitors
- Getting inspiration — that was the main reason for the 400 or so visitors to come to WUR’s first Company Day on 27 September. -
WUR pig farm Sterksel to close
- The pig innovation centre (VIC) in Sterksel will close in 2020. The experimental farm has too few permanent partners and long-term research projects,... -
University should switch to English, Wageningen Research should not
- The working language of the university should be English, but Wageningen Research should keep using Dutch. This is the advice of the... -
How many close partners do you need?
- Not all WUR’s alliances with external partners are equally important, says Bram de Vos of the Strategic Partnerships strategy group. Vos and... -
Professor: ‘Inaccuracies in controversial online lecture’
- Leonie Janssen-Jansen, professor of Land Use Planning, thinks the online lecture by emeritus professor Arnold van der Valk should be withdrawn again.... -
Restaurant of the Future a thing of the past
- The Restaurant of the Future’s 10th anniversary went unnoticed last year. Not too surprising, given that this company canteen and research... -
Row about removal of lecture resolved
- The online lecture that was taken offline after a complaint from a property company is available on YouTube again. But emeritus professor of Land Use... -
Research funds for new antibiotics
- Dutch research funding organization NWO is making seven million euros available for the development of new affordable antibiotics and alternatives to... -
Creative with data: What do you do if other people distort your results?
- Lobbying organizations, institutes, government bodies and companies have all been known to highjack Wageningen research results. And that can lead to... -
Green light for TNO move
- The WUR Central Works Council (COR) has agreed under protest to TNO nutrition staff coming to Wageningen Campus. The council feels the ministry of...