Dossier: WUR and business

First Company Day gets 400 visitors

News – 04 October 2018 10:19-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

Organisation – 21 September 2018 09:15-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

Organisation – 07 June 2018 18:00-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?

Organisation – 18 May 2018 08:00-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’

Organisation – 15 March 2018 11:26-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professor of Land Use Planning, thinks the online lecture by emeritus professor Arnold van der Valk should be withdrawn again….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

News – 22 February 2018 16:00-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

Organisation – 22 February 2018 09:53-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

Science – 11 January 2018 11:36-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?

Science – 14 December 2017 12:44-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

Organisation – 28 September 2017 09:54-The WUR Central Works Council (COR) has agreed under protest to TNO nutrition staff coming to Wageningen Campus. The council feels the ministry of…

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