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Europe not ready for 'Good News'?
Unfortunately it appears that Europe is not yet ready for 'Good News'. The biggest issue was to find sponsors for the book. We have been trying to get some funding through the European Union, but were not successful in our efforts.
Bad news
Another issue was a lack of innovators submitting their innovations: despite the effort of many we have not been able to collect sufficient inspiring innovations to fill a book. Most of the contributions we received were from the Netherlands, but the idea of this book was not just to publish an english version of Dutch innovations. So the bad news is that we had to decide to stop the project for this year...
Good idea?
Because we regret deeply that we were unable to publish this book, we are still looking for ways to publish 'Good News from Europe' one day or another. If you have a good idea on how to get this project flying, we are open to creative suggestions. You can reach us through e-mail: .
Some good news
The good news is however, that we have collected quite some interesting innovations from the Netherlands, which will be included in the 2013 version of 'Goed Nieuws uit Nederland'.
Editors
Elke den Ouden, professor Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and strategic director of LightHouse / solution partner of the Intelligent Lighting Institute at TU/e, and owner of Elke den Ouden BV. More about Elke, click here.
Rob de Graaf, director at Innovation Leadership Network, and assistent professor at Nyenrode Business University. More about Rob, click here.
Coming up: 'Goed Nieuws uit Nederland 2013'
In the Netherlands already three editions of 'good news' have been published by PDMA.NL. Starting in 2007 the editors felt something was needed to counterbalance the attention for the problems in innovation. It ended up being a big success, and in 2009 and 2011 new collections of 50 inspiring innovations were published to enthuse others to keep innovating!
For FEI 2010 an English translation of 'Good News from the Netherlands 2009' was made for a limited number of innovations. You can download a PDF of this booklet: Click here.
If you want to find out more, or have innovations that should be included in the 2013 edition, please visit (in Dutch): www.goednieuwsuitnederland.nl.
Goed Nieuws uit Nederland 2007
Goed Nieuws uit Nederland 2009
Goed Nieuws uit Nederland 2011
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