Breaking Up the Status Quo

Exploring beyond our known borders is scary. As humans we have a strong tendency to stick to what we know. Unfortunately, this way of thinking may lead to inertia and may thus slow us down as professionals and as organisations. The need to innovate may frighten you, but innovation is by far not as disturbing as most of us think.

In this webinar we will debunk some of the myths around innovation. We will demonstrate how you can improve both your personal and organisational innovative capabilities. We will show that innovation may well be the best potential response to the challenges most organisations face in these trying times.

Roy Broersma is the operational manager of the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Maastricht University. His responsibilities entail creating a strong and stable foundation for entrepreneurship education and training within Maastricht University. Furthermore, he wants to create a nurturing eco-system for young budding entrepreneurs within the university. Before he held this position, Roy was a senior lecturer in Small Business at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and a PhD candidate at Maastricht University.