Technology Base is one of the four innovation hotspots in Twente. The business park allows entrepreneurs to establish themselves and develop and test products or systems in a protected environment. The airport, Twente Airport, is used for business and recreational air traffic and aircraft assembly and repair. A key focus for Jan Schuring is the acquisition of new business activity in the area. ‘All the planning preconditions are in place; now entrepreneurs at home and abroad still need to know that they can test and try out new inventions here and, of course, make them for the (inter-) national market,’ says Schuring. 

Jan Schuring has knowledge of the planning area, because in the period 2015-2018, as programme leader at the province of Overijssel, he was responsible for, among other things, the airport decision, the provincial area vision and advising the provincial directors of the Technology Base Joint Scheme. Mr Schuring has a career with a variety of (management) positions at ministries, several big cities and, for the last seven years, at the province of Overijssel. Jan Schuring lives in Deventer.