Eric de Vries, director of 4Silence: "What makes it unique for us at this location is that we can just test along roads. We have space at our disposal here. We can test here and measure and drive past objects unhindered, but we can also actually show our products live here and we can experience them by driving past them. We are innovative, we are new, so we also want an innovative and inspiring place."

Eric on the location of Technology Base: "Twente is a very nice base of operations, because if I draw a circle around Twente, I grab the whole of the Netherlands, but also a very large part of Germany. So in that respect we are much more central in terms of area than in the west. If you draw a circle around the west, you have half a sea."