The program, which will take a year and a half to complete, is focused primarily on managing technological innovation. It is the result of an eight-year cooperation between the UT and Hunan University. Professors Koos Krabbendam and Jan Bilderbeek have been serving in Changsa as visiting professors for five years, and the vice-dean of the College of Business Administration earned a PhD from the University of Twente six years ago. The program is coordinated from Twente by a Chinese Business and Technology staff member, who earned her PhD from the UT last spring.
`This is an entirely new concept of international education,' declares Koos Krabbendam, `Bachelor's students (primarily) from Hunan University now have the opportunity to get a Western, internationally recognized MBA degree at their own university. The students will only be in the Netherlands for a limited time and are expected to do their thesis work in China, which significantly reduces the costs for them.'
Trans. Jeroen Latour
