Vincent Albers

Current

• Owner & co-founder at Scienceofthetime.com
• Lid Examencommissie MCB at NIMA
• lecturer at Institute for Media and Information Management (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)

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Education

• Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Vincent Albers’s Summary

Lecturing and brainstorming with companies about (cool mentality) trends and what these mean to:
a) loading brands with the right kind and the rigth dose of cool-ness
b) communication concepts and
c) product development

Research: we search the globe for consumer trends and mentality trends. It is not the gadget that counts, but the mentality behind it. Why do consumers think it is COOL?

We use Qualitative and Quantitative research.
I love design and marketing

I love to share trendinformation to create more consumer insights.

Vincent Albers’s Specialties:

Coolhunts, Consumer Research and consumer Insights

Vincent Albers’s Experience

• Owner & co-founder

  Scienceofthetime.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Science of the Time is an international network of futurists, trend analyst and cool people world wide who look for the mentality behind all the cool gadgets and examples. What do these mean? To what magnificent academic insights can they be linked? A show of cool gadgets and examples are nice to watch. But superficial. And not what we are aiming for.
  Science of the Time is formerly known as Signs of the Time. We have engaged ourselves in exciting new international challenges, in new markets and in new Times. We have therefor strengthened our academic profile and worldwide capabilities, improved our offer to the market and embraced new partners.
  
  Learn what we and our network can do for you and your brand. Contact us.

• Lid Examencommissie MCB

  NIMA

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2004 — Present (6 years )

• lecturer

  Institute for Media and Information Management (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2003 — Present (7 years )

Vincent Albers’s Education

• Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

  drs , marketingcommunications , 1997 — 1999

Additional Information

Vincent Albers’s Interests:

trends, marketing-cases, creativity, strategy, innovations, cross-cultural sociological developments

Vincent Albers’s Groups:

•    COSTA IMC (Integrated Marketing and Communications)

Vincent Albers’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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