The Netherlands Business Support Office (NBSO) provides assistance to Dutch  companies interested in establishing or expanding their presence in the United States market. The NBSO acts as a liaison for such Dutch companies as it actively identifies and pursues opportune American business partners. Additionally, the NBSO offers its clientele information on critical business legal issues, such as Intellectual Property rights, and remains constantly aligned with the latest US business trends and models.

The Dutch language lesson offered here is an excerpt from Transparent Language's Dutch software, DutchNow!. The Dutch Phrases for Meeting and Greeting will lead you to the Dutch Dialog at the end, which shows how these Dutch survival phrases are used in conversational Dutch. Single click on the phrase to hear the Dutch pronunciation spoken by a native Dutch speaker. Take advantage of this Dutch language resource as you learn to speak Dutch!

The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is a Rice University "center" and is the University's principal organization devoted to the support of technology and entrepreneurship. To create a forum for exchange and collaboration among Rice management, engineering, and science communities; and to be a vehicle for education and support of, and advice to, inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs in their pursuit of new business concepts - culminating in new jobs, and new sources of wealth for Rice, Houston, and the U.S. economy.

Gives you all the information about the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, a yearly event in the second half of February, which shows you the significant importance of cattle and farming in the State of Texas.

Connects to the web site of the Houston Technology Center, which aids young technology companies by bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, existing businesses, and our talented professional workforce in helping Houston to expand with a new vibrant economy in key areas such as Energy, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Nano Technology, Earth Sciences and NASA-oriented technologies.

Connects to the web site of the Offshore Technology Conference, which is held annually in Houston during the first week of May. Each year, more than 1,600 companies converge on the city of Houston to showcase their products and services at the OTC.

A historic park filled with blooming tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and other spring bulbs. A feast for the eye, and so are the unique flower shows in the different pavilions. And in the midst of this magnificent spectacle of colour you will also find exquisite works of art.

Het Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme & Congressen heeft als doelstelling het zakelijk en toeristisch reisverkeer in en naar Nederland te bevorderen.