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Lucas van Grinsven is a writer/journalist who works for Reuters and worked at the Financial Times. I am currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The glamour of Consumer Electronics; clutching onto the world's biggest sporting trophy at the fringes of the IFA consumer electronics show in Germany
(Is this the closest a Dutchman will ever get to the World Cup?)

After starting my career in general news and financial reporting, I began covering technology companies and trends in earnest for Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant in 1996, focusing on consumer electronics and semiconductors and soon writing about the small but vibrant Internet community in Amsterdam. In 2000 I became a fellow at the Financial Times and moved to London where I joined Reuters as the European technology reporter later that year.

Between July 2000 and June 2007 I led a Reuters team of technology, telecoms and media reporters in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and coordinated global stories with colleagues in Asia and the United States. I grew up in and around Amsterdam, and read Dutch language and literature and argumentation theory at the Amsterdam University and also did a postgrad in journalism at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. I have Dutch, English, good German, reasonable French and basic Spanish (in case you like to send an email in a language other than English).

As the European Technology Correspondent at news agency Reuters, I became intrigued by the often very weak financial performance of electronics companies and the equally persistent optimism of the management of these companies. I started asking for explanations. What I ended up with was a lot more than I could work into a typical 600 word story for the news wire. Hence project: “Gadget Hell”.

Gadget Hell started out as an idea for a book, and it can still become one, but I’ve concluded that I can only take this project so far. What's needed is a collaborative approach, an interactive discourse which is open to everyone who has an interest in the global consumer electronics industry and is intrigued about survival strategies for it.

Gadget Hell can benefit from a collaborative approach, especially in the area of
the technology transfer between Asian companies and nations. On this website, you will find a structure and the first 50,000 words of Gadget Hell. Every chapter has key questions and issues, and you are welcome to suggest new entries, which can range from a simple query or an anecdote, to a piece of research or even an entire chapter.

There are a few rules, the most important one of which is sourcing:
  • If you write or edit: be specific where information was obtained, and your profile should give your real name, location and contact details.
  • If you do not wish to be identified, you can still contribute material by sending information confidentially to email address: lucas@gadgethell.org -- your personal details will be known only to Lucas van Grinsven.

Recent development: from 1st June 2007 I'll be director of corporate communications at Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML, based near Eindhoven -- the former headquarters of Philips. With 60+ percent market share ASML is the world market leader in chip lithography steppers, the heart of the semiconductor production process. It competes with Nikon and Canon from Japan. Customers include virtually all the chip makers, including Nr. 1 Intel Corp. and Nr. 2 Samsung Electronics.

This project continues.



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