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The Faculty of Impact offers young scientists support and coaching in their ambition to increase the impact of their research, e.g. by starting their own company. The call for the first round - themed energy transition and sustainability - is now open.

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Since 2005, valorisation is the relatively young, third core task of Dutch universities in addition to education and research. The aim is to make all talent, knowledge, networks and facilities in these knowledge institutions of value to society.

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Under the stewardship of TenU, the USIT Guide has been launched last April 24. The guide offers University Spin-out Investment Terms

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With new dealterms, universities and spin-offs close 20 deals in half a year

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Opportunities abound to make better use of knowledge and innovation for major societal challenges, such as climate change, the future of healthcare or a fair data economy. That is apparent from research carried out by the Rathenau Instituut.

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Can science and entrepreneurship be combined? In recent weeks, various articles about this have appeared in the Dutch media, for example, from Reineke Timmermans (VNO-NCW), Ineke Sluiter (KNAW) and entrepreneurial scientist Hans Clevers.

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Jorg Kop is Managing Director of UtrechtInc. How does he - from his role as incubator lead - support more impact from science? And what are the opportunities?

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Varsha Thakoersing is one of the ten winners of the Academic Startup Competition who were rewarded with a trip to the United States. The CEO of the medtech startup IMcoMET has just got back. What did Varsha notice and what can we learn from her experiences?

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The (AWTI) advises several targeted measures, which will bring researchers and entrepreneurs together more often and enable them to collaborate more easily. The different needs of entrepreneurs should be taken into account more, especially the needs of SMEs.

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Spinout.fyi is a growing effort to crowdsource and openly publish spinout deal terms across every university. Spinout.fyi seeks to shed light on deal terms to catalyse a re-write of the spinout playbook in favor of future founders.

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Last Thursday, 16 March 2022, Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) and Techleap.nl organised the webinar 'Spin-off Deal Term principles'.

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This is the ambition of the Dutch universities, university medical centers and TNO. Together, the knowledge institutes are launching a plan to strengthen the national innovation ecosystem with the aim of being among the best in the world by 2030.