The ten winners of the prestigious Academic Startup Competition 2020 have
been named as Bimini Biotech, DeNoize, Digi.Bio, IamFluidics, Kaminari Medical, Lusoco, NC Biomatrix, Taylor, uCrowds, VanBoven.
Check out the website www.academicstartupcompetition.nl for more information about the competition and the startups.
I am looking forward to following how these entrepreneurs help make the world a little better. As innovative startups, they help ensure the Netherlands is a world-beater when it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, and that we can continue to develop smart solutions, create jobs and strengthen our economy. They embody the slogan “for every global challenge, there is a Dutch solution”
The Academic Startup Competition is an initiative of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centres, (NFU), Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI) and Techleap.nl, and is supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. The aim of the competition is to put valorisation and academic spinoffs in the spotlight.
These winners and this competition show that the Dutch academic startup ecosystem is bursting with energy and inventiveness. The time is now ripe to further professionalise the transfer of expertise in the Netherlands. Knowledge is not enough in itself. In the end, it is the market that decides if a company is successful, not the technology, and this is why you need entrepreneurship as well.’
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