Business Generator Groningen and the UMCG Innovation Center are organizing the event Science with Impact; Collaborate with Industry to Advance and Valorize your Research! The event is aimed at researchers from the UG and the UMCG who want to learn more about how to further develop their research into an innovative product by partnering with the industry, and will be held at DOT Groningen on 19 March.
The reason for organizing the event is that an increasing group of researchers is taking their research results to the market and society, either by collaborating with the industry through licensing, or by engaging in entrepreneurship themselves by founding a start-up.
Program
- 1.30 – 2 p.m. Doors open
- 2 – 2.15 p.m. Word of welcome by moderator of the day Desiree Hoving, Business Generator Groningen Director Anne Been and UMCG Innovation Center Director Martin Smit
- 2.15 – 3 p.m. Why impact matters to the Dutch Research Council (NWO), by Marcel Levi, President of the Dutch Research Council and Professor of Medicine at Amsterdam UMC/University of Amsterdam
- 3 – 3.30 p.m. Break
- 3.30 – 4 p.m. From being a professor to running a business, by Hedderik van Rijn, Professor of Experimental Psychology and founder of MemoryLab B.V.
- 4 – 4.45 p.m. Different perspectives on valorization and collaboration with industry; with Nettie Buitelaar, CEO of Biotech Booster, Peter Ketelaar, Managing Director of Life Cooperative, Wouter Nagengast, Professor of Experimental Endoscopy and Molecular Diagnostics and Principal investigator of the Optical Molecular Imaging Group, UMCG and Wiro Niessen, Professor of AI in Medical Imaging & Health, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Board Member of the UMCG and Business Generator Groningen.
- 4.45 – 5.30 p.m. Bites and drinks
