Introduction to Intellectual Property

One of the most important things a start-up has is a creative, fresh and innovative idea. It’s the core around which a start-up revolves and grows. Therefore it is of the upmost importance to protect your idea! On the other hand it is also equally important to go out and pitch your company to new clients, suppliers and investors.

During the workshop Introduction to Intellectual Property Michiel Ras and Mark Jolink from EP&C Patent Attorneys will go into detail how to protect your most precious possession; your knowledge.

Michiel and Mark will explain which forms of Intellectual Property exist and will go into detail on the workings of patents. So that you can go bring your idea into the world but also keep it safe.
During and after the workshop you can discuss any questions you may have on your specfic situation / case.

Link to short bio on Michiel Ras (Dutch & European patent attorney)
Link to short bio on Mark Jolink (Associate Partner, Dutch & European Patent Attorney)

Live event
We organize this workshop in a live setting and will take all necessary RIVM/national measures into account. If a physical workshop is not possible, we will reschedule to a later date.

Good to know
We finish off with drinks & bites. This workshop is free of charge and facilitated in English. Please register upfront!

To tailor this workshop more to your needs / questions, we will send you a few questions and ask you to answer them in advance. Of course, we will treat the answers confidential.

We welcome new contacts, so feel free to share this invite with your network!

Briskr and Qserve announce a new partnership

Today, Briskr and Qserve announce a new partnership whereby Qserve will provide support to Briskr start-ups and SMEs towards successful growth. Briskr is a consortium in the Nijmegen area with the aim of helping start-ups and SMEs to grow faster and make more impact on the Life Sciences & Health and High Tech sectors. Briskr believes that interaction between knowledge-intensive companies and knowledge institutes, such as universities and government institutions, is essential to realize innovation. Operating in three areas – business support, project and program development for innovation activities, and acquisition of innovation companies, Briskr brings together innovative entrepreneurs in its incubation program (start-ups), acceleration program (scale-ups), and activation program (established SMEs).

Qserve is a consultancy company operating in the worlds main medical markets. The team of experts and professionals support manufacturers worldwide to help improve patient safety and health by supporting the advancement of biomedical technology. Qserve assist medical device and in-vitro diagnostics manufacturers worldwide with market access, medical device approvals, clinical trials and achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Qserve is an important addition to the Brisk ecosystem. For many startups in healthcare certification is an important hurdle in order to enter the market. Qserve will, together with Briskr and other supporting partners, develop workshops around certification and help coach startups in relation to certification and clinical validation. With this addition we expect to further advance the startup ecosystem in the Nijmegen Area.

Martijn Kriens, program manager of Briskr: “We are happy that Qserve is willing to expand our network of services for startups. Professional support early in relation to certification and quality information is important for startups to have access to. With the partnership with Qserve we enhance the access to these.”

Martin de Bruin, Partner at Qserve Group: “Qserve is highly engaged with start-ups, bringing new devices and/or technologies to the market that improve patient safety. With the Briskr program we can help the start up community with our practical approach; to translate the existing regulations into understandable requirements.”

BANN event 8 March

Business Angels Network Nijmegen is the network of informal investors that strengthens the ecosystem of Nijmegen start-ups and scale-ups.

The network brings these business angels and the start-ups and scale-ups together on a regular basis. On 8 March the following four start-ups were allowed to pitch: HomEvap, XHEAL Dx, LumiNose and SPL Medical.

Webinar: audit and inspection readiness in clinical investigations

This webinar is intended for medical device manufacturers and all parties involved in planning and performing the clinical investigations with medical devices in EU.

The webinar provides basic information on the audit and inspection readiness in clinical investigations, including practical tips for preparation, conduct and follow-up after the audit/inspection and sharing real experiences as lessons learned from various audits and inspections.

More information by this link. Or contact René Pulles by e-mail.

Business model Check Up

Business models aren’t valid forever. Your own direction changes over time, the world around you changes and sometimes things develop differently from what you had expected. What every company needs is a periodical check-up of its business model. Done by critical thinkers with a wealth of experience in where business models can go wrong and lead to failure. The earlier you can see the faults in you business model the better you can prepare to avoid the pitfalls. Success favours those who are prepared!

In this workshop we will lead you through a number of pitfalls of, especially digital, innovations that can effectively make you fail. In this way, we help you to avoid these pitfalls yourself and become successful. We will share examples about innovations that got stuck and how entrepreneurs got back on track. And offer advice on your situation!

We conclude with a business model check up of your idea and organisation: How strong is your organization when it comes to innovation and which developments can strengthen or undermine your idea? We combine everything we have shared to create a mini action plan for you.

A participant’s feedback from previous workshop: “I did not expect the hands-on and practical approach the workshop took, I have found it very useful and was happy that my business case could get attention.”

The workshop is given by two innovators of InnoValor, Claudia Vermeulen and Liesbeth Hijink. Afterwards, you will receive a trend book with digital trends and the tools we have worked with.

Live event
We aim to organize this workshop in a live setting and will take all necessary RIVM/national measures into account. If a physical workshop is not possible, we will reschedule to a later date.

Good to know
We finish off with drinks & bites. This workshop is free of charge and facilitated in English. Please register upfront!

Webinar: Tafelgesprek ‘Arbeidscommunicatie bij pharma bedrijven’

Arbeidsmarktcommunicatie draait om de chemie tussen potentieel talent en werkgever. Maar hoe vertaal je goed werkgeverschap in employer branding? Ben je benieuwd hoe Aspen Oss, ARDENA en Bioconnection dit in de praktijk brengen? En ben je nieuwsgierig naar de adviezen van recruitment bureau Derks & Derks?

Luister dan op 5 april van 11.30 – 12.30 naar de online tafelgesprek met Dana Kalasek (HR-manager Bioconnection), Robert Dam (Plantmanager Aspen Oss), Rob Abbenhuis (BU Director ARDENA) en Tim van Loon (Head recruitment Derks & Derks). Samen met moderator Alexander Steegh en Sidekick Ria Hein zullen zij praktijkervaringen delen tijdens dit interessante tafelgesprek.

Vragen waar we graag een antwoord op krijgen:

Wat speelt er en wat doe jij om je bedrijf aantrekkelijk te laten zijn voor werknemers? Wat speelt er nu op de arbeidsmarkt? Waarom is er krapte? Wat kun je als werkgever doen om de juiste kandidaten te werven en te behouden? Hoe werven jullie nieuwe mensen?

Registratielink: https://www.lifeteczone.nl/bijeenkomst/webinar-tafelgesprek-arbeidscommunicatie-bij-pharma-bedrijven/

Bioconnection – Dana Kalasek (HR-manager)

Het farmaceutische bedrijf BioConnection vult op zeer grote schaal flacons af voor onder meer voor corona-vaccins en andere geneesmiddelen. Ze bedienen klanten van enkele flacons tot meer dan honderdduizend flacons per productie hoeveelheid en daarmee is het bedrijf in staat om klanten te ondersteunen van de klinische onderzoeksfase tot aan producties op commerciële schaal.

Dana is een HR Business Partner, met ruime stafervaring binnen verschillende organisatieonderdelen, van Productie tot Research & Development, in een multinational. Als hoofdfacilitator heeft ze in het kader van cultuurveranderingen onder andere trainingen verzorgd. Haar passie is coaching en loopbaanbegeleiding vanuit respect en vertrouwen.

Aspen Oss – Robert Dam (Plantmanager)

Aspen Oss ontwikkelt en produceert complexe, hoogwaardige Actieve Farmaceutische Ingrediënten (API’s). Dit zijn de werkzame bestanddelen in geneesmiddelen. Hun producten, zoals heparine, hormonen, peptiden en steroïden, worden verwerkt tot onder meer bloedverdunners, spierverslappers, anticonceptie en anesthesiemiddelen. Aspen Oss maakt onderdeel uit van de Aspen Pharma Group met de hoofdvestiging in Zuid-Afrika.

Robert is een energieke, toegewijde en gepassioneerde persoon en heeft de kennis en persoonlijke flair om een API-fabriek voor chemische productie te leiden. Hij is verantwoordelijk voor een personeelsbestand van 270 medewerkers, waaronder operationele productieteams, plannings-, magazijn- en logistiek-, onderhouds- en betrouwbaarheids- en engineeringteams.

ARDENA – Rob Abbenhuis (BU Director)

Ardena maakt werkzame stoffen voor geneesmiddelen met Europese vestigingen met ruim 300 werknemers die helpt met de productie van geneesmiddelen, de fabricage van doseringsvormen, klinische logistiek, bioanalyse en dossierontwikkeling.

Rob wordt warm van API-procesontwikkeling en commercialisering, commerciële API- en (steriele) productie van geneesmiddelen, secundaire verpakkingen, cGMP, Lean Six Sigma, (internationaal) projectmanagement, Supply Chain en technische diensten.

Derks & Derks – Tim van Loon (Head recruitment)

Derks & Derks is al twintig jaar actief in de Life Sciences, een sector die meer dan ooit in beweging is: innovaties volgen elkaar in hoog tempo op om echte waarde te creëren voor patiënten en cliënten in sub sectoren als Farma, Medical Devices, Biotech en Food. Techniek, onderzoek en digitalisering hebben een niet meer weg te denken invloed, maar human talent zal altijd dé centrale succesfactor blijven.

Al sinds zijn afstuderen is Tim werkzaam binnen de arbeidsbemiddeling. In zijn huidige rol bij Derks & Derks brengt hij organisaties, talenten en professionals in Life Sciences en Gezondheidszorg samen.

Datum: 5 april 2022

Tijd: 11.30 – 12.30

Organisatie: Pivot Park en Lifeteczone

Podcast AI for Life #10 – Will siri soon be speaking ‘Fries’?

Speech recognition has been around for a while now and has made great strides. Think of Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, which are used by millions of people every day. Yet speech recognition still works best when spoken clearly or in a simple or narrow specialised domain. The challenge is to take this even further, so that speech recognition also works when the circumstances are more difficult. Think for example of spoken dialect where the training possibilities of the AI are often limited by the smaller data sets. Or in cases of a speech impediment after a stroke, for example. Another new direction is the detection of emotion in speech and using this to better recognise the context of what is being said.

Within the Radboud University and Radboudumc, together with Telecats, work is being done on more advanced forms of speech recognition in which atypical speech is also better recognised. For this podcast we talk to:

Henk van den Heuvel (Radboud University CLST)
Sandra van Dulmen (Radboudumc)
Arjan van Hessen (Telecats)
The podcast is moderated by Martijn Kriens (Briskr)

Call for proposals HTA methodology – round 1

Medical innovations are constantly being developed in order to provide better care. The discipline Health Technology Assessment (HTA) offers methodology for assessing the (added) value of medical innovations. The (further) development of HTA methodology contributes to making adequately considered decisions.

Subsidy for (further) development of HTA methodology
The purpose of this grant is to develop or improve the methodology for conducting an HTA in the field of medical technology; so that stakeholders can better assess the (added) value and make better decisions about appropriate use, efficient procurement of care and/or package management.

Since 18 February 2022 the subsidy call HTA methodology, round 1 is open. The deadline for submitting an application is 19 April 2022, 14.00 hours.

More information. (in Dutch)

Webinar Semiconductors 4 Photonics

Organised in partnership, and supported by the Welsh Government, CSconnected and Holland Semiconductors present ‘Semiconductors 4 Photonics’.

Semiconductors and photonics are at the heart of a wide range of critical technologies including connectivity, healthcare, sensing and energy.

The ‘Semiconductor 4 Photonics’ webinar will focus on building, and strengthening existing relationships, between the United Kingdom and Netherlands.

Join us on Tuesday March 8th 2022 at 9am GMT / 10am CET, to hear from the CSconnected and High Tech NL clusters joined by panel of expert speakers in the Semiconductor 4 Photonics sector.

More information.

Science Cafe Nijmegen

Origins of Life: from evolution of planets to sparkles of life

Life is the most complex entity in this corner of the universe, and its origin is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Did life happen by chance on Earth? Is our planet the only one in the universe hosting life? To answer these questions, we need to penetrate the fundamental processes that made it possible. It took no magic but billions of years. Life emerged because of the interactions among millions of simpler constituents, in the fine-tuned conditions of a welcoming planet.

On Monday, March 14th, when the Science Café Nijmegen opens its doors again, we will walk back the origin of life, starting from the formation of inhabitable planets up to the aggregation of the first life forms. Planetary physicist Dennis Höning (Vrije Universiteit) studies the evolution of planets, modelling the exchange of carbonates between the mantle and the atmosphere. Subduction zones and thermal spots are among the factors that allow for the accumulation of enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to keep our planet habitable. By applying his models to exoplanetary data, he can assist the search for life beyond our Solar System. Omer Markovitch, chemist from Groningen University, will introduce us to the complex mechanisms of prebiotic evolution. He focuses on the numerous steps that matter must accomplish before life sparkles, in the process that took us from simple molecules into cellular structures. This evening, from 7.30 pm onwards, we are welcomed back with the musical improvisations and ‘duologues’ of Daniël van der Duim and Loek van den Berg.

scientists /8pm Dennis Höning (Vrije Universiteit) and Omer Markovitch (University of Groningen)

music /7.30pm Daniël van der Duim & Loek van den Berg

moderator Maïté Tjon A Hie

time Monday March 14th 2022, 7.30/8 – 10 pm
venue The Shamrock, Smetiusstraat 17 in Nijmegen

admission free admission

language English

info www.sciencecafenijmegen.nl