MIT R&D Cooperation Projects

Do you want to set up a research & development project together with 1 or more SMEs? If so, you can apply for a subsidy from 1 June 2021 at 9 am. There is one important change compared to previous years: your plans must fit within one of the following Knowledge and Innovation agendas:

Energy and Sustainability;
Health and Care;
Agriculture, Water and Food;
Safety;
Key Enabling Technologies;
Social Earnings.

Does your plan fit within one of these agendas? Then you can apply for a subsidy for an R&D Collaboration project.

More information by this link (in Dutch).

Recording and presentations of Innoboot2021

The presentations and recordings of the Innoboot2021: Food for Health! are now available. Yesterday the teams from Briskr, Foodvalley NL, HAN & Radboud University organised the annual Innoboot.

‘You are what you eat.’ We know this for a long time but still food intake has received little attention from the perspective of healthcare professionals. In various plenary and sub-sessions, we discussed Food for Health, from how to prepare patients properly for operations, food innovations & round table discussions, to encouraging consumers in supermarkets to eat more healthy food.

Connecting science and business is an important aspect of the Innoboot event. More recordings you can find here, and the presentations are on the website of SMB.

AI for Life: podcast 6: Self-learning algorithms

The 6th episode of the podcast series AI for Life is live, and this time it’s about “self-learning algorithms”.

Many smart algorithms get completely lost when change occurs within the context in which the algorithm has been trained. This often leads to errors that may be logical but come across as very stupid to the unsuspecting user. So the question is: how can we make algorithms more resilient to changes in context? In this episode, we talk about “self-learning algorithms” with experts:

– Marcel van Gerven, Professor of AI at Donders Institute of Radboud University and Radboudumc.

– Elsbeth van Dam, researcher at Noldus Information Technology and PhD candidate at Radboud University.

– And Lucas Noldus, founder of Noldus Information Technologies and currently also a professor at Radboud University.

Listen to the podcast with this link.

Medical-technological innovations accelerated to market by government investment of 8 mln

On March 23, the results of the Thematic Technology Transfer (TTT) call were announced. Radboudumc is involved in both the MedTech and AI call. Radboud University is involved in the call focused on AI. 8 million has been made available for both consortia. In the coming years, this innovative approach focused on knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship will offer many new opportunities in the health and high-tech region of Nijmegen.

Millions for knowledge and investment consortium in the field of Artificial Intelligence

The Radboud University, other Dutch universities and a venture investor have been awarded 8 million euros in funding. This grant will be used to speed up and better target innovation in the field of Artifical Intelligence within society. This is a grant from the Thematic Technology Transfer (TTT) scheme of RVO.

The TTT.AI consortium will focus on generating science based AI startups and providing early-stage funding to these start-ups. The consortium has brought together a number of top researchers, business developers, investors and entrepreneurs in the field of AI. Its primary themes are #healthcare, #security and #industry, but promising initiatives regarding other themes can get support as well. LUMO Labs is the investor responsible for providing early-stage funding.

Digital Health in Nijmegen: Stronger together

In the Nijmegen region, the Digital Health focus is actively working on connecting care institutions and knowledge institutes with companies that develop digital solutions. During the last Health Valley event, Tom van de Belt emphasized the importance of joining forces:

“Because of corona, the need for digital healthcare is greater than ever, especially in our city with its large healthcare sector. Yet all too often, digital innovations remain a pilot, because the functionality does not exactly match the wishes of end users such as a doctor, nurse or patient. This is a missed opportunity, which is why we focus on connecting end users with companies earlier and better. An important first step is to systematically identify needs”.

Next, companies are challenged. This is done within the framework of the network program Briskr Validate! Martijn Kriens, project leader of Briskr Validate:

“Challenging companies to come up with a certain solution can not only lead to an innovation faster but also has the potential to be of better quality. This is certainly true in the field of digital health”.

The expectations are therefore high. Van de Belt and Kriens look further. According to them, the Nijmegen region has all the ingredients needed to create a vibrant Digital Health region. In addition to healthcare institutions and companies, they are also thinking of other partners such as the municipality of Nijmegen and the payers of healthcare. That is why they are committed to the creation of a genuine Digital Health Hub, in which co-creation, validation and bringing digital health solutions to the market are central. The plans for this are currently being worked out. If interested, please contact both gentlemen, tom.vandebelt@radboudumc.nl en martijn.kriens@radboudumc.nl

Recording Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare

This is the recording of the workshop ‘Brilliant Business Models in Healthcare’. Jeroen Kemperman, sr. Manager Strategy & Business Development at Achmea/Zilveren Kruis, is discussing the sorts of brilliant business models which are needed to improve healthcare and realize the quadruple aim: better health, nicer treatment, happier healthcare workers and reduced cost. During the workshop the focus lays on renumeration in Health care systems in general and specifically on the Dutch Healthcare system. It is giving an interesting insight in the way the Healthcare system is organized to provide universal coverage for all, and what you should know if you want to get your innovation implemented and funded within The Netherlands and abroad.

Participant Ivonne Verhagen, HCM Medical about her experiences:

‘Briskr, thanks for the clear and educational workshop! With very useful personal tips and advice to top it off!’

Recording Briskr: Opportunities in health at Health Valley Event

Nijmegen is the city of healthcare. Beside numerous high level healthcare organisations in the region, it is also the region where more than one in four people work in health and healthcare. To stimulate health, healthcare and economy the region has adopted three promising and strong priority areas to focus on: Healthy brain, Drug discovery and digital health. In this session we will discuss these areas and show how companies can create opportunities through cooperation in the region.

Watch the recording of this session:

Health Valley and Health Innovation Park join forces to accelerate innovations.

The directors of the Health Valley and Health Innovation Park (HIP) innovation networks have expressed their intention to work towards integration this year, with the interests of partners and members at the forefront. By means of an administrative merger, they are working toward a single, powerful national health innovation network, strongly anchored in the eastern Netherlands, independent and non-profit. The new network will operate under the name “Health Valley”.

Ambition: accelerate high-impact innovations
Jeanine de Regt, director of HIP and Chris Doomernik, director of Health Valley: “The ambition of this integration is to contribute even more to accelerating high-impact innovations. Focused on tackling social problems in the area of health and care. Together, we will form the Netherlands’ most advanced healthcare innovation network, connecting all stakeholders and cooperating in projects and programs.”

Recording from SMB meeting on High Tech in healthcare (March 4, 2021)

The topic of this SMB meeting was cooperation with OnePlanet. OnePlanet is a new initiative by IMEC together with Wageningen University, Radboudumc and Radboud University. Their focus is on technology innovations in Food, Health and our environment. The Oneplanet Program can play a major role in our region in the next decade in terms of the invention of new technologies, the validation of those and in sucessfully bringing these to the market. Chris gave an overview of some of the cool projects they are working on and how he looks towards future collaboration on creating impact. His presentation was followed by two pitches of startup companies that already collaborate with OnePlanet: Ivido, Hans Niendieker and ConnectedCare, Martijn Vastenburg. Final speaker was Harry van Goor, Prof. dr. at Radboudumc, who talked about the importance of collaboration in innovation from his perspective as a medical doctor and the need of monitoring real patients in studies like the Virtual Patient Monitoring Platform.

You can watch the recording below: