Valorization

Experts at your organization

The TTO is usually the primary person to contact about your valorization plans. TTOs are valorization experts at Universities and Research Institutes. More on the role of the TTO and when to contact them is found here.

TTOs - an overview

Oncode - Researchers that are part of Oncode can contact the Oncode Valorization team for support.

Experts outside of your organization

Note that some of these may not provide service free of charge. Consulting such a party can however be part of the budgetplan in your application at KWF, if correctly substantiated.

THINC The Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC.) is part of UMC Utrecht and can help innovators in different stages of development. In their own words: "THINC has a multidisciplinary team of enthusiastic professionals who can evaluate your innovation in a short-cycle and provide expert methodological advice to build a convincing portfolio for your innovation. From idea to implementation, we help developers of healthcare innovations move forward."

HI-NL is a party that can help innovators that have established a proof of concept to evaluate the potential and the risks of the invention, and if it is considered valuable, helps design the route of validation and implementation. Their approach is based on the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders, in their own words: "Health Innovation Netherlands (HI-NL) is based on the proven fact that early dialogue between innovators and relevant stakeholders improves the value and effectiveness of health innovations. By bringing all relevant innovators and stakeholders together in one place through the HI-NL Round Table service, comprehensive well-structured guidance can be provided to accelerate the introduction of innovations that directly meet end-user needs."

NLC can help you decide if it is worth to start a start-up based on your invention, and can help you build is. In their own words "It can be hard to combine the academic perspective with entrepreneurial activities. NLC is here to help you to bring your healthtech invention to the patient. By building ventures at scale, NLC has built valuable experience in overcoming hurdles like filing patents, securing start-up capital, organizing clinical trials and getting your invention to the market. You can be as involved as you want, allowing you to continue focussing on your academic work whilst at the same time help developing your invention."

Innovation Quarter (regional Zuid-Holland) : In their own words: "As a regional development company, we work on strategic, economic and social Impact for South Holland. We support companies with innovation, investments and internationalization."

Panaxea (Amsterdan Science Park): "Our goal is to support informed decision-making around innovations to improve health".

FFUND "From innovative start-ups to mature organizations, we support innovators across all stages of growth and throughout the product development chain. [...] We do this by supporting our clients in planning and securing the complex financing mix from company start to exit, and from early development to product on the market."

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