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Workshop Challenges & Opportunities for SMEs within BE-Basic

On October 18 2011 the BE-Basic innovation workshop "Challenges and Opportunities for SME's within BE-Basic" took place in Amsterdam. Around 60 people participated during this afternoon workshop. Several SMEs and start-ups within BE-Basic presented their business cases, followed by perspectives from multinationals (DSM) and the investment sector (Rabobank).

Aim

The workshop aimed to give more insight in the innovation activities within the BE-Basic program and showed examples of BE-Basic SMEs and start-ups setting up their companies.

Presentations

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Programme

October 18, 2011

13.00 -
13.30 hr

Registration (coffee, refreshments)

13.30 hr

Welcome and introduction BE-Basic Business and Innovation Centre (BE-BIC), Bram Brouwer

13.50 hr

Business case 1: Waste2chemical, Kirsten Steinbusch

14.10 hr

Business case 2: MicroLife Solutions, Hans van Veen

14.30 hr

Business case 3: Bird Engineering, Marc Lankveld

14.50 hr

Business case 4: Bioclear, Janneke Krooneman

15.10 -
15.30 hr

Coffee/tea break

15.30 hr

Business case 5: BioDetection Systems, Bart van der Burg

15.50 hr

Business case 6: Microdish, Martin Hessing - Cancelled

16.10 hr

Business case 7: BLGG AgroXpertus, Renske Landeweert

16.30 hr

Big Industry perspective: DSM, Henk Noorman

16.50 hr

Investors perspective: Rabobank, Guus Verhees

17.10 -
18.00 hr

Closure and beverages

  • Delft University of Technology
  • BioDetection Systems B.V.
  • BIRD Engineering B.V.
  • BLGG AgroXpertus
  • Bioclear
  • Food & Biobased Research
  • VU University Amsterdam
  • Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)
  • Purac
  • Utrecht University
  • Maastricht University
  • Synthon
  • DSM
  • Microdish BV
  • Wageningen UR
  • AkzoNobel
  • Deltares
  • MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of Groningen
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Microlife Solutions
  • Essent New Energy B.V.
  • Waste2Chemical