Home of Innovation Projecten 2020

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“Impact for a better society” is the central mission of Delft University of Technology.

Building on an excellent scientific profile in science, engineering and design we offer knowledge-intensive, technology-driven solutions to societal challenges.

These solutions are rooted in ground breaking research: research that makes us an attractive cooperation partner for other knowledge institutes, society and for businesses.

With this approach we are at interplay with the changing drivers at European, national and regional level. Horizon Europe and national topsector policies will be driven by societal missions and key enabling technologies (KETs). Within these missions and KETs lie opportunities for universities and businesses to engage and to set the scene for future society and future economy. However, this can only be achieved by long term mutual commitment. For this reason the focus within Horizon Europe and national funding schemes (NWO) will be increasingly on long term public private partnerships.

The aim of TU Delft is to grow TU Delft Campus as a public private innovation campus of great international importance. This can only be achieved by creating strong interactions with knowledge institutions, government organizations, larger businesses, SME’s, start-ups, scale-ups and investors.

As a publicly funded university TU Delft attaches great importance to the general principles according to which our projects are carried out. There are important considerations for industry to reflect upon when contemplating to initiate research projects with us. First of all, TU Delft has an obligation to disseminate knowledge to society. Therefore all research results of TU Delft must be made available for publication. Therein we adhere to the standards of scientific integrity1 as established by the VSNU. Second, as an academic institution TU Delft may not be restricted in its freedom to pursue research. We also have a societal obligation to train the next generation of inventors and innovators. Therefore, patent-protected project results shall always be available to TU Delft itself for teaching and academic research projects. Finally, at TU Delft Open Science is seen as an important way to spread TU Delft’s mission to deliver Science to Society. With Open Science we wish to make scientific knowledge accessible online, free of charge to all users.

This way new ideas are spread faster and wider, which in turn lead to new research.

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