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Introduction by Paul Althuis
Sharing ideas for Collaborations
Separating plastic waste: not only by color, but also by the different types of plastics. Making combustion processes more sustainable. Or a real moonshot: the lunar rover, a robot cart that can drive autonomously over the lunar surface. These are just a few of the promising innovation projects featured in this fourth edition of Home of Innovation.
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Our scientists perform pioneering research every day. It is equally important to ensure that these radical innovations also benefit society in the form of new products and services. To achieve that, collaboration is needed: with companies, with startups, with governments and other knowledge institutions.
The TU Delft Valorisation Centre stimulates this process of technology transfer in various ways. For example, by setting up field labs on the TU Delft Campus where companies can test, validate and further develop new innovations together with scientists, researchers, start-ups and the public. By setting up partnerships with large companies and close cooperations with Erasmus University, Erasmus MC and Leiden University. Furthermore we initiate public-private research programmes and support start-ups All driven by the same mission impact for a better society.
We have listed the best of these radical innovations that have recently been developed in this edition. It provides a nice overview of the variety of research at TU Delft on the basis of a large number of innovation projects.
In this booklet you will find innovative projects of the different research institutes of TU Delft. The bundling of research capacity within these institutes shows clearly how we collaborate across different faculties on a number of appealing research themes. The innovations resulting from these crossover projects provide a good insight into why close cooperation is so important.
The projects are captured in stimulating visualisations and labelled with a so-called technology readiness level that provides insight into the distance to the market. All information can be found online via a QR code.
Home of Innovation is a guide for companies and institutions that want to collaborate. Do you share our ambition for a better society? Team up with us and let’s create the future together!
