Winners Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2025 announced

The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Awards 2025 were presented at NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam: Readler received the award in the Society category, LightUp received the award in the Health category, and in the Environment and Climate category, BOR-LYTE won.

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IXA is the Knowledge Transfer Office of Amsterdam UMC, HvA, UvA and VU

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Discover how you can transfer knowledge to society and start to create impact. IXA is here to support you: whether it’s collaborating with organizations or companies, developing an innovative product, fulfilling a public role, or working on a spinoff, we are here to help!

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At IXA, we primarily focus on your research and enhancing the impact of your research results. As a service of the Amsterdam knowledge institutes, our expertise, services, and facilities are free of charge

Why valorisation?

For researchers from all disciplines

We offer support from all the knowledge institutes’ research disciplines – from engineering, maths and life sciences to the arts, humanities and social sciences. To stimulate impact and valorisation in research, as offered by your knowledge institute.

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Valorisation is the process of creating value from knowledge by making knowledge suitable and/or available for economic and/or societal use and translating that knowledge into competitive products, services, processes and entrepreneurial activity.

A KTO is part of a university’s infrastructure that aims to transfer knowledge outside academia for the benefit of society. This transfer of knowledge, research results or intellectual property should result in societal and/or economic impact. KTOs are found at universities active in all domains while the variation TTO (Technology Transfer Office) is often found at technical universities.

A KTO gives shape and meaning to the universities third mission: valorizing research. At the same time a KTO acts as a facilitator. With a broad range of facilities, services and expertise IXA offers researchers practical support to valorize research. Also, the KTO fulfils an important communication role: universities and profitable companies have different values and objectives if it comes to research. The KTO experts understand both and can communicate effectively with researchers and commercial people alike. Further a KTO’s efforts and involvement ensures that all parties involved – researcher, university and a third party – receives a fair return if a company generates profits with the knowledge. And all that in a way that as many people as possible will benefit from their research results.