Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award
The Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AmSIA) is the Amsterdam competition for innovative ideas with a societal and/or commercial impact. The Award makes valuable ideas based on scientific research visible. Since its launch, the Award has generated more than 400 innovative, bright and applicable ideas. Many of these have resulted in concrete applications and some even formed the basis for new businesses.
During the last Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award finale in 2019, nine finalists presented their innovations on stage. Thereafter, the jury granted three finalists the Innovation Award and €7.500.
Anya Biotech wins the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge 2022
Anya Biotech, representing Amsterdam UMC, has won the second edition of the Proefdiervrij Venture Challenge on the 22nd of April 2022. Their winning innovation is based on research from the Department of Medical Biology at the AMC. The team takes home €25.000, – in prize money to kick-start their venture based on human heart models […]
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Start-up OrthoKey BV received financing from Innovation Fund
OrthoKey B.V., een start-up gevestigd in Amsterdam, heeft een converteerbare lening ontvangen van het Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland voor de ontwikkeling van haar oplossing ter verbetering van de diagnostiek bij klachten na een gewrichtsvervanging. Het project komt voort uit het Amsterdam UMC en wordt mede gefinancierd vanuit een Topconsortium Kennis & Innovatie, Public Private Partnership (TKI-PPP) en […]
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#thisisvalorisationtoo: book by UvA researchers full of language mysteries and curious stories in bookstore now
Every language contains riddles and secrets, currently there are seven thousand+ known languages. A treasure trove of colourful, curious and enigmatic stories. Every language tells a story about and gives a picture of the culture and the people that speak or have spoken this language. And every language is full of riddles and secrets that […]
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