Collaborations

TU Delft, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC have joined forces in Convergence. The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time ask for fundamentally new forms of cooperation, moving beyond the boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. In research and education, Convergence is committed to combine strengths, knowledge and methods to address societal challenges such as climate change, sustainability, pressure on the healthcare system, urbanization and digitalization.

Within the context of Convergence, TTO keeps close ties to its knowledge transfer colleagues from the TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam. The TTO focuses especially on the theme of Health & Technology. We encourage cross-institutional collaboration and valorization to create an impact on the greatest societal challenges.

Create4Care is Erasmus MC's hands-on innovation hub. Healthcare staff and patients and their loved ones are welcomed to share practical points of improvement. When the Create4Care team thinks it can solve the problem, they get to work together with the initiators. The Create4Care experts work both in the department in question and in their vibrant innovation lab. And they often do so in collaboration with students from the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences or Technical University Delft.

The Create4Care team often invents practical innovations that they believe can make an impact outside Erasmus MC. Whenever that happens, TTO partners up with Create4Care to guide their inventions and designs through the valorization process so they can improve the work of healthcare staff and the lives of patients.

The incubator programs of Erasmus MC, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Technical University Delft, and Leiden University have joined forces: Erasmus MC Incubator, Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship, Yes!Delft, and unlock_. Through this joint approach, the incubators have introduced a coaching development program to provide housing, funding, training and networking for young innovative companies in South Holland.

Oncode Institute is an independent institute dedicated to understanding cancer and translating research into practice. The best fundamental cancer researchers in the Netherlands come together in Oncode to bring their research discoveries into the clinic faster. Along with performing vital basic research, Oncode is specialized in cooperating with third parties to guide its scientists’ discoveries towards translational and clinical research and novel diagnostics, drugs and treatments.

TTO and Oncode Institute work together closely to ensure the successful valorization of ideas by researchers affiliated with both Erasmus MC and Oncode Institute. With the support of both organizations, their innovations have the highest chance of impact on cancer diagnosis and treatment!

Rotterdam Square is the organization that connects the Life Sciences & Health ecosystem in the Rotterdam region. Rotterdam Square brings together experts in healthcare, science and technology from academia and industry, to accelerate Health&Tech innovations and create healthcare solutions for the future. As campus organization, Rotterdam Square is responsible for building the innovative ecosystem on the Erasmus MC Campus, located in the vibrant heart of Rotterdam, where medical, social and technological science come together with research, education and business from all over the world, seeking to innovate and work together connecting in Health&Tech in Rotterdam and the Netherlands.  

TTO brings great ideas and innovations from Erasmus MC into the Life Science & Health community. Meanwhile, Rotterdam Square brings young companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders from the Life Science & Health community to Erasmus MC. Together, TTO and Rotterdam Square ensure a vibrant and dynamic exchange of ideas and innovations at Erasmus MC.

The Association of European Science and Technology Transfer Professionals (ASTP) is Europe’s premier association of Knowledge Transfer professionals, a non-profit member’s organization committed to knowledge transfer among universities and industry. Their focus is to further improve the quality of impact that public research has on the economy and society. ASTP strives to shape the future profession of knowledge and technology transfer while increasing the attraction and credibility of the profession.

The TTO team is affiliated with ASTP and includes 4 Registered Technology Transfer Professionals (RTTP) accredited by ASTP. Others in the team are undergoing regular ASTP trainings and workshops to ensure knowledge of best tech transfer practice and receive their RTTP accreditation.

The Licensing Executives Society (LES) is a professional association with a clear and distinguishable focus on the business aspects of intellectual property (IP) from a global perspective with a broad variety of experts from all fronts and sectors dealing with IP. LES’s purpose is to establish licensing as a profession, enabling its members to meet, to learn from one another and to encourage high professional standards among the individuals engaged in licensing of IP rights and the transfer of technology.

The TTO team includes legal professionals affiliated with LES BeNeLux, and provides the current president of LES BeNeLux. Others in the team are undergoing regular LES trainings and workshops to ensure knowledge of best licensing practice.

The Thematic Technology Transfer (TTT) program provides funding and expertise for the development and commercialization of innovative technologies within specific themes. These thematic areas include TTT Medtech for medical technologies, Dutch CardioVascular Alliance (DCVA) for cardiovascular innovations, and RegMed XB for regenerative medicine. TTT promotes collaboration between knowledge institutions, investors, and entrepreneurs to bring technologies to market faster with financial support and expert guidance.

TTO is a participant in TTT MedTech, one of multiple funding opportunities available to young companies affiliated with Erasmus MC TTO.

UNIIQ is a publicly funded Proof-of-Concept (PoC) fund that provides early-stage financing to technology-driven start-ups and university spin-offs in the South Holland province of the Netherlands. The fund offers convertible loans to companies in the TRL 3-5 phase, where private investors are often hesitant to invest due to the risks and costs. UNIIQ is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (Europees Fonds voor Regionale Ontwikkeling; EFRO) and the Early Stage Financing (Vroegefasefinanciering; VFF) program of RVO.

UNIIQ is one of multiple funding opportunities available to young companies affiliated with Erasmus MC TTO.