Innovation Matters

Photonics is the technology that focuses on the generation, transport, and detection of light waves and light particles, also called photons. Photonic solutions are a response to the growing need in the areas of communication, food production, living comfort, industrial digitization, and health.

In this episode, we invited two professors from Taiwan and the Netherlands. To discuss the development situation of photonics in the two ar...

ASML is in the leading position in the chip manufacturing process. The key to having such success is to use the power of innovation, or “open innovation.” In this episode, we invited Boudewijn Sluijk, Director of Strategic Marketing from ASML, to share how they think about open innovation within the company and at the industrial scale.

Our modern life is driven by chips. Chip manufacturing is known as “semiconductor industry,” a hig...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry. In this episode, we will be talking about the rising of the Semiconductor industry in Taiwan. We invite Prof. Mila Davids (the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and Dr. ChunPu Lin (Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taiwan) to join us and share the story of TSMC and the story of the Semicon...

Welcome to the eight episode of Innovation Matters podcast brought to you by Netherlands Innovation Network. Today, we are back with the researchers of Singapore National Eye Center. Last time we talked about the development of SELENA+ the AI tool to detect diabetes related eye disease and the impact of covid of digitalization in the health care sector in Singapore. 

We are here with Professor Wong, Professor Tan and Professor T...

Singapore and The Netherlands both face an increasing pressure on the healthcare system, due to a rapidly ageing population. Digitalisation in general, and use of AI specifically, is one of the ways to address this issue. In this episode we will discuss the use of AI or artificial intelligence in health care in Singapore. Which types of AI are currently used and which ones are promising? What will be lasting impacts of COVID on the...

A large number of patients do not respond well to commonly used drugs. Some patients even suffer from side effects. In Europe alone, about 3.5% of hospital admissions are related to side effects of medicines. Many patients are not treated properly because they do not respond or respond poorly to medicines.

In this episode, Claire Selbeck talks to Professor Fu. As a recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant, Dr Jingyuan Fu offers a sol...

China consumes 28 percent of the world's meat, twice as much as the U.S. The U.S. already has advanced available products such as Beyond Sausage and the Impossible Burger. In China, a variety of mock meat products have long been available because of the country's Buddhist roots. Buddhists eat a partially or fully vegetarian diet. However, this industry has not yet begun producing the so-called 2.0 plant-based meats; product...

Formally, intellectual property rights have been acknowledged and protected in China since the 1980s. In 2001, China became a member of the world trade organization. A premise of this was that China had to address some international concerns about its IPR system.

Despite of this, some concerns remain. President Trump has repeatedly called out China for theft of intellectual property. In various reports on doing business in China, su...

The world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050.

In this episode we will continue to talk ab...

The world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050.

In this episode we will talk with Dr. Maart...