The power of #innovation is here: Utrecht Science Park

hello everybody my next entrepreneurial stop is today in utre actually in utre science Park and actually behind me you can see a very colorful building uh composed looks like on very colorful pixels uh and uh this is indeed I wanted to show you a little bit um a campus where University of UT is and all Associated or organiz ations companies but also foundations and uh I will today uh go there as you can see uh to udre uh Science Park Foundation that's actually Foundation because there will be organized event which I will tell you um I think I would like to not say it yet what this event will be about I will tell you later when I'm inside uh but this will be very interesting event regarding uh actually uh presentation of a product uh in uh reg medicine Ed engineering which can be easily applied and which is sustainable uh so I that's something which I really particularly like about this event that it is event with demo it's a PLU and play event and I'm really excited to go there and join it and later you will uh hear from me uh what I have seen and what I have learned but before I will tell you about the event I saw really nice boo here as you can see outside on the street which is uh actually uh made uh by utre Science Park foundation and you can sit here in inside and I'd like to actually tell you a few words about uh utre uh Science Park foundation so I will come to the Boo and this is I think creating as you can see way better acoustic As I can as I can hear and what is nice here I wanted to show you this are some also images here in this boo uh about the Dome Tower and icon in ut iconic places but also here you can see the map of the UT Science Park uh bio Science Park so that's quite a nice actually advertisement not only about the city but also about uh how uh the campus is organized and uh a lot of things uh I think here is interesting I'm not going to go all of them but apparently University Library at utre bioscience Park was uh created or designed by architect b aret in a is a which is a favorite study SP among students probably not only students but also entrepreneurs which uh or students which want to develop themselves as entrepreneurs so some sitting in this boo I I think inspired me to tell you something about the history of UT bioscience Park but more Foundation the event which I'm going to join so this was the foundation which was established exactly December 12th uh by uh UT University uh UMC UT so University Medical Center H UT so University of applied sciences Municipality of UT and finally the province of UT so if I count it's five different organizations and I think that's what makes it also very powerful when uh such foundations are established by very big uh local uh organizations uh I would say public and educ educational organizations and utra bioscience Park uh Foundation it's also member of IB which is worldwide network of science parks and I think Li bioscience Park also belongs to to this or to this network and I would like to also bring some sometimes personal uh also cases uh I think it's important to mention here also that Yen fer felden was managing director of UT bioscience Park Foundation since 2017 and maybe for some of you uh which are not reconnected foundations um uh I think word foundation dut STI think uh is very important one because these are the foundations which actually can support also academic industrial uh collaborations and and they they can the support them financially and that's very important to create the it's very important um to have such foundations because they create sustainable type of um uh founding uh innovation which is developing between University between Academia and Industry uh and startups so uh I think that's what I like to tell you from this very lovely place I love also the acoustic and then I will move to the to the U UT Science Park um building here indor and tell you later on uh some highlights about the event see you later and secondly also important is that um the robot arm inherit all the problems that come with the human arm right which is that your cells still need to leave their incubator which is their happy place where they perform the best um the cells are exposed to Mechanical stress as you move them around right might have something that's really delicate that you B just leave there but you cannot move um and last in order to actually get to my medium the LD needs to come off that's exposing them potentially to pathogens um so welcome everybody again I have here great uh actually um organizers of this Plug and Play event yes hi all team uh founder and also the person which was a really great today uh presenting PL and play in cell culture Innovation uh devices which are actually allowing to uh academic scientists to uh shorter time and prevent contamination of uh changing medium I think that's the principle um so this is important type of innovation and this can be upscalable and what I was fascinated about is that you can really we discuss during brainstorming that we can plug and play it in incubator but we can also maybe do it uh also in the flow cabinet uh with uh higher with bigger numbers of plates uh or even make it really as a replaceable um unit and uh put it in incubator instead of having all the shelves so make sure that actually we can um have more high frut and medium uh uh exchange and there was also of course a discussion about developments like how we can create you know uh different applications for cells which are adherent which cells which grow in suspension cells which are uh stem cells which of course I'm the most uh interested in but also how we can uh really uh bring even such uh particular conditions of hypoxia uh which uh there is also a lot a lot of research has been done especially in reg medicine so definitely I think this PL and play product which you guys presented it's really uh fascinating because it's waiting to be patented so we cross fingers we cross all fingers also here we have a great lady from uh the utre because I'm too many times in Len from utre science uh Park foundation and I think it's been great that you are also supporting this event this PL and play event so where there is demo it's not just a simple lecture but there was demo and people can really see potential users which are academic scientists but also R&D uh companies and they can really get idea about how this you know how this prototype looks like and how it's going to be commercialized because what a lot of I think a lot of us don't sometimes know exactly how you know commercialization process occur what are the stages and and how this really uh you know taking place and which are the main key players which are who are the stakeholders and what you have to pay attention to and how to actually organize such events in such nice place as science part foundation and also be really also supported as a startup which I think it's also as a I can say as a startup that this plays very important role so I think uh with this uh I'd like to this summary which I told you that I will bring some summary I would like to um give you warm greetings from this great place and also ask my colleagues to also give you some greetings so that you can enjoy to see all of them yes we have all of them and uh well see you in next next time and if you have questions I will still put email of guys and you can send if you have some questions about this PL and Play device for cell culture uh you can uh you can uh contact them directly so um thank you very much for uh listening and see you next time bye