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Dutch electricity production is increasingly greening. In 2024, 50% of the total production came from renewable sources, reports Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. As wind and solar power become more competitive, fossil fuels usage for power generation is shrinking. Read more in this week's episode of Behind the Figures ?? https://lnkd.in/ewuJNatC

?? The Dutch healthcare start-up?Juvoly?is?the first?in the Netherlands to use the new?Nvidia DGX B200?supercomputers with Blackwell chips. They use these to improve AI for speech recognition in healthcare. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ee6eVa_u

AI, IoT, 5G, ITS: the automotive sector focuses on digitization The European automotive industry is under pressure, but there's also hope on the horizon.The Drive Forward Conference, in April at the AutomotiveCampus in #Helmond, discusses how Europe can take the lead again. Cuno Kirsten de Vos Christine Emiel Maria Zeljko European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) RAI Automotive Industry NL

Sirius Medical, a spin-off from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and former Gerard & Anton winner, raised €10 million in February. IO+ spoke with CEO?Bram Schermers. His scale-up is improving cancer patient care by using a magnetic seed to locate breast cancer tumors. Sirius' first application is designed for breast-conserving tumor resections, an operation performed 1.3 million times a year worldwide. Schermers talked about the extremely challenging conditions medtech scale-ups in Europe are currently experiencing. New, stricter regulations make for a slow and unclear review process.? ? Schermers sees that uncertainty is disastrous, especially for young companies. “The American market pays more for your product, and entrepreneurs know where they stand. If you apply for certification there, you have results within six months. Sirius is an exception; few medtech startups in the Netherlands currently manage to raise money at this stage and advance to scale-up.” Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eWsafKDF

?? National hydrogen network is picking up speed! The cabinet wants to accelerate the construction of the hydrogen network by having another organization arrange the permits. Gasunie Hynetwork Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e3zHDxMr

Product copied? You need to know this about patent infringement - In a series of blog posts, Marco Coolen provides an insight into his work as a Dutch and European patent attorney at AOMB Intellectual property.

#EuroPassport: Pioneering an AI-powered path for expats in Europe. Dispatches Europe's founders Terry and Cheryl Boyd prepare an innovative platform to simplify the journey for foreign talent in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. Read about their plans, presented during last week's Gerard & Anton #DrinksPitchesDemos, here: https://lnkd.in/eDxmgAdk Hilde de Vocht HighTechXL Expat Advice Eindhoven Holland Expat Center South Kris De Prins Eindhoven News Dutch News Today Dutch Daily News Bert-Jan Hans

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The Stad Antwerpen offers support for six innovative local startups: . Their projects must be up and running within nine months. Half a million euros is available for operating costs. More here: https://lnkd.in/e-bYSS3U Johan Klaps Freek Niesten Tim Dieryckx Voxdale | design-driven engineering Ruud Belmans WeWantMore Hendrik Vercammen Maxim Le Compte Christophe Deben Sightera Biosciences Creaflow Ben De Smet Gauthier Willemse Mindoo AI BlueChem Rik Van Meirhaeghe Bloom Biotech

Dutch self-employment laws—and the announced sharp controls by the tax office—present major challenges for startups. Does it mean an end to the self-employed CFO? Not yet, but the new regulations are forcing startups to reconsider their staffing strategy. We spoke about this with Robin van Scheijndel (HighTechXL) and Ronald Honings (fiscal specialist at KPMG Meijburg & Co). More here: https://lnkd.in/eqzhfuvq Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau Techleap Invest-NL Golden Egg Check Johan Schaap Dutch Startup Association John Bell Xaveria Vossen Bert-Jan Woertman BRAVENTURE Brabant Startup Fonds BV Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) Startup Grind Groningen Brightlands Startup League 4TU.Startups imec.istart Novel-T The Gate Rinke Zonneveld Terry Boyd Cheryl Boyd Lucien Burm