We hope you and your family are all well in these times.

Due to the corona pandemic we are following the government and RIVM guidelines and, like many organizations, working from home as much as possible. We are in frequent contact with our core team and work continues in a mainly remote/ virtual way. That requires flexibility and adaptiveness from our people, but we are confident that we’ll be able to stay in contact in the best way possible. Read more…

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With great enthusiasm and ambition, the Supervisory Board of Eindhoven Engine B.V. began its duties on 1 December last year. We are convinced that the set-up and working methods of Eindhoven Engine are fully in line with the Brainport region’s strategic objectives: playing a prominent, leading role at the cutting edge of high-quality, innovative and sustainable technology while also searching for solutions to societal issues that the modern world craves.

Platform

With Eindhoven Engine, we are creating a dynamic platform that evokes Natlab – the cradle of so many great successes within the Brainport region – while simultaneously being tailored to the knowledge and involvement of the right partners from the worlds of education, science and business. These partners are working in harmony to be able to deal with multidisciplinary issues and to sustainably strengthen our economy in the process.

The Brainport region is in a unique position to manage complex, idiosyncratic products and processes through the collaboration of many stakeholders and project partners. Thanks to strong players in the field of science and education, deep-rooted knowledge in institutions and companies, and our understanding of open innovation and international focus – as well as the tremendous support from the facilitating public authorities – we can ensure that the chain of innovation and the market introduction and implementation of new products run smoothly and at the right pace.

Multidisciplinary

The complementary development of innovation is the future! Eindhoven Engine offers a wonderful model of harmony from fundamental to applied knowledge, driven by both supply and demand. Within this model, all disciplines and knowledge sectors work together on the desired products of the future. Nor are there any borders between the worlds of high-tech, energy, agricultural development, life sciences, data, artificial intelligence and design, for example, nor between the worlds of alpha, beta and gamma.

Through open innovation and strong chain partners, we can also quickly scale up and roll out, thus creating great and faster opportunities for success with fewer risks!

OpenCall

As the Supervisory Board, we are looking forward to the great projects that will be realized in the coming years via the OpenCalls, and we will monitor the strategic progress together with board of directors.

We wish the directors, Maarten Steinbuch and Katja Pahnke, every success in this wonderful, challenging task and, of course, we wish the same for project applicants and all others involved.

Let’s turn Eindhoven Engine into Natlab 2.0 and accomplish valuable projects together!

On behalf of the Supervisory Board,
Jan Mengelers
Guustaaf Savenije
Arnaud de Jong
Staf Depla

Bert Pauli
Chair

Collaboration ensures faster economic recovery after coronacrisis.

Dat de coronacrisis tot een recessie leidt, staat vast. Dat levert niet alleen economische schade op. Er dreigt ook veel kennis en innovatief vermogen verloren te gaan. Zeker in een hightech gebied als de Brainportregio. Dat wil accelerator Eindhoven Engine met haar samenwerkingsverbanden en consortia tussen kennisinstellingen en bedrijven voorkomen. Dat moet tevens bijdragen tot een sneller aantrekken van de economie na de crisis. Read more…

Source: Innovation Origins
(article: in Dutch)

The Eindhoven Engine team hopes that you all had a good start to this year and wishes you an energetic and exponentially innovative 2020.
In this edition of Eindhoven Engine News we look back at 2019 and also look forward: OpenCall 2020. Read more…

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Read more about Neurotrend.

NEUROTREND (Neurological MRI-based biomarkers for treatment navigation in depression) is a study aimed at improving the selection of the right treatment strategy for depression.

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common mental illness characterized by at least two weeks of abnormal gloominess often associated with, among other things, loss of interest and inability to enjoy something. MDD can lead to reduced quality of life and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality.

The primary goal of the NEUROTREND study is to use brain scans to predict the course of a depression. We also want to better understand why some people respond to treatment for depression while for others the same treatment does not help. We will do this by identifying so-called MRI-based biomarkers. These MRI-based biomarkers are physiological changes or findings in the brain that we can observe by means of MRI scans and at the same time are an indicator of the state of depression. Examples of physiological changes or findings in the brain are the volume, activity and connections of and between different parts of the brain. In addition to the scans, the severity of the depression is also measured periodically so that we can determine the effectiveness of the treatment. By combining the MRI-based biomarkers and treatment effectiveness, we hope to be able to make predictions before a treatment is started.

Last year, the Eindhoven Engine had its first open call for innovation projects, a follow-up to the PilotCall 2018 (through which the Eindhoven Engine was founded). OpenCall 2019 resulted in four new innovation projects within the Eindhoven Engine.

Recently, we have begun to prepare for OpenCall 2020, which is expected in the first half of this year. More specifically, the plan is to open the call before March with a submission deadline of early June, allowing the selected projects to start in July. In this new OpenCall 2020, we want to address the lessons learned from the first OpenCall and are considering ways to allow for better SME participation in the Engine’s innovation projects. More details to follow later. In the meantime keep updated via Twitter and/or LinkedIn.

The added value of cross-fertilization between industry, science and students: that is where Katja Pahnke and
Maarten Steinbuch strongly believe in. In fact, they want to accelerate innovation of our Brainport region with
this unique combination in this region. Read more…

Article is in Dutch
Source: Brabantinbusiness.nl

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