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Personalizing cancer care with AI: Protyon secure pre-seed investment
Personalizing cancer care with AI: Protyon secure pre-seed investment Meet Protyon, a spin-out from the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen, developing predictive software...
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Revolutionizing sustainable production: EV Biotech are supercharging microbial fermentation development
Revolutionizing sustainable production: EV Biotech are supercharging microbial fermentation development Fermentation is the future! TopDutch-based EV Biotech is offering a solution to the issue of pollution-heavy...
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TopDutch events guide 3th – 9th of April 2023
Take a look at this weeks events in the TopDutch region. Whether it’s in your work-life or you’re looking for something to broaden your horizon, the TopDutch region is packed with events that’ll...
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Green travel by land, air and sea
Wander through any Dutch city, and you’ll be amazed by the locals’ all-weather commitment to zipping around for the daily commute on a bike…. often with an umbrella in one hand, and two toddlers...
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AI is a brick. Now we decide to build a home or smash a window
Are AI robots going to take over the world? No fear, says Prof. dr.ir Jan Post. [He’s got a nice metaphor to illustrate the future of AI (artificial...
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Topdutch: the gateway to Europe and beyond
With its central location, its excellent labor market, its wide talent pool of specialized staff, its culture of digital innovation merged with its exceptional digital facilities, the short lines of communication,...
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Inside the race to zero emission public transport
Few public transport companies in the world have higher climate ambitions than Qbuzz in Groningen and Drenthe. With 186 zero-emission buses (164 electric and 22 hydrogen) in use this year, and a CO2-emission...
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5 reasons expats love working in TopDutch
5 reasons expats love working in TopDutch Over 40,000 expats have chosen to make TopDutch their home. Whether they come to set up a business, work with one of our many international companies or kick-start...
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How TopDutch talents built the first solar race car of the region
How TopDutch talents built the first solar race car of the region This is the story of a group of TopDutch region talents, building the first solar car in the Northern Netherlands and taking it half way...
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Personalizing cancer care with AI: Protyon secure pre-seed investment
Personalizing cancer care with AI: Protyon secure pre-seed investment Meet Protyon, a spin-out from the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen, developing predictive software...
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Revolutionizing sustainable production: EV Biotech are supercharging microbial fermentation development
Revolutionizing sustainable production: EV Biotech are supercharging microbial fermentation development Fermentation is the future! TopDutch-based EV Biotech is offering a solution to the issue of pollution-heavy...
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TopDutch events guide 3th – 9th of April 2023
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TopDutch chosen for world’s largest offshore wind-to-hydrogen project
TopDutch chosen for world’s largest offshore wind-to-hydrogen project The TopDutch region will power the future hydrogen economy, with a 500MW offshore green hydrogen project. The ‘Ten noorden van...
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TopDutch talents on the road to hydrogen racing team
TopDutch talents on the road to hydrogen racing team Since 2017, generations of students from across the TopDutch region have been pushing themselves and the boundaries of sustainable mobility, by building...
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‘A giant leap forward’: How Implican’s technology will make surgery safer
‘A giant leap forward’: How Implican’s technology will make surgery safer Implican is developing an innovative technique to promote primary wound healing after colon and rectum surgery. Initial test...
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A revolutionary catheter and a funding injection: Inside MedTech start-up PulmoTech’s journey to market
A revolutionary catheter and a funding injection: Inside MedTech start-up PulmoTech’s journey to market PulmoTech developed an innovative catheter to improve ventilation in intensive care patients. With...
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Who cares for the carers? HealthTech start-up Valtes are building a healthy smart home
Who cares for the carers? HealthTech start-up Valtes are building a healthy smart home How do you work, raise kids, and take care of an elderly parent at the same time? Juggling informal caregiving with...
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TopDutch events guide 6th – 11th of March 2023
Dutch spring break is over which means it’s time to get back to work/school! while planning your week you might want to take a look at this weeks events in the TopDutch region. Whether it’s in...
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TopDutch events guide 27th of Feb – 4th of March 2023
It’s a brand new week! this means we’ll share our pick of this weeks events in the TopDutch region. Whether it’s in your work-life or you’re looking for something to broaden your horizon, the...
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In TopDutch, green hydrogen grows on trees
In TopDutch, green hydrogen grows on trees Green hydrogen from scrap wood, left over prunings and roadside grass. In the TopDutch region, HyCarb is working on a production plant that can make that, and...
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TopDutch events guide 20th – 26th of Feb 2023
It’s a brand new week! this means we’ll share our pick of this weeks events in the TopDutch region. Whether it’s in your work-life or you’re looking for something to broaden your horizon, the...
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TopDutch events guide 6th – 12th of Feb 2023
It’s the Week of the Circular Economy and, to celebrate, we’re rounding up our pick of sustainably-themed events. Whether it’s in your work-life or you’re looking for something fun for the weekend,...
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Music Meets Tech: connecting entrepreneurs and creatives
Music Meets Tech: connecting entrepreneurs and creatives Eurosonic Noorderslag is in full swing, with the TopDutch city of Groningen transformed into the annual beating heart of Europe’s music industry....
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Supercharging start-ups for societal challenges: Start-up in Residence NN is back!
Supercharging start-ups for societal challenges: Start-up in Residence NN is back! Working together to fast-track green and digital solutions for global challenges. That’s part of the TopDutch culture....
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Championing diversity and kickstarting careers in tech
Championing diversity and kickstarting careers in tech The tech sector is booming. But a lack of diversity and a fast and ever-growing talent shortage is very much getting in the way of continued success...
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Flying the currents below the sea to power homes
Flying the currents below the sea to power homes As the saying goes, sometimes an idea is so crazy, it just might work. In 1752, Benjamin decided to fly a kite in a thunderstorm to conduct lightning-generated...
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Omnidots is taking the US by storm
Omnidots is taking the US by storm Most New Yorkers won’t realize it, but a piece of innovative TopDutch technology ensures the New York subway system remains operational and construction...
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The world needs Moorefoam, not more foam
The world needs Moorefoam, not more foam Foam. It probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the global plastics problem. And yet, did you know foams make up...
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TopDutch’s new bio-based road is leading to a fossil-free future
TopDutch’s new bio-based road is leading to a fossil-free future When we talk of making our roads fossil-fuel free, what would typically spring to mind are green mobility technologies such...
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Medical isotope innovators SHINE medical choose Topdutch for european expansion
Medical isotope innovators SHINE Medical choose TopDutch for European expansion The American company SHINE is establishing its European branch in the municipality of Veendam. SHINE announced...
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How Google searched and found the TopDUtch region
How Google searched and found the TopDutch region Another expansion for Google’s data center located in the TopDutch region was announced in June, 2019, the second in roughly a year. How did...
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Tasty! Greek dairy giant FAGE finds their place in TopDutch
Tasty! Greek dairy giant FAGE finds their place in TopDutch The dairy giant the FAGE Group – famous for introducing the world to Greek ‘strained’ yogurt – has found their place in...
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