Photonics Business Development

The road from a discovery generated from basic research to a commercial product is long and filled with roadblocks. Benno Oderkerk as CEO of the successful Dutch company Avantes will be our chair during this session. He will give you some ‘good practices’ to ‘bridge the gap’ between research and commercial products. During this session he will also introduce two other companies that are doing their very best in ‘Bridging this Gap” and not without success! The two other companies are Innoluce (Marijn van Os) with a very successful program on MEMS mirror technology and Akeso Medical Imaging on Rheumatoid Arthritis (Wouter Rensen). This session might be an eye opener for starters and small SME’s that just started their business in Photonics as an enabling technology for the 21st century. We would appreciate to start a discussion with all companies that encounter this gap, sometimes called as ‘The Valley of Death’!

Please notice!

The nature of this session differs from other sessions with four instead of three speakers and no breaks between the talks. Visitors of this session are exclusively invited to join the complete session and to start a discussion with the four speakers at the end of their presentations.