Innovation Matters
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -A podcast by the Netherlands Innovation Network, hosted from embassies and consulates around the world. This podcast highlights the technological innovation from the Netherlands, and our host countries, that could help solve the grand societal challenges the world is facing. Specifically focused on fields in which we can work together, or in which successful collaboration is already going on. To get in contact with us, please visit https://english.rvo.nl/partners-network/international-economic-network/netherlands-innovation-network/contact.
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#13 China - Afke Schaart: Gender Equality and Global Impact at Huawei
February 11, 2022 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome to the 13th episode of Innovation Matters, a podcast organized by the Netherlands Innovation Network. In this episode we’ll talk to Afke Schaart. This podcast episode is broadcasted from Shanghai, China. Afke Schaart is the Senior Vice President and Head of Global Impact at the headquarters of Huawei in Shenzhen and the most senior foreign national currently working at Huawei. She previously worked in local and national government, at KPN, Microsoft and the GSMA (or the internationa...
#12 CHINA: Researching Stem Cells and Women in Science
December 23, 2021 21:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBMy guest today is Professor Gu Ying, she works at BGI in Shenzhen, China. She is Deputy Director at BGI-Research, China. She has a background in Oncology and Biotechnology and a PhD in Molecular and Developmental Biology. In the second half of our episode, we have an open conversation about the position of women in academia in China, the opportunities and the challenges.
#11 TAIWAN: Photonics Research in Taiwan and the Netherlands
September 08, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBPhotonics is the technology that focuses on the generation, transport, and detection of light waves and light particles, also called photons. Photonic solutions are a response to the growing need in the areas of communication, food production, living comfort, industrial digitization, and health. In this episode, we invited two professors from Taiwan and the Netherlands. To discuss the development situation of photonics in the two areas. During the discussion, they also mention the more pos...
#10 TAIWAN: The Innovation in Semiconductor - In the view of ASML
July 31, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBIn modern life, it needs chips to keep our smart devices functioning. Chip manufacturing is the so-called 'semiconductor' industry. It is a highly technology-integrated industry in which innovation plays a vital role to develop new technology. ASML is in the leading position in the chip manufacturing process. The key to having such success is to use the power of innovation, 'open innovation. In this episode, we invited Boudewijn Sluijk, Director of Strategic Marketing from ASML to share how...
#10 TAIWAN: The Light of Innovation in Chip Making
July 31, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBASML is in the leading position in the chip manufacturing process. The key to having such success is to use the power of innovation, or “open innovation.” In this episode, we invited Boudewijn Sluijk, Director of Strategic Marketing from ASML, to share how they think about open innovation within the company and at the industrial scale. Our modern life is driven by chips. Chip manufacturing is known as “semiconductor industry,” a highly technology-integrated industry in which innovation play...
#9 TAIWAN: The Dutch Story Behind TSMC
June 18, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry. In this episode, we will be talking about the rising of the Semiconductor industry in Taiwan. We invite Prof. Mila Davids (the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and Dr. ChunPu Lin (Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taiwan) to join us and share the story of TSMC and the story of the Semiconductor industry. In the last part of the episode, we also talked ...
#8 SINGAPORE: The tiger on the table - small and big medical data
May 17, 2021 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBWelcome to the eight episode of Innovation Matters podcast brought to you by Netherlands Innovation Network. Today, we are back with the researchers of Singapore National Eye Center. Last time we talked about the development of SELENA+ the AI tool to detect diabetes related eye disease and the impact of covid of digitalization in the health care sector in Singapore. We are here with Professor Wong, Professor Tan and Professor Ting who are Ophtamologists at Singapore National Eye Center, an...
#8 SINGAPORE: The tiger on the table - small and big medical data
May 17, 2021 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBWelcome to the eight episode of Innovation Matters podcast brought to you by Netherlands Innovation Network. Today, we are back with the researchers of Singapore National Eye Center. Last time we talked about the development of SELENA+ the AI tool to detect diabetes related eye disease and the impact of covid of digitalization in the health care sector in Singapore. We are here with Professor Wong, Professor Tan and Professor Ting who are Ophtamologists at Singapore National Eye Center, an...
#7 CHINA: Lab grown meat, a promising alternative
May 06, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBNanjing leads China in Pushing cultured meat. In November 2019 scientists from Nanjing Agricultural University created China's first piece of cultured pork made of stem cells from the muscle tissue of pigs, a milestone in the industry. In this episode we will talk to Dr. Ding's Shijie, associate professor at the Nanjing Agricultural University in China and CTO at a startup called Nanjing Zhouzi Future Food Technology. Or in English Joe’s Future Food. As part of the research team led by Pr...
#6 SINGAPORE: AI & Health
April 19, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 15.1 MBSingapore and The Netherlands both face an increasing pressure on the healthcare system, due to a rapidly ageing population. Digitalisation in general, and use of AI specifically, is one of the ways to address this issue. In this episode we will discuss the use of AI or artificial intelligence in health care in Singapore. Which types of AI are currently used and which ones are promising? What will be lasting impacts of COVID on the healthcare system? How do researchers, doctors and the priva...
#5 CHINA: The BugDrug Project
March 09, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBA large number of patients do not respond well to commonly used drugs. Some patients even suffer from side effects. In Europe alone, about 3.5% of hospital admissions are related to side effects of medicines. Many patients are not treated properly because they do not respond or respond poorly to medicines. In this episode, Claire Selbeck talks to Professor Fu. As a recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant, Dr Jingyuan Fu offers a solution to this problem by changing the bacteria that live in...
#4 CHINA: Plant-based proteins
January 14, 2021 02:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBChina consumes 28 percent of the world's meat, twice as much as the U.S. The U.S. already has advanced available products such as Beyond Sausage and the Impossible Burger. In China, a variety of mock meat products have long been available because of the country's Buddhist roots. Buddhists eat a partially or fully vegetarian diet. However, this industry has not yet begun producing the so-called 2.0 plant-based meats; products that are attractive not only to vegetarians but also to meat eaters...
#3 China: Intellectual Property Rights
December 23, 2020 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBFormally, intellectual property rights have been acknowledged and protected in China since the 1980s. In 2001, China became a member of the world trade organization. A premise of this was that China had to address some international concerns about its IPR system. Despite of this, some concerns remain. President Trump has repeatedly called out China for theft of intellectual property. In various reports on doing business in China, such as the 2016 China Business Climate Survey Report of the ...
#3 CHINA: Intellectual Property Rights
December 23, 2020 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBFormally, intellectual property rights have been acknowledged and protected in China since the 1980s. In 2001, China became a member of the world trade organization. A premise of this was that China had to address some international concerns about its IPR system. Despite of this, some concerns remain. President Trump has repeatedly called out China for theft of intellectual property. In various reports on doing business in China, such as the 2016 China Business Climate Survey Report of the ...
#2 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - 3 innovative scientific approaches
September 21, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBThe world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050. In this episode we will continue to talk about AMR, this time with three researchers, who all tackle t...
#2 CHINA: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - 3 innovative scientific approaches
September 21, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBThe world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050. In this episode we will continue to talk about AMR, this time with three researchers, who all tackle t...
#1 Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - introduction from CN and NL
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBThe world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050. In this episode we will talk with Dr. Maarten van Dongen of the European platform AMR-insights and Dr....
#1 CHINA: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) - introduction from CN and NL
September 03, 2020 04:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBThe world is fighting two pandemics at the same time – COVID19 and the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR occurs when bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, making their infections harder to treat. In Europe, approximately 25.000 people die every year because of drug resistant infections. It is estimated that AMR will kill an extra 10 million people globally by 2050. In this episode we will talk with Dr. Maarten van Dongen of the European platform AMR-insights and Dr....