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TNO CEO says the Netherlands must accelerate: “By 2030, I want to help create two billion-euro companies.”
Tjark Tjin-a-Tsoi, CEO of TNO: “We need to go beyond invention and more often bring innovations to the final stage: world-class companies like ASML that deliver both global success and economic impact.” (Dutch article.)

'De Telegraaf' article summer interview with Tjark Tjin-a-Tsoi
Learning is a lifelong journey, not something that ends with a diploma.

The Achilles' heel of AI is a soldering technique from the 1980s.

High Tech Binders on BNR Summer Series: “Making Dutch Roads More Sustainable

British sector peer acquires start-up Carbyon
Both companies develop technology to capture CO₂ directly from the atmosphere. (Dutch article)

Airhive acquires Carbyon, creating a European leader in low-cost direct air capture technology

Record funding of €330 million: will Nearfield Instruments soon become as indispensable as ASML?
Chip equipment maker Nearfield Instruments has secured €330 million in the largest funding round ever for a Dutch deep-tech company. (Dutch article)

TNO spin-off LeydenJar: winner of the 2026 Peter Wennink Tech Award an achievement TNO is very proud of.

Prodrive in Eindhoven will assemble chips for TNO tech participation Fortaegis: “A European partner was a requirement.”
Technology company Prodrive will manufacture Fortaegis’ ‘unbreakable’ chip systems at scale. For Fortaegis, having a European partner was a strict strategic requirement: “In the event of an emergency, you want the ecosystem to be based in Europe.” (Dutch article)

Breakthrough at TNO: ultra-thin printed electronics applied directly to the skin. “This will become a new industry.”

New TNO spin-off featured in de Volkskrant: Perovion Technologies.
Read how they are scaling TNO’s perovskite solar foil technology and, in doing so, strengthening the European solar energy sector. “That is the future. Quite something, isn’t it?” says Sjoerd Veenstra, co-founder and CTO of Perovion. (Dutch article)

The fact that 'de Volkskrant' describes our spin-off Nearfield Instruments as the “ASML of the future” shows what is possible when innovation and entrepreneurship come together.
Not one ASML, but several. The fact that 'de Volkskrant' describes our spin-off Nearfield Instruments as the “ASML of the future” shows what is possible when innovation and entrepreneurship come together. (Dutch article)

Broadcast Solutions and Sportway Media Group have jointly acquired Studio Automated

Almost €1 billion invested in Dutch startups in the first quarter

Inside Noura El Ouajdi’s Vision for Redesigning Hiring

In a conversation with Follow the Money, Rinke Zonneveld discusses Nearfield Instruments.

Michiel Hartman co-founder and CEO at Blue Heart Energy at rainmakers.fm

The printed circuit board is overdue for a revolution.

TNO launches Perovion Technologies

Dutch AI language model GPT‑NL now ready for testing, including with the Gem chatbot.
GPT‑NL, the AI language model purpose‑built for the Netherlands by TNO, the ICT cooperative SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute, is now being tested by its first customers. (Dutch spoken)

Thermoacoustic heat pump on the market in spring 2027

Pilot jacket gives Eindhoven start‑up wings: ‘After tests with the air force, things really took off’.
Strong interest from NATO armies in high‑tech fighter jackets. Using sensors and small motors, they keep pilots alert and can warn them of impending danger. (Dutch article.)

LionVolt’s European super‑battery is one step closer.
The time has finally come. At LionVolt in Eindhoven, the first batches of lithium‑metal anodes will soon be rolling off the production line. (Dutch article)

ABP Invests in LeydenJar, Completing Capital Raise to Launch Mass Production Phase
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