The Netherlands gets its own institute for groundbreaking innovation
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In the United States, the research institute DARPA is often cited as an important source of new technology. Many people know the internet and the coronavirus vaccine, and the DARPA institute is linked to the development of both. The institute funds research into ideas that are still far from the market and that may only become practical many years from now.
Now the Netherlands is getting such an institute too. The aim is to give researchers the space to start risky and ambitious projects. Those projects can bring about major changes, but it is not always certain that they will succeed. For that reason, the institute works differently from ordinary research programmes, in which results often have to become visible more quickly.
Experts say that the Netherlands is strong in many areas, for example in engineering, healthcare and agriculture. With its own institute, the government hopes that this knowledge will be used better and that more new companies and jobs will emerge. However, it is still an open question how exactly the institute will be organised and how much money it will receive.
The new institute must therefore show whether it can achieve as much in the Netherlands as the American example does. For the coming years, it will be important to follow which projects are chosen and what results they produce.
Sources: AD.nl
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