News 2009

 

20th February 2009 - Sabina Renshof speaks at " Omega Centauri"  On February 20th Sabina Renshof will present to the members of this newly founded association for Science, Technology and Space some examples of succesfull Science to Business in the Dutch Space Sector. For attending please contact Omega Centauri! We congratulate Omega Centauri with this initiative to combine science, technology and space!

January/February 2009- Science to Business in Boston From the 30th january to the 12th of februay Bureau BD visited Boston to meet industrial liaison officers and technology transfer officers of Harvard and MIT to prepare the 9th S2B Conference in Europe.

 

News 2008

December 2008 - European premiere ´Orphans of Apollo´ On December 17th the european premiere of Orphans of Apollo took place in Delft. Bureau BD together with the NVR, Space Horizon en Millhouse Photography sponsered this succesful launch of the movie in Europe.
"The documentary film "Orphans of Apollo" is the greatest space story never told. The film tells the extraordinary true story of a small group of entrepreneurs who felt, 'orphaned' by President Nixon's decision to end the NASA Apollo Moon program and the subsequent years of nominal space activity. This band of brothers took matters into their own hands, and commandeered the Russian Mir Space Station.  The rebellious, yet pioneering efforts launched the new commercial Space Revolution. This is the remarkable untold story of the greatest secret in the new space race."
All pictures of the event are taken by Fred Kamphues and availible on his website

On September 20th-22nd 2009 in Amsterdam, Bureau BD will organise in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & the Münster University of Applied Sciences a Science to Business Symposium. The working title is: "The Value of Strategic Alliances in Science-to-Business Relations". More news about subjects and speakers will follow soon.

June 2008 - Science to Business Community

The quote from George Bernard Shaw reflects the idea behind the Science to Business Expert Group. The S2B Expert Group is an initiative of Bureau BD. We would like to join with experts in the Science to Business Area to further develop this expertise. Sabina Renshof started 6 years ago her Science to Business activities for fundamental research institutes/groups in the Netherlands in the Space research sector. The Dutch governments ask scientific institutes to join with industries to jointly perform research which also should contribute to application oriented research.

We have met researchers in fundamental and applied research, each with their own approach, contacts and beliefs. We also met researchers form industry and business- managers who are not always aligned with academic researchers. For this reason we founded the Science to Business Community (Powered bij LinkedIn). Currently there are 155 members from all over the world and from various organisations and companies. For more information about the observations and goals please look here for more information.

News 2007

September 2007 - Bureau BD joins commercial agent network

"In order to support the commercial utilisation of the ISS and of other flights opportunities, and to provide a more effective end-to-end service to customers, ESA has set up a network of Commercial Agents in selected market sectors throughout Europe.
 
The Commercial Agents offer the most important help in developing customers’ initial business ideas into feasible projects. The Commercial Agent in charge of a project will support the customer in the entire process that leads to the submission of the Commercial Proposal to ESA, including helping the customer drafting the Commercial Proposal. Furthermore, the agents will help the customer identifying the required end-to-end services and negotiate the provisions of those services with the Industrial Partners of the Co-operation Agreement.

The Italian company INNOVA has been appointed as the Commercial Agent responsible for the materials and processes market sector. INNOVA coordinates the Europe-wide activities of the following companies in the materials and processes sector: KB&P (Germany), ISS Lab Ruhr GmbH (Germany), Bureau BD (The Netherlands), D’Appolonia (Italy), Centro Sviluppo Materiali (Italy) and the AGT Group (Italy)." (Source: ESA website)

22 March 2007 - Science to Business Symposium

In honour of BBD's 5-year anniversary a symposium on Science to Business is organised. BBD has invited three speakers from university and industry to elaborate on Science to Business. For more information browse our website and go see Symposium.

17 February 2007 Amsterdam - Dakar   -  BBD sponsors Foundation Kambengo 

BBD sponsors Team Sandstorm 1 on their trip to Dakar. All funds raised with this trip are for the benefit of the foundation Kambengo. Kambengo's mission is to improve healthcare in West-Africa. The team will depart from Amsterdam on the 17th of February. 4 friends will travel 21 days, 7000 kilometres in two old cars. We wish them all the luck and a safe trip! For more information on the route and their progress also check Amsterdam - Dakar.

 

Wilbert van der Vliet Joins Bureau BD Wilbert studied Applied Physics at the University of Rijswijk. For his internship he worked at TNO Science & Industry (Industrial Modelling and Control - Flow & Structural Dynamics). He investigated excessive noise levels, pulsations, in compressor systems. For his final thesis he worked at Philips Lighting, Roosendaal at the department GTD-CFL. The assignment was to investigate the possibilities to reduce mercury levels used to produce CFL lamps. Currently he his doing his masters Science and Innovation Management (SIM) at the University of Utrecht. The master SIM combines two fields: science and innovation studies. This knowledge can be used for example at BureauBD to understand the technological possibilities and the knowledge of innovation studies are used to analyse and realise the policy, management and strategy aspects of government and industry involved in the innovation process.   News 2006 October - NLR trained to sell… Ooh competition beware! NLR has finished a 6-month period of training with BBD and partners LTP and Kwekel. All business and marketing managers worked on selected cases which related to NLR daily practice. NLR has worked its way deeper into the market of avionica. The results of the cases are numerous: many new contacts have been created and even led to new fully commercial funded projects in the avionics industry.   September - ThermoLab – University of Ulm The ThermoLab consortium led by the University of Ulm in Germany is one of the Microgravity Application Projects facilitated by the European Space Agency. ThermoLab researches under microgravity the thermophysical properties of industrial alloys in the high-temperature range during the liquid state. The third project phase is about to start for ThermoLab. The continuation proposal has been submitted. An important evaluation criterion for continuation is industry participation. Thermolab has in cooperation with BBD successfully tightened the relationship with their current partners and added five new industry partners to the project. After evaluation by ESA it will become clear whether or not the project is granted a contribution and can continue. March …beyond Europe… BBD in Bahrain ! Drinking thee and smoking sheesa were not the only activities of BBD in Bahrain ! BBD has supported InCenter in preparing and selling a conference on Physical Distribution of Plastic Materials from the Middle East GCC countries to China and other areas. Over 50 people from Europe and the Gulf States joined the seminar and considered it to be well an arranged conference with high-quality speakers. Below a photo-impression of the conference.

 

 

 

December 2008 - Bureau BD moves to Breda

 

Bureau BD has moved from Baarn to Breda. The new office is now located in the Baronielaan 171G - 4818 PG Breda.

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