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The province of South Holland has allocated a financial contribution of € 3 million via the Opportunities for West program, to several innovation campuses in the region, including the Biotech Campus Delft! These campuses bring together an innovation ecosystem in which companies and knowledge institutions work together. They play an essential role in realizing the ambitions in the Growth Agenda South Holland, stimulating innovation, creating new business and reducing CO₂. The money is intended to strengthen the campuses and increase cooperation with SME parties. In addition, the grant promotes cooperation between the innovation campuses.

Bouke de Jong recently joined the Planet B.io team as Science & Technology officer.
Bouke has vast experience in scaling and manufacturing nutritional products in food and sustainable materials. Moreover, he brings a proven track record of working for both US startups and corporate entities. He will take responsibility on all activities within Planet B.io that require technical and scaleup knowledge. 

We had a talk with him about his career and experience.

On 29 September 2023, Cindy Gerhardt was awarded the Zilveren Zandloper for her instrumental role in developing and strengthening the start-up ecosystem in industrial biotechnology in the Netherlands in the past few years.

Biotech enthusiasts and key stakeholders gathered at the Biotech Campus Delft on Thursday, September 7th, 2023, to celebrate the grand opening of Planet B.io's newly renovated second multi-tenant building, named ‘ Van Iterson House’.

Planet B.io, the driving force behind the innovation hub at the Biotech Campus Delft and StartLife, a leading agrifoodtech startup accelerator based in Wageningen, have embarked on an exciting mutual partnership. A natural partnership as the domains of food technology and biotechnology increasingly cross paths. Planet B.io will become a so-called Program Partner of StartLife, meaning that biotech-oriented startups in the ecosystem of StartLife will be proactively connected to the network of facilities and expertise of Planet B.io. Vice versa, the agrifoodtech oriented startups in the ecosystem of Planet B.io will be connected to the hub in Wageningen including a wide range of programming and mentors.  

At Planet B.io, we firmly believe that progress is best achieved through collaboration and fruitful partnerships. That is why we actively seek out opportunities to partner with esteemed service providers who are trusted by our cherished community members. In that spirit, we are happy to announce our collaboration with Service Laboratory Delft ‘SLD’– the Quality Control Laboratory for Food, Feed & Pharma, based on the Biotech Campus Delft.

In 2020, the non-profit organization Planet B.io was established to develop the Biotech Campus Delft (BCD) into an open innovation campus for industrial biotechnology. Planet B.io, founded and financially supported by five partners (DSM, Delft University of Technology, the Municipality of Delft, the Province of South Holland, and InnovationQuarter), has been successful in growing the number of companies on the BCD, and creating a supporting network of experts. Today, Planet B.io is happy to welcome a special, sixth partner to its Supervisory Board. ASR Dutch Science Park Fund and Planet B.io will team up to further develop the Biotech Campus Delft into a world-leading campus focusing on modern biotechnology.

Biotech innovations have the potential to create disruptive solutions for global challenges like climate change, food shortage, and much more. As a startup, entering an established market that is being steered by existing policies, value chains and consumers, can be a hurdle. In this article, we discuss the importance of Public Affairs to support commercialization of biotech innovations.   

The beginning of a new year is always a great opportunity to take stock of the one that has just ended. We are proud to have 16 amazing biotech companies settled in our building and of what they have accomplished over the year. We are happy to see our community outside of Delft growing too, with new Planet-B.io members and expanding networks that support our mission; Creating a better world with biotech.