SBIR / Innovation Impact Challenge — Two Decades of Dutch Public Procurement for Innovative SMEs
Since 2004 the Dutch government has funded SMEs through phased SBIR R&D contracts on behalf of ministries, spending about EUR 8M/year, but …
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Since 2004 the Dutch government has funded SMEs through phased SBIR R&D contracts on behalf of ministries, spending about EUR 8M/year, but …
Since 2015 Dutch NGO IVN has planted 200+ tennis-court-sized 'Tiny Forests' nationwide. Wageningen University's citizen-science monitoring recorded 595-636 species across the network …
Between 2006 and 2019, Dutch authorities completed 34 flood-conveyance projects (€2.3bn) along the IJssel, Waal, Nederrijn and Lek — lowering dikes, widening …
Netherlands peatland carbon standard: farmers raise groundwater in drained peat meadows earning SNK-verified credits at €75–115/tCO₂e. Peat subsidence is ~2.8% of Dutch …
Dutch government targeted 40 deprived districts from 2008 (EUR 216m public, ~EUR 1bn from housing corporations in 2008-2011). SCP's 2013 evaluation found …
Two heads are better than one.” It’s a familiar expression—and one that businesses might want to heed. The authors’ study of 87 …
The Dutch national algorithm register is voluntary: 291 entries by Feb 2024, and a 2025 Bits of Freedom audit found only 4 …
DUO's rule-based risk score for student-grant residency checks, used 2012–2023, was found to discriminate indirectly against students with a non-European migration background; …
Dutch police used the Crime Anticipation System to predict 125x125m crime hotspots nationwide from 2017. A 2025 review found it correctly predicted …
The Netherlands' MJPO programme resolved 166 of 176 ecological barriers by 2018, building a network of 2,100+ road and rail wildlife crossings; …
Since 2008 Rotterdam has paid building owners up to €500 per m³ of stormwater retained by green roofs, an avoided-cost alternative to …
SURF and Npuls built EduGenAI, a sovereign, pseudonymised gateway to open-source and commercial LLMs (OpenAI, Llama, Mistral, Claude) for Dutch mbo/hbo/wo institutions. …
Since 2020, Dutch government-funded Techleap.nl has run 'Rise', an eight-week cohort programme for scale-ups. A rare independent 2023 government evaluation found the …
Silt dredged from Lake Markermeer is used to build an archipelago of new marsh islands. Five years of monitoring show 47 breeding …
Over 10,000 m² of smart blue-green roofs on social and private housing, emptied ahead of forecast storms to cut peak sewer loads; …
TU/e researchers analysed 1,450 annotated student–chatbot interactions from 70 graded STEM essays and found a strong positive correlation between interaction quality and …
Rotterdam scored ~30,000 welfare recipients for fraud risk with a 315-variable model built with Accenture; journalists found language and gender bias, and …
An independent second-year audit of 39 Dutch municipal chatbots found only 10% of citizen questions answered correctly, with 64% wrong and identical …
Utrecht retrofitted all 316 municipal bus shelters with sedum roofs for pollinators and rainwater capture, while a citywide subsidy covers 50% of …
Together with Mission Female, the Authors identified three countries as the object of investigation for the central study question “What are barriers …
The overall aim of TechConnect is to encourage 50,000 people from underrepresented groups to follow a tech study programme and get a …
CoderDojo (Netherlands) aims to create awareness for the need of a basic understanding of today's technology. It strives for children to be …
Rotterdam's 2013 water square stores ~1,700 m³ of rainwater in three basins while serving as a sports and leisure space; cost ~€4.5M, …
Utrecht converted all 316 of its bus shelters to sedum green roofs by April 2019, funded entirely by advertising revenue at no …
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