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Creating your own startup is the best business school you can think of. Beforehand I thought: this is gonna be interesting, it’s gonna be a wild ride. And it even happened to be much wilder, much more interesting than I’d expected.

Moniek Tromp, Professor of Materials Chemistry in Groningen, is pleased with initiatives that encourage entrepreneurship in academia: ‘Earmarked money to stimulate valorization, such as at the Faculty of Impact, can make just the difference in bringing research to the market.'

Creating your own startup is the best business school you can think of. Beforehand I thought: this is gonna be interesting, it’s gonna be a wild ride. And it even happened to be much wilder, much more interesting than I’d expected.

Green hydrogen has emerged as a promising energy carrier in the transition to cleaner energy systems. However, producing green hydrogen remains a significant challenge.

At Faculty of Impact, we’re thrilled to introduce three remarkable fellows who embarked on their entrepreneurial journey with us in May last year. Yvonne Derks, Patrick Dekker, and Arjan Stoppelenburg are transforming groundbreaking research into ventures that will drive real societal change.

Throughout the Faculty of Impact program, Sem and his team explored multiple markets while refining their core technology. Although their initial target market remains central to their work, the rapid advancements in AI have led them to expand their approach.