Netherlands Innovation Network

Tag: internet of things

  • Webinar on IP protection for ICT businesses in China

    On Thursday January 17th, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM CET, the China IPR SME helpdesk is organizing a webinar on Intellectual Property Protection in China for European ICT Businesses. The webinar addresses the practical steps necessary to protect and enforce IPR in China, including:” How to register your intellectual property as patents, trade marks and…

  • China’s Ministry of Education improves research project management

    last week China’s Ministry of Education issued an Administrative Note, aiming at improving Chinese university’s research project management. According to the note, a profound research project management system should be strengthened in each university that carries out research projects, under which the university, relevant departments involved in research management and individual research team leaders are…

  • Dutch Professor Runner-up in Peking University Young Teachers Competition

    Dutch professor Thijs Kouwenhoven is the first foreigner to ever win a prize at the Peking University Young Teachers Competition. At the twelfth edition of this Young Teachers Competition, he won the second prize for Science and Engineering. Thijs Kouwenhoven is a Bairen Research Professor from the Netherlands at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and…

  • China at tipping point implementing ‘real’ Smart Grids

    China successfully expanded and upgraded its electricity infrastructure in recent years. A strong domestic industrial base for transmission and distribution infrastructure equipment had been developed. The next step to make the grid ‘real smart’ and decentralized will be more difficult, according to a recent study of NOST China officer Dirk Jan Boudeling. With 7,3 billion…

  • China tested its auto-driving car on highway

    China successfully tested its auto-driving car on a piece of highway between the city of Beijing and Tianjin last weekend. This 114 km journey took the self-driving vehicle 85 minutes at an average speed of 79 km per hour. The car is able to sense its environment through radar placed on top and cameras installed…

  • BrainBridge – Philips, Zhejiang University, TU Eindhoven

    A little over a week ago Philips and TU Eindhoven came to Zhejiang University in Hangzhou for their annual board meeting of the Brain Bridge program. The ‘Brain Bridge’ (BB) Program has been initiated in November 2005 through a tri-party international cooperation among the European host (TU/e: Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands), Philips Research,…

  • China sets High-speed railway target

    China will have established a high-speed railway network covering almost all cities by 2015. The State Council issued a plan for building a comprehensive transportation network during the 2011-2015 period. According to the plan, construction of the high-speed railway network should be completed by the end of 2015, with a total operating length of more…

  • 9th International IP Forum held in Shanghai

    The theme of the forum held on 8 November was “Intellectual Property and Soft Power of Cities”. Following an important subject of the Chinese policy of the National Patent Development Strategy (2011 – 2020) which aims: “10 Model cities that can comprehensively utilize the patent system and have excellent intellectual property market environment” During the…

  • TUDelft opens 3 research centres in China

    TU Delft opened a new research centre in China today. It is a collaboration with Wuhan University in the fields of Geo-information, Geodesy and Remote Sensing. This is the first of three new collaborations in China to be launched by TU Delft this week. The other projects are a centre for Water research (Nanjing) and…

  • Pujiang Innovation Forum held last weekend in Shanghai

    Initiated in 2008, the ‘Pujiang Innovation Forum’ is annually jointly organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Municipal Government of Shanghai. Current chair is Mr. Xu Guanhua, the former minister of MOST, member of the Standing Committee of CPPCC, director of the Education, Science, Culture, Healthcare and Sports Subcommittee, and academician…