Partners

The Dutch Polymer Institute is a public-private partnership, a Leading Technology Institute, demanding and offering high quality polymer research. 

In 2010, DPI's partners are (amongst others) DPI Value Centre, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and around forty knowledge institutes and thirty companies worldwide.

Students switch to companies

The contacts with industrial companies that our scientists develop during their studies make it easier for them to switch to an industrial working environment. Over a 10-year period, some 250 students obtained their PhDs with DPI projects at our partner knowledge institutions. Many of our PhD and Post-Doc students were ultimately employed by our - mostly industrial - partners.

Transfer IP to companies
Knowledge transfer constitutes a large part of DPI's added value for our industrial partners. The number of patents generated by our research is increasing and DPI wishes to transfer these to our partners, industrial companies or knowledge institutes after at most 2,5 years.

More information DPI partnership?

If you are interested in a partnership with DPI, you can contact a DPI Programme Area Coordinator in order to get more detailed information. Should you be interested in legal information, please contact Shila de Vries.

DPI partnership for SME's

To utilize the innovative capacity of Small and Medium/sized Enterprises (SME) and to facilitate technology transfer, DPI wants to stimulate participation of SME's to its programmes. Two new participation possibilities have been developed: Basic participation and Group participation. For more information click here or contact Shila de Vries.