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Thursday 25th of March Philips, Mediaguild and High Tech Campus Eindhoven awarded EFFECT Photonics for their business plan.

The Amsterdam Antwerp Challenge is a local business plan competition for international talent modeled on the business plan competitions of M.I.T. and Cambridge University. Main goals of the competition concern bringing together technical and business talent, currently fragmented across the Amsterdam-Antwerp corridor, and to stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in this region.

About EFFECT Photonics
The demand for communication bandwidth is higher than ever and becomes increasingly complex. Management and energy consumption are becoming bottlenecks for future growth. Effect Photonics, a spin off from the internationally renowned Cobra Research Institute, develops high end Photonic Integrated Circuits (PiC’s). These PiC’s solve the management and energy issues related to the growth in communication bandwidth. The first product that will enter the market is a patented tunable laser that is 100 times faster than currently available, far less complex and with more flexibility. First samples are shipped to interested customers in the first quarter of 2011. Volume production is expected in 2012.

The largest target for this product is the domestic fiber market. An estimated 300.000 devices per year will be needed in 2015 to answer the demand for bandwidth. As the high specifications for this market are developed, sub markets can be targeted with intermediate devices. Founded by Boudewijn Docter (PhD Cobra), Effect Photonics is now actively scouting for expansion of the team with an experienced CEO in the electronics or telecom business. Roughly € 1.3m of investment capital is needed to start up this company which could be paid back approximately within four to five years.

EFFECT Photonics won € 5000,- and coaching to start-up their business.
Philips, Mediaguild and High Tech Campus Eindhoven will organise the second AA-Challenge in the autumn of 2010.

More information: www.aachallenge.nl

Emerce and CM are launching a brand new event called the mobile convention on April 1st 2010 and as you may have suspected Incubator Exchange is part of it. In one of our new theme based sessions, we will invite a selection of corporations with a strong involvement in mobile, incubators with mobile spin-offs and pioneering mobile visionaries and startups for a private get together for all things mobile in Beurs van Berlage.

Attendees for the closed expert session will get the chance to attend the Mobile Convention event afterwards, and get a taste of new possibilites and opportunities in the mobile realm. With over 30 keynote speakers among which Russell Buckley (AdMob) and Steve Wing (The Guardian), Raimo van der Klein (Layar) and Emil Salonen (Mobiento), this is a not to miss opportunity to stay ahead. Please send us an email (info at incubatorexchange.nl ) if you want to attend (very limited seating capacity).
See: incubatorexchange.nl

The Amsterdam-based organizations Syntens, Media Guild and the Chamber of Commerce (KvK) organize the 4th consecutive Creative Tour during PICNIC ‘09. (more…)

After two successful editions of the Incubator Exchange at ABN Amro and Media Guild, it’s time to expand. The next edition will be held at Emerce’s eDay; one of the biggest business events in Holland. And since Holland got to small for the Incubator Exchange, the upcoming edition will invite Incubators from all over Europe.

ABN Amro’s Dialogues House and Media Guild are very pleased with the new collaboration with Emerce. At the news section of eDay’s website, there’s an article about the Incubator Exchange (for Dutch readers only). Check it out here!

The voting for the The Europas is open: the technology innovation awards for European tech companies, held on July 9 in London. E is one of the candidates, so go to the website and get them nominated!

The Europas aka The TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 will recognize and celebrate the most compelling technology start-ups, Internet and mobile innovations of the past year (Summer 08 - Summer 09), with the tech community invited to have a say in which finalists should be recognized. Leading lights of the the tech community will be invited to give away the awards to the winners.