This website received the AnySurfer label, a quality mark for accessible websites in Belgium. For more information, please visitwww.anysurfer.be.

Go to page content
Skip navigation. Page content starts here.

Focus: knowledge valorisation as question, the Spin-Off as answer

Three VITO spin-offs in top gear, a following in the research phase

There is all too often a gap between scientific research and its valorisation in the economy and society, and spin-offs are a way to close this gap. “It is for good reason that the number of spin-offs born of our knowledge centre is one of the key indicators of VITO's performance ”, says Director of Energy, Gerrit Jan Schaeffer. “VITO develops knowledge not for the sake of knowledge, but for the creative answers its scientific research offers to society's questions.” Terra Energy, Bluways and Bio Diesel Company are living proof that VITO’s spin-off strategy works.

Read the full article (PDF - New window)