Innovation & Impact

Technology transfer is the third core task of universities, in addition to education and research. The transfer and application of knowledge for the benefit of the economy and society is becoming increasingly important in national and international innovation policy, in which technical universities play a leading role. TU Delft sees it as its social task to propose groundbreaking technical-scientific solutions that contribute to impact for a better society.

Impact for a better society

Pioneering Tech

The leading platform in innovation, providing news, analysis and insights

Innovatieprojecten

Browse through over 300 innovative ideas that are developed at TU Delft

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16 February 2023

Clear conditions for rapid growth of university spin-offs

Universities will use standard deal term principles for the transfer of intellectual property to spin-offs.

10 January 2023

TU Delft in ROBUST with 3 new ICAI labs and AI clinics for SMEs thanks to NWO funding of 25 million euro

Today, the NWO announced that it is awarding the ROBUST programme 25 million euros. ROBUST, an initiative from the Innovation Centre for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), is a collaboration of 51 partners from industry, government, and the knowledge sector, including TU Delft. ROBUST's total budget is over 87 million euros, and with the new impetus from NWO, 17 labs and 170 PhD students will be added in 10 years.

28 November 2022

Investing in knowledge pays off

Without innovation ecosystems such as TU Delft Campus the Dutch economy would be smaller and less resilient, says the British research agency BiGGAR Economics.

08 November 2022

A new generation of high-tech equipment is just around the corner

AgTech Institute and RoboHouse are working with industry on advanced robotics for agriculture and horticulture

08 June 2022

And the winners of the TU Delft Impact Contest 2022 are... Smart Bra and CryoCOP

03 June 2022

Respyre takes home Philips Innovation Award 2022

18 May 2022

TechScout Venture Fund helps startups through earliest phase

16 May 2022

TU Delft provides expert training to Bain & Company on climate & energy

26 April 2022

The success of the Aerospace Innovation Hub: ‘It’s fantastic to see companies take off’

20 April 2022

Floating wind turbines change everything

In order to become climate neutral by 2050, the share of renewable energy generated at sea will need to increase significantly. Floating wind turbines, solar panels and tidal power plants will play a crucial role in this.

20 April 2022

Floating wind turbines change everything

14 April 2022

Growth Fund boosts sustainable aviation and next generation high tech

11 April 2022

Startup Mayht acquired by Sonos

11 April 2022

TU Delft participates in new European digitisation programme

03 February 2022

Delft once again best place for entrepreneurship

Collaborating with TU Delft

Through the mission 'Impact for a better society' TU Delft creates collaborations with industry, governments and knowledge institutions. We believe that multi-party collaborations are the key to accelerating innovations and bringing them to society faster.

Do you want to work together as a company with TU Delft? Read more about the possibilities here.

Corporate Innovation

Research and education at TU Delft regularly result in new technology inventions. The TU Delft strives to protect some of the intellectual ownership rights patent applications. Learn more about our patents.

Patents

If you are interested in collaborating with TU Delft in the form of internships, you can find the contacts and more faculty specific sources of information here.