Research and innovation do not follow a one-way pipeline, university president says

News Tank Academic - Brussels - Interview #458972 - Published on 30/10/26 at 17:28
©  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Koen Janssen, President and chair of the Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology. - ©  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

The president of a university of technology has argued against seeing research and innovation as a one-way pipeline, where you do the research first and then deploy what comes out of it.

In an interview with News Tank on 28/10/2026, Koen Janssen, the President and chair of the Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands, stated: "At the European level, they present FP10 as coming first, and then ECF comes next. The two are complementary and they will be closely linked; one can learn from the other."

He was in Brussels to mark the 15th anniversary of EuroTech, a strategic partnership of six leading European universities for science and technology, of which TU/e is a member.

"If you are deploying new technology at scale, then you encounter problems. And…

©  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Koen Janssen, President and chair of the Executive Board of Eindhoven University of Technology. - ©  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)

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