These were established by the ministers of Education, Culture and Sciences, Economic Affairs, and Agriculture, Nature Management, and Fisheries, to reinforce fundamental strategic research that is relevant to trade and industry.

Dutch Polymer Institute
DPI is a foundation funded by Dutch industry, universities and the government which was set up to perform exploratory research in the area of polymer materials. DPI operates at the interface of universities and industry, linking the scientific skills of university research groups to the industrial need for innovation. DPI carries out pre-competitive research projects to add value to the scientific community through scientific publications and to the industrial community through the creation of intellectual property. DPI provides a unique platform for generating awareness of new technology, in which participating industrial companies, competitors in the market place, communicate on a pre-competitive basis to trigger innovation.
DPI integrates the scientific disciplines and know-how of universities into the “chain of knowledge” needed to optimise the conditions for making breakthrough inventions and triggering industrial innovation. DPI aims to combine scientific excellence with a genuinely innovative impact in industry, thereby creating a new mindset in both industrial and academic research.
DPI aims to fill the innovation gap between industry and universities and so resolve the Dutch Paradox of scientific excellence and lack of innovation. 

For more information, please contact:

Dutch Polymer Institute
Kennispoort, J.F. Kennedylaan 2
5612 AB Eindhoven
T +31 40 247 56 29
E info@polymers.nl
www.polymers.nl

Netherlands Institute for Metals Research
NIMR is centred on research groups from the universities of Delft, Eindhoven, Twente, Groningen and TNO Industry. The research of the NIMR is organised in so-called clusters. A cluster is a group of research projects aimed at a general scientific field. As several research groups participate in a cluster, the model gives rise to synergetic effects, supporting a multidisciplinary research approach.

For more information, please contact:
P.O. Box 5008, 2600 GA Delft, tel. +31 15 278 25 35, fax +31 15 278 25 91
E-mail: info@remove-this.nimr.nl