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Benelux Innovators: Let’s Talk!

Request a virtual coffee with Early Innovation Partner Tess Korthout and gain insights into how a collaboration with J&J might benefit your innovation or startup.

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Are you a scientist, innovator or entrepreneur interested in exploring partnering with pharma? Or are you seeking insights on how to make your project or start-up partner-ready? Do you want to know if your science may be of strategic interest to J&J? Request a virtual meet-up session with Tess Korthout. She is keen to discuss your science and potential collaborations through Johnson & Johnson Innovation.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation seeks to advance early-stage innovation of biotech and life science research groups, entrepreneurs, and startups through strategic partnerships, providing access to expertise, global networks, and resources.

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Tess Korthout, external innovation scout for Johnson & Johnson Innovation

Meet Tess

As external innovation scout for Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Tess connects with entrepreneurial scientists across the Benelux. As she is trained as a scientist, she has a distinct understanding of both the needs of early-stage researchers and of pharmaceutical companies. She is therefore uniquely positioned to support the creation of mutually beneficial strategic partnerships.

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About Johnson & Johnson Innovation

At Johnson & Johnson Innovation, our mission is to curate and cultivate the world’s most promising, early-stage healthcare innovations. We leverage our unmatched scientific and commercialization expertise to work with entrepreneurs with the goal to help transform great ideas into life-changing solutions.

Depending on where an idea is in its life cycle, our collaborators can easily tap into our broad and unique range of collaboration models and capabilities. These include:

  • Early innovation collaboration and partnerships, to connect early-stage innovators across the innovative medicine and medtech business segments to our deep scientific, development and business expertise, experience and resources
  • Strategic deployment of venture capital through Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, to provide investment capital and long-term support
  • Our global incubator network, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS, to provide access to resources, mentorship and entrepreneurial programs, and optionally capital-efficient lab space.
We are looking for transformational ideas aligned to our innovative medicine and medtech business. View our areas of interest here.

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