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Anne de Graaf

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Griffin Discoveries March 30, 2010
Bluelarix Designworks February 22, 2010
JarcoConsultancy February 18, 2010
Clinical Reach Drug Development b.v. February 18, 2010
Qserve Group February 18, 2010
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27th Montreux Symposium on LC/MS February 22, 2010
Immuno Valley International Conference February 22, 2010
Figon Dutch Medicines Days February 22, 2010
Dutch Clinical Trials Foundation - Annual Congress February 22, 2010
Intervet International BV and Immuno Valley symposium February 22, 2010
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Life Sciences Center Amsterdam May 03, 2010
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BPEweb April 17, 2010
OMFL April 08, 2010
Gemeente Almere April 01, 2010
Ministry of Economic Affairs April 01, 2010
Griffin Discoveries logo March 30, 2010
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Marcel Levi proposed as successor Louise Gunning April 15, 2010
OncoMethylome Appoints Dr. Jan Groen as CEO April 15, 2010
AMC to lead artificial pancreas programme March 31, 2010
Agendia to Play Pivotal Role in ISPY-2 Trial for Breast Cancer March 20, 2010
Agendia Launches BluePrint(TM) Expanding Breast Cancer Product Offering March 25, 2010
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It’s business stupid

What is it with the Dutch that they have such difficulty grabbing business opportunities in a changing world? We have the brains, we have the money and the opportunities are plenty. Still, during the last 40 years hardly any company of substantial size has emerged next to the old industry in the AEX.  Oil, food, materials and financial services dominate the landscape.

We have left the environmental challenges to environmentalists, rather then building innovative businesses in solar or wind energy to help face them. We have exported our knowledge on agriculture around the world, and now that we can more intelligently engineer crops we let the opportunity pass due to invalid arguments around GMOs. Now that  “kweekersrecht” is being substituted by patent law we complain instead of adapt.

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