€1 billion tech fund launched in major boost for Dutch startups

Organs-on-chips, recyclable wind turbine blades, and robotic farmers — these are just some of the technologies earmarked for funding under a new growth programme approved by the Dutch government last week.  NXTGEN HIGHTECH will invest €1 billion over the next seven years in an effort to make the Netherlands Europe’s leading high-tech cluster.  The programme is the initiative of prominent Dutch innovation accelerators including Holland High Tech, TNO, and FME, along wi