Opening doors in Life Sciences & Health
Leiden's life science & health startup
community
Introduction
About unlock_
unlock_ – part of startup incubator PLNT Leiden – is where Life Science and Health entrepreneurs, startups and scale-ups in the Netherlands crack open global health problems. At the Leiden Bio Science Park, unlock_ provides the startup support, structure, programs, network and the instruments you need to turn an idea into a solution.
Startups at the Leiden Bio Science Park find the keys for making humanity healthier; solutions that have a huge effect on all our well-being. These could be drug innovations, but also medical instruments, or a new technology that doesn’t exist yet.
Tailored to help you make lives healthier and longer
Our
Programs
Our Programs
We provide tailored entrepreneurship programs that open doors for Life Science & Health startups to the rich ecosystem of businesses, research institutions and knowledge centers at the Leiden Bio Science Park.
Phase
01
Activation
Entrepreneurship should be engrained in society, a valid carreer option for everyone with a great idea. unlock_ provides a place to encourage these ideas and the people behind them.
Phase
02
Pre-incubation
Is your idea an idea worth creating a company for? This is the central question in the pre-incubation phase. The Pre-incubation Program helps students, researchers, entrepreneurs and employees validate all their assumptions they made in their business cases.
Phase
03
Incubation
Starting your LSH or Biotech company comes with many challenges. The goal of the Incubation Program is to support early stage founders, researchers, and employees, in successfully navigating the first stages of your startup or spin-off.
Phase
04
Acceleration
Full speed ahead, the Acceleration Program is the final program of unlock_. In this phase we find out what companies need to help them grow as fast as they possibly can.
Featured events
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- 17:00
Workshop Creating Great Life Sciences Presentations
Get in touch
We love speaking to people with ideas, or questions. So whatever yours are, please don’t hesitate to contact us.