Life Science
Incubator Leiden

Opening doors
in Life Sciences
& Health

Introduction

About the
incubator

unlock_ 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, we provide the structure, the program, the 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 animal and human lives healthier and longer; 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.

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About the
team

The unlock_ team is a varied bunch, with different backgrounds but they share a passion for entrepreneurship in Life Sciences and Health. Meet all the members of the unlock_ team!

Meet the team

Tailored to help you
make lives healthier
and longer

May 30, 2023

ExCulture wins 2023 Philips Innovator Award

ExCulture took home the Innovator Award at the 2023 Philips Innovation Award grand finale in Rotterdam on May 15th, 2023.

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PLNT is the place in the Leiden region where ambitions find and strengthen each other. Because PLNT believes in the power of ideas, they provide a place where talented people, diverse startups and challenges meet each other. And when those worlds meet, growth follows.

 

Established 35 years ago, the Leiden Bio Science Park has evolved into the Netherlands’ largest Life Sciences & Health cluster, connecting talent, researchers and entrepreneurs to work on achieving healthy lives for everyone. Within the district you will find educational and research institutions, unique facilities and valuable collaboration on the entire drug development chain.

The Leiden Bio Science Park is a hub for progress. The team focuses on the positioning of the district and its community of more than 20,000 innovators. With access to Knowledge, Innovation, Human Capital, Capital and Market, it’s streamlined to be the most efficient learning and production process between and within these learning communities.

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Participants

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

“Today’s entrepreneurs open the door to a healthier life for humanity.”

Our mission

Make life
healthier
with ideas

Entrepreneurship is essential for the Life Science & Health sector. Today’s entrepreneurs open the door to a healthier life for people and animals in the near future. We believe that those entrepreneurs who are convinced that their ideas can make people and animals’ lives healthier, will be the ones to do just that.

Get in touch

We love speaking to people with ideas, or questions. So whatever yours are, please don't hesitate to contact us.

+31 (0)6 53908761
hello@unlock.bio
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