Innovation projects

We make innovation work

SURFnet is continuously working on modernizing and improving its network and services. We don't do this on our own, but in collaboration with national and international partners in higher education, research and business.

Our projects are partly funded by the Dutch government.

SURFnet participates in these innovation projects

GigaPort
SURFworks
SURFnet/Kennisnet Innovation Programme
International collaboration

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ESSAY

Innovation considered

This essay is about taking a practical approach to successful innovation, one that is not primarily based on Dutch knowledge input but that focuses mainly on ensuring the key feature of innovation: acceptance in the Netherlands of new inventions. We illustrate this by describing the aims and set-up of SURFnet and the lessons it has learned in its GigaPort projects, in which new products and new combinations gained more rapid acceptance in the Netherlands than elsewhere.

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