Untangle complexity of technology innovation

Who we are ?

An entry key for European industrial innovation network for entrepreneurs, companies, Small and Medium Entreprises, Business Angels and Venture Capital Funds.

What we do ?

TechBridgeOne's core mission is to challenge and enrich the world's best tech-based business ideas by linking them with cutting edge tech networks in Europe. 

Founder and Managing Director

Léopold Demiddeleer - Ph. D. - Physical Chemistry - ULB

Main fields of competences and experience

• Strategic business alignment of research and technology portfolios

• Research projects portfolio management in various domains: Organic printed electronics, Sensors materials, Polymer chemistry, Polymer processing, Catalysts, High throughput technologies, Environmental technologies, Renewable Energy, Fuel cells, electrolyzers and battery technologies…

• Global Open Innovation schemes set-up and management

• Intellectual property portfolio management

• Venture funding in United States, Europe, Asia

• Spin-Off creation and monitoring

• Universities - Industries partnership programs management worldwide

• Innovation, R&D management training and education programs

• Technology spin-out

Main positions held

• Executive V.P from 2000 to 2012

  • Solvay s.a. - New Business Development and Corporate Venturing - Belgium
    

• President from 2009-2013

  • EIRMA - (European Industrial Research Management Association)
    

• Strategy and Innovation Advisor

  • Puratos - Grand Bigard, Belgium

  • Institut Lafayette - Metz, France

  • Pharma Diagnostics - Grand Bigard, Belgium

  • EIT - Assessment Group - Brussels, Belgium

  • Natron Energy - CA - USA

  • Attract-eu - CERN - CH

  • Adionics - Paris - France

  • Energo - Paris - France

  • Energysquare - Paris -France

  • Aquality - Brussels - Belgium

  • Quantica - Berlin - Germany

  • Echopen - Paris - France

  • Enthought - LLN - Belgium

  • H55 - Sion - Switzerland

• Academic Advisory Boards

  • Georgia Institute of Technology - USA - Advisory Board & Director for Development in Europe

  • Georgia Tech Lorraine - France - Board Member

  • Institut de Micro Electronique et Composants - IMEC - Belgium

  • Manchester Business School - UK

  • Minatec - CEA - France

  • ENSCP - France - Chairman of the Board

• Teaching & Professorship at the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Faculté des Sciences

  • "Industrial Innovation in Chemistry" - Brussels, Belgium

• Advisor to Investors

  • Jon Lillian&Co - M&A Services - Paris France / N.Y. USA

  • Nano Dimension - Zurich, Switzerland / Palo Alto, CA, USA

  • Capricorn Venture Partners - Capricorn Sustainable Chemistry Fund - Leuven, Belgium

  • Conduit Ventures Limited - London, UK

  • Floww - London, UK

• Board position

  • Mc Phy Energy - Grenoble, France - Chairman of the Board

  • Hevatech - Malataverne, France - Board Member

  • Enobraq - Toulouse, France - Chairman of the Board

• Member of the Belgian Royal Academy

  • Classe "Technology and Society"

• Ex-Chairman of the CPS (Comité de Politique Scientifique)

  • Brussels Region

• Foundations

  • Altran Foundation for innovation - Paris, France - Board Member

• Invited Speaker

  • Eurocase annual conference - Brussels, Belgium - 2022

  • Ewora Annual Conference - Brussels, Belgium- 2017

  • Seminaires Ilya Prigogyne - Brussels, Belgium - octobre 2017

  • GRF - Global Relations Forum- Istanbul, Turky - 2017

  • 17th International Conference on Industrial Technology Innovation-Taipei, Taiwan - 2016

Access to Networks

An extended network of industrial specialists in a wide range of fields can be mobilised for any specific projects :

• Business Model Creation,

• Manufacturing Safety,

• Customer Innovation

• Renewable Energy Production and Storage

• Supply Chain - Europe & India

• Venture Capital Funds

• Industrial R&D

• Corporate Venturing