Iddo Bante (29-3-1960) is business director at the CTIT (Centre for Telematics and Information Technology) of the University of Twente in the Netherlands. CTIT is one of the largest academic IT research institutes in Europe with over 475 researchers. Integration of IT research and its application in specific domains is a clear focus of the CTIT. Healthcare, safety, mobility, logistics and energy are the main application domains. In this capacity, Iddo oversees CTIT’s extensive international network of research institutes, universities, healthcare providers, governmental organizations, financial institutes and industrial partners. As member of the Innovation Lab Twente, Iddo is heavily involved in the creation of high-tech spin-off companies via the CTIT Smart Systems Business Accelerator and the Business Incubator TOP.
Iddo serves on the board of Technology Circle Twente, a network of 180 high-tech, small-medium sized enterprises. Members of this high-tech palette of Twente are involved in (product-) development work and often bridge the gap between university and industry. Member firms cover an enormous range of technologies and a string of breakthrough products has been realized. Iddo is also Board Member of the European Foundation for Controlled Drug Delivery, board member of the foundation Twente Broadband, member of the Twente Taskforce Health & Technology, and member of several steering committees of research and/or implementation projects.
Prior to this position, Iddo was business director of the Institute for Biomedical Technology of the University of Twente. During this period, he coordinated several large European research networks with participants from universities, industry and healthcare organizations, such as ARNESCO (10 participants in 7 EU states), NEUROS (10 participants in 8 EU states) and neuralPRO (11 participants in 7 European countries). He also served as coordinator at the Centre for Homecare and Rehabilitation and Innovative Entrepreneurship and was a member of the Management Team at the Centre for Rehabilitation Technology.
Iddo has an industrial background and worked with the Dutch multinational firm DSM as leader of the agro-biotechnology research group from 1987 to 1990. In 1990, Iddo moved to the business development department of DSM Special Products business unit, with the pharmaceutical sector as his main application domain. Apart from above mentioned main jobs, Iddo was co-founder of two SME’s.
Iddo has a master’s degree in Molecular Genetics with a minor in bioprocess technology and biochemistry from the Free University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). His research work resulted in a patent application by the Unilever Research Laboratory.
