NOVU is the Dutch organization of inventors, product developers and researchers and based in Utrecht in the centre of the Netherlands. The organization looks after the interests of its members in the widest possible sense. Members include company employees as well as individual inventors whose main activity is inventing. At the moment there are over 1.000 members!

One of the objectives of NOVU is networking among the individual members. Combining know-how makes it a lot easier to speed up the development of an invention or innovation. Nowadays, time is a critical factor for success when following up on a bright idea. The way to the market can be a long one. Besides networking, NOVU promotes four main activities important to its individual members:

• Patent search (in cooperation with NLoctrooicentrum)
• Market research (in cooperation with NOVU Academy)
• Technical research including prototyping (see also www.protospace.nl)
• Preparing a Business Plan (in cooperation with NOVU Academy)

• Information: info@novu.nl (the NOVU office is speaking English, French and German)