Ivo de Nooijer

Ivo has a biopharmaceutical sciences, Dutch law, and medical history degree. He is completing his PhD thesis, which investigates negotiations in early-stage licensing in the Netherlands’ life sciences and health sector.

Ivo has worked in an international commercial setting, within Unilever, and as a lawyer in private practice in Amsterdam, focused on intellectual property and commercial contracts, both in the context of litigation and transactions.

Ivo has an extensive network in the Netherlands university technology transfer sector. He headed up the Leiden tech transfer office and worked in Utrecht and Rotterdam in a similar role. In addition, he advised companies and charities engaged in early-stage development in the life sciences and health sector.

Ivo was one of the drivers in creating and evolving the Socially Responsible licensing principles from 2019 and the subsequently developed tools and guidelines.

Ivo developed the Biotech Booster on behalf of several companies and the collective universities and academic medical centres, as well as advising the collective universities and academic medical centres on a wide array of university technology transfer-related issues and challenges.