Maarten Herpen, Van Email & Phone Number

Eindhoven, Nb, Nl

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Coaching startups and contributing to technology scouting.

The Netherlands

At Acacia Impact Innovation, we help social impact innovators and funders be more successful, and we develop social innovations ourselves in collaboration with others. We do this through advisory/consultancy as well as hands-on services, such as ideation, business strategy, public-private partnerships, fundraising and business planning. Our main focus is on inclusive and humanitarian innovation, especially Africa, and our focus is on the ‘exploration’ and ‘transition-to-scale’ phases of the innovation process.Our customers are:• Social innovation practitioners (e.g. corporations, social enterprises, NGOs, universities, and governments)• Social innovation investors (e.g. government development agencies, private foundations, individuals)

Launching a solar-heated washing machine in Uganda - see www.solasoka.com

The Global Young Academy aims to become the voice of young scientists around the world. To realize our vision, we develop, connect, and mobilize new talent from six continents. Members are selected for their scientific excellence and their commitment to service, and serve five-year terms. As of 2017, the GYA counts 134 alumni in addition to its 200 members (leading young scientists); together representing 70 countries.

United States

Methane Action is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance global implementation of solutions that will rapidly reduce atmospheric methane concentrations, for the benefit of present and future generations.

Africa / Netherlands

In this role I am in charge of innovation for Philips across Africa, with the aim to adapt the Philips product portfolio to the specific needs of the local market in Africa, by scouting for new innovations and by developing these innovations into businesses.I am leading the Philips Africa Innovation Hub, which is the center for Philips to develop locally relevant innovation in-Africa, for-Africa, with local African talent. I am leading a team of scientists and (social) entrepreneurs with the mission to improve the lives of people in Africa through meaningful innovation.We are focusing on equitable innovations in support of SDG-3; Health (specifically access to healthcare and healthy living). As an example of ‘healthy living’, we are working on breastfeeding solutions that empower women in Africa to keep on breastfeeding when they go back to work. In the area of healthcare, we are creating medical devices for low resource settings. Examples are the children’s automated respiratory rate monitor for use in pneumonia diagnosis (a top killer for children in Africa) and our wind-up fetal Doppler device to detect complications during delivery. Both devices are now commercially available.Our biggest project, the Community Life Centers, is a community driven and integrated approach to strenghtening primary healthcare, which bundles technology (solar, healthcare, lighting, IT) with services.

Nairobi

Asignment to work on an R&D strategy for Philips in East Africa. This resulted into the creation of the Philips Africa Innovation Hub. My big insight in Kenya came when I recognized that to tackle some of Africa’s biggest societal issues, such as poverty and high maternal and child mortality, innovations are needed for a large underserved group of people that are currently excluded from innovations.In order for the SDGs to make a meaningful impact, nobody should be left behind. This is why we need established companies like Philips to create equitable innovations that advance the SDGs. If they do this, companies can integrate support of the SDGs into their core business strategies.The insight was that established companies need to specifically structure themselves to make this possible. This is the big idea behind the Philips Africa Innovation Hub, which is using a corporate venturing approach.

As venture manager I worked as a corporate enterpreneur within the Philips organization. I founded and managed 3 new corporate ventures through the first stages of development within Philips' corporate entrepreneurship programs, including 'Luminous Carpets' and 'LightVibes'.

Netherlands

Master, Master Of Business Innovation (Mba)

Dr, Physics

Education record