OnePlanet Research Center

What OnePlanet Research Center does

OnePlanet Research Center is a private, for-profit multidisciplinary research entity founded in 2019 and headquartered in Wageningen, Netherlands, structured as a collaboration with Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The organization operates with a team of 11-50 employees and is co-located with WUR, leveraging the university's research infrastructure and talent base across what the name suggests are agritech, food, health, and/or environmental domains — though no specific product, service, or vertical focus is extractable from the available data. A named Business Development Manager (Joar Nilssen, Head of Department) indicates at least an early commercial or partner-relations orientation beyond pure academic output. The source material is materially incomplete: the organization's website returned only a loading/verification page, and no products, pricing, customers, revenue, funding rounds, ownership structure, or technology stack were disclosed. Accordingly, business model, revenue mechanics, customer segments, and core technology cannot be characterized beyond the WUR-affiliation anchor and the implied applied-research operating posture.

Name

OnePlanet Research Center

Website

https://oneplanetresearch.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

OnePlanet Research Center is a Wageningen-based, WUR-affiliated multidisciplinary research organization founded in 2019, employing 11-50 staff, focused on applied research with an early commercial orientation via a dedicated business development function.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Applied Research and Development Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Technology Transfer & Innovation-Driven Research Universities (High Commercialization) (EDAHABAH)

Keywords

• Applied research services
• Multidisciplinary research
• University research collaboration
• Innovation partnerships
• Technology development

Headquarters

HQ city

Wageningen

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

OnePlanet Research Center is a multidisciplinary collaboration agreement with Wageningen University & Research (WUR) that conducts applied research and innovation activities. Established in 2019 as a for-profit, privately held entity, it operates with 11-50 employees from Wageningen, the Netherlands, partnering with industry and academic stakeholders on joint multidisciplinary research programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multidisciplinary Applied Research Collaboration Joint multidisciplinary research programs delivered in collaboration with Wageningen University & Research (WUR), aimed at industrial and academic partners seeking applied R&D support. Based on the center's formal collaboration agreement with WUR.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• SINTEF: One of Europe's largest independent research institutes, performing contract R&D for industry and the public sector in areas including health, agrifood, and digitalization. Directly comparable contract-research business model.
• imec: Large Belgian/Dutch nanoelectronics and digital technology research center that combines academic collaboration with industry-sponsored R&D. Directly comparable to OnePlanet's model of partnering with universities to deliver industry-facing applied research.
• TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research): Dutch applied research organization that translates scientific knowledge into industry-relevant innovations across health, agrifood, and digital. Operates the same public-private R&D model in the same Dutch ecosystem as OnePlanet.
• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland: Nordic applied R&D center conducting multidisciplinary contract research for industry and public sector clients. Closely comparable in mission (applied, industry-funded research tied to a national research base) to OnePlanet.
• CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique): Swiss public-private R&D center active in microelectronics, digital health, and sustainability. Closely comparable mission and operating model to OnePlanet — applied multidisciplinary research with industry partners.

Broad incumbents

• Fraunhofer Society: Europe's largest applied research organization, operating institutes that bridge university research and industry contracts. Same underlying contract-research and technology-transfer model as OnePlanet, but at vastly greater scale.
• CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives): Major French public research organization with technology-transfer arms that commercialize research for industry. Similar in being a large multidisciplinary research center with industry-facing commercialization.
• Wageningen University & Research: The Dutch public research university that is OnePlanet's named collaboration partner. Comparable because it is the underlying academic institution whose research pipeline OnePlanet is structured to translate into commercial outcomes.
• Battelle Memorial Institute: Large US nonprofit applied science and technology organization that runs national labs and commercial R&D. Comparable as a large-scale contract-research and technology-transfer organization spanning multiple disciplines.
• SRI International: Independent nonprofit R&D organization that commercializes research through licensing, spin-outs, and industry contracts. Operates a model very similar to OnePlanet's industry-facing applied research.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OnePlanet_RC

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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