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Open Innovation leads to growing number of initiatives at High Tech Campus Eindhoven
Companies and government authorities announce new initiatives to strengthen the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen technology region
January 25, 2005: Eindhoven - One year after the opening-up of the High Tech Campus Eindhoven and the successful Dutch trade mission to Silicon Valley, the number of companies that have established facilities here has increased sharply. During the symposium 'Moving Forward' on 25 January, companies including IBM, ASML and DSP Valley will be announcing their plans to establish facilities at the HTC. Furthermore, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced that 2.5 million euros will be made available for the development of an 'Accelerator', a centre that will house up-and-coming technological firms at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven.
"After the opening-up of the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, ATOS Origin, FluXXion, Dalsa, the FOM foundation and Cytocentrics were the first organisations to establish facilities in this innovative environment", says Jerome Verhagen, director of the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. "We are proud that one year later, companies such as IBM, ASML, Adamind, Bioneedle, DSP Valley, Montavista, Sun Microsystems, STM, New Venture Partners and FEI Company have already set up here or will be doing so in the coming weeks. This is a mix varying from start-ups to well-known multinationals, from software companies to firms in bio- and micro systems technology, all of whom need a window onto a very broad arsenal of technologies and competencies."
…In addition to national government, regional government is a major partner in the development of 'brainport' Eindhoven. One of the initiatives that the Eindhoven local council has taken with the High Tech Campus Eindhoven is the creation of the foundation Technology Liaison Eindhoven Region. This aim of this foundation is to encourage and support relevant target groups in locating their businesses to the Eindhoven region, and in particular to the Campus. The chairman of this foundation will be Arthur van de Poel, who as a former member of the Philips Board of Management was previously involved in the development of the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. Arthur Van de Poel: "More and more it is being recognised that innovation in high-tech industry requires intensive, cross-border cooperation. And at the same time that this will be most successful if the distances are short, the thresholds are low and the concentration of expertise is high. People sometimes talk in this connection of "technological eco systems". The High Tech Campus Eindhoven can rightly be called the beating heart of the Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen eco system."
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