Keeping your distance with the help of light
How can light influence your behavior? This is what the IGNITE student team is conducting research into. The team shares the knowledge it has gained with the lighting industry.
Brainport
Tackling Brainport’s future challenges starts with improving the living environment
"The prerequisite for an inclusive society is that everyone feels at home here. So: care for housing, a well-functioning infrastructure, clean air and a vibrant city"
A high tech band-aid on an open wound
Plasmacure develops a product that treats wounds with cold plasma.
The quality of living and the environment is influencing the success of Brainport Eindhoven in all its aspects
"Brainport as a whole can only function if the connection between city and countryside is right"
The Brainport mindset: bringing a 3D printing product to the market together – even as competitors
3D printing offers opportunities for the healthcare sector. In the Brainport region, companies are working together to bring these applications to the market.
Students are drawn into the ecosystem through real impact and relevant goals – not with Brainport-lingo
"It's about making students feel like being part of that great adventure. We're playing in the Champion's League of high tech"
In the ‘war for talent’, Brainport Eindhoven may look for sheep with three, four and five legs
"The city has the impact of a metropolis but the appearance of a provincial town. That has consequences for attracting talent"
Mission-oriented innovation provides social and economic benefits
"Brainport can still make a huge leap when it comes to selling all those great innovations"
Eindhoven Engine as the example for the innovation of innovation itself
"Anything that can help us innovate our ideas about innovation can help keep Brainport at the top for the next ten years"
A €1 billion local bus line in Brainport Eindhoven as “an economic opportunity for the world”
"We not only improve accessibility to and between economic top locations in the economic engine of the South, but the system also generates money"
Brainport needs to choose between key technologies, to avoid fragmentation
"We are investing extra in the key technologies in which we are or want to become leaders, and which play an important role in realizing social transitions"
Brainport hubs abroad can export and enhance the region’s success
"The name 'Brainport' can create leverage abroad, which is difficult to achieve as a single supplier"
From scale-up to ‘OEM’: the next ASML is a company built upon data
Brainport needs new 'Original Equipment Manufacturers' - companies that, like ASML, set the tone for the rest of the ecosystem.
How surgical robots can shorten waiting lists
A surgeon's eyes have been greatly improved thanks to technology in recent years, for example with the advent of new image processing techniques and digital microscopes. But what about their hands?"
EHVXL garners public support for urban renewal
When a city is growing as fiercely as Eindhoven, you need to organize widespread public support amongst the population. Which is why Eugene Franken set up EHVXL with a group of friends.
Capital needs remain significant in Brainport’s high tech industry, but this is not a problem for everyone
"In general, start-ups and OEMs seem to be able to attract investments more easily, but this is much less the case for scale-ups"
High Tech Manufacturing companies will continue to be the key to Brainport’s success in the years to come
"Much will depend on the relationship between the OEMs and the suppliers that work directly with them."
Brainport Eindhoven prepares to tackle ten big challenges in an effort to remain a top region
Rabobank research 'Brainport at the top' highlights the issues that determine whether the region will still be the 'Smartest in the World' in 10 years' time.
“The Brainport-way of System thinking: a model for uniting high tech and project management around the world”
"We also know that you can only conquer the world of project management step by step"
Initiative to strengthen the “typical” Brainport Systems Engineering expertise for the Netherlands
"If we can make our knowledge more explicit and develop activities such as events and education, then we can accelerate the learning curve around systems engineering"