Leading Lights
Brainport Eindhoven Region, TeNew SiliconValley? I
n the Netherlands there is a high tech re- gion that is among the world’s best: Brainport Eindhoven Region, home to global leaders like Philips, ASML, NXP,
FEI Company, TomTom, DAF Trucks and VDL Bus & Coach. Recently Brainport Eindhoven Region was one of the seven cities and regions designated as ‘the best new cities for business innovation’ by the American magazine Fortune. The magazine even suggests that these regions could be the new Silicon Valley.
The reasons it mentions are the fact that it won the title of ‘Smartest region in the world’ last year, and the presence of High Tech Campus Eindhoven. In 2011 Brainport Eindhoven Re- gion was selected the world’s most intelligent community from some 400 regions worldwide by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) in New York. This award was given because of the very special cooperation between industry, gov- ernment and research, and the high level of (open) innovation that is a feature of the region. Past winners of the Intelligent Community of the Year are Suwon South Korea (2010), Stock- holm Sweden (2009), Seoul South Korea (2008), Waterloo Ontario (2007), Taipei Taiwan (2006), Mitaka Japan (2005) and Glasgow Scotland (2004).
Open innovation
Brainport Eindhoven Region distinguishes itself with its unique open innovation system that re- sults from collaboration, exchange of knowl- edge and close proximity. Partners share and multiply knowledge in an open environment, prior to marketing their own product. Coopera- tion is in the DNA of Brainport. Four in every ten innovative companies work with other companies or institutions and a quarter with international part- ners. Focal sectors of the Brainport region are High Tech Systems & Materials, Food, Automo- tive, Lifetec & Health and and Design.
Campuses A good example of open innovation environ- ment are the campuses in Brainport Eindhoven Region. In the High Tech Campus Eindhoven for example startups can locate their operations here in dedicated business and technology ac- celerator buildings where they can make use of all the existing technical research facilities with- out having to invest in these facilities themselves.
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AutomotiveCampusNL in Helmond provides a home for companies, education institutes as well as public and private research centres, laborato- ries and test facilities in the field of automotive technology and smart mobility. Technology can help to both increase and better use the road ca- pacity and enhance safety. Cooperative mobility is the key to the future. In order to make traffic more fluent and safer, research and development will be focused on connected car, traffic manage- ment and vehicle dynamics control.
Economic growth
Partly due to this unique culture of open inno- vation, Brainport Eindhoven Region appears to be thriving in spite of the current economic cri- sis. Figures published recently showed that the region’s economy grew by a healthy 3.2 percent, significantly higher than the Dutch average of 1.2 percent over the past year. The economic growth led to the creation of many new jobs in the key in- dustry sectors of the region. For example: High Tech Systems and Materials saw a total of 3,600 new jobs created; an increase of 10 percent. Brain- port Eindhoven Region, the R&D hotspot of the Netherlands, also performed well on the technol- ogy front recording the highest number of regis- tered patents of any region in Europe. Cooperation is the power of the Brainport re- gion. Not only in open innovation, but also in the chain. A good example of this cooperation is Brainport Industries, where the tier-one, tier-two and tier-three suppliers in the open high-tech supply chain joined forces. You can read more about Brainport Industries in the following article.
For more information visit :
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