On Thursday 11 June, the first ever Eindhoven Engine webinar was held. This webinar was the first in a series called Impactful Innovations. The goal of the webinar series is to not only share challenges, innovations and impacts across Eindhoven Engine projects but to also actively work towards cross-project group interactions to unlock our collective intelligence.

The webinar, hosted by Joris Dufils, was kicked off by Jesper Pilmeyer, PhD in the NEUROTREND (Neurological MRI-based biomarkers for treatment navigation in depression) project, followed by a presentation by Gregor van Baars, project leader of the ASML project ‘Next-gen piezo-electric wafer stage’. Big thanks to both of you! During the webinar, we experienced a lot of interesting interactions. We’re looking forward to the next one on 9 July.

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke

In April and May 2020, ILI organized in collaboration with NSVV, OVLNL and Eindhoven Engine, three small-scale virtual (online) co-creation workshops on intelligent lighting. Elke den Ouden and Philip Ross set-up and facilitated these workshops.

The workshops were primarily intended for professionals from industry and government and their purpose was to initiate the co-creation of (parts of) solutions for innovation challenges in the context of light & lighting. The first workshop focused on smart lighting solutions and applications for Outdoor,
the second on Indoor and the last one on Agro & Food.

For ILI, these workshops provided an opportunity for new public private partnerships for R&D and (technological) innovation, and attracted (new) partners for collaboration in the context of its research and education activities with student teams in Innovation Space and events like GLOW.

The workshops have proven to be inspiring and successful. New links between companies, governments and ILI have been established. In the coming weeks
we will follow up on possible collaborations.

More information about the TU/e Intelligence Ligthting Institute

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke

An interview with Katja Pahnke, managing director Eindhoven Engine and TU/e High Tech Systems Center. Read more… (Dutch)

Source: Mechatronica & Machinebouw

Eindhoven Engine secured over twenty new notifications for project proposals for its third open call yesterday, more than twice as many as expected. It seems this partnership between TU/e, Fontys, TNO and the industry hasn’t been affected by the crisis yet.

TU/e professor Maarten Steinbuch, who serves as the institute’s scientific standard bearer, is also thinking about setting up an operational platform for a potentially new knowledge workers program. Read more…

Source: TU/e Cursor
Photo: Bart van Overbeeke

We hope you and your family are all well in these times.

Due to the corona pandemic we are following the government and RIVM guidelines and, like many organizations, working from home as much as possible. We are in frequent contact with our core team and work continues in a mainly remote/ virtual way. That requires flexibility and adaptiveness from our people, but we are confident that we’ll be able to stay in contact in the best way possible. Read more…

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With great enthusiasm and ambition, the Supervisory Board of Eindhoven Engine B.V. began its duties on 1 December last year. We are convinced that the set-up and working methods of Eindhoven Engine are fully in line with the Brainport region’s strategic objectives: playing a prominent, leading role at the cutting edge of high-quality, innovative and sustainable technology while also searching for solutions to societal issues that the modern world craves.

Platform

With Eindhoven Engine, we are creating a dynamic platform that evokes Natlab – the cradle of so many great successes within the Brainport region – while simultaneously being tailored to the knowledge and involvement of the right partners from the worlds of education, science and business. These partners are working in harmony to be able to deal with multidisciplinary issues and to sustainably strengthen our economy in the process.

The Brainport region is in a unique position to manage complex, idiosyncratic products and processes through the collaboration of many stakeholders and project partners. Thanks to strong players in the field of science and education, deep-rooted knowledge in institutions and companies, and our understanding of open innovation and international focus – as well as the tremendous support from the facilitating public authorities – we can ensure that the chain of innovation and the market introduction and implementation of new products run smoothly and at the right pace.

Multidisciplinary

The complementary development of innovation is the future! Eindhoven Engine offers a wonderful model of harmony from fundamental to applied knowledge, driven by both supply and demand. Within this model, all disciplines and knowledge sectors work together on the desired products of the future. Nor are there any borders between the worlds of high-tech, energy, agricultural development, life sciences, data, artificial intelligence and design, for example, nor between the worlds of alpha, beta and gamma.

Through open innovation and strong chain partners, we can also quickly scale up and roll out, thus creating great and faster opportunities for success with fewer risks!

OpenCall

As the Supervisory Board, we are looking forward to the great projects that will be realized in the coming years via the OpenCalls, and we will monitor the strategic progress together with board of directors.

We wish the directors, Maarten Steinbuch and Katja Pahnke, every success in this wonderful, challenging task and, of course, we wish the same for project applicants and all others involved.

Let’s turn Eindhoven Engine into Natlab 2.0 and accomplish valuable projects together!

On behalf of the Supervisory Board,
Jan Mengelers
Guustaaf Savenije
Arnaud de Jong
Staf Depla

Bert Pauli
Chair

Collaboration ensures faster economic recovery after coronacrisis.

Dat de coronacrisis tot een recessie leidt, staat vast. Dat levert niet alleen economische schade op. Er dreigt ook veel kennis en innovatief vermogen verloren te gaan. Zeker in een hightech gebied als de Brainportregio. Dat wil accelerator Eindhoven Engine met haar samenwerkingsverbanden en consortia tussen kennisinstellingen en bedrijven voorkomen. Dat moet tevens bijdragen tot een sneller aantrekken van de economie na de crisis. Read more…

Source: Innovation Origins
(article: in Dutch)

The Eindhoven Engine team hopes that you all had a good start to this year and wishes you an energetic and exponentially innovative 2020.
In this edition of Eindhoven Engine News we look back at 2019 and also look forward: OpenCall 2020. Read more…

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