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Visit to Brainport Eindhoven and Dutch Design Week
The visit on 25th October included major manufacturers and research institutions in the Eindhoven brainport region, such as chip-making equipment manufacturer ASML, Semiconductor producer NXP, the High Tech Campus, the Solliance R&D initiative and the Holst Centre among others.
The Dutch Design Week and the annual Design Academy Eindhoven graduation exhibition at the Design Academy was also on the program.
The visit took place on invitation by Mr JA Jorritsma, Mayor of Eindhoven, Mr J Mikkers, Mayor of Veldhoven and executives of Brainport Eindhoven, as well as the Dutch Foreign Ministry.
Brainport Eindhoven region
Brainport, with Eindhoven at its centre, is a leading technology region in Europe. High-tech and design are combined with high-end manufacturing industry and entrepreneurship. Cooperation and sharing knowledge are part of our DNA and provide the basis for the characteristic open innovation culture which makes Brainport so unique. By quickly anticipating world-wide changes and continuously forming new connections we create new opportunities for everyone. This attracts talent and companies from all over the world. In a unique business climate we work together in finding solutions for societal challenges with regards to health, mobility, energy, food and safety. Brainport is the high-tech growth accelerator of the Dutch economy.
ASML
ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment. Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry. ASML’s guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment. We are a multinational company with over 70 locations in 16 countries, headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. We employ close to 15,000 people on payroll and flexible contracts (expressed in full time equivalents). ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML. More information about ASML, our products and technology, and career opportunities is available on: www.ASML.com
Dutch Design Week
In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2500 designers to more than 275,000 visitors from home and abroad. In more than eighty locations across the city, DDW organises and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities.
High Tech Campus
High Tech Campus Eindhoven is the smartest km² in The Netherlands with more than 125 companies, startups and institutes. Some 10,000 researchers, developers and entrepreneurs are working on developing future technologies and products that will affect the lives of billions of people. The ecosystem of open collaboration helps Campus based companies to accelerate innovation, by offering easy access to high tech facilities and international networks.
Campus companies (a.o. Philips, NXP, IBM, Intel) strategically decide what knowledge, skills and R&D facilities they share in order to achieve faster, better and more customer-oriented innovation in the application fields Health, Energy and Smart Environments. Located at the heart of Brainport, Campus companies are responsible for nearly 40% of all Dutch patent applications.