Brainport

The Brainport Foundation implements the plans formulated in Brainport Navigator 2013. Within the four domains– People, Technology, Business, Basics – projects are developed and implemented in order to achieve the Brainport goal of being a top technology hotspot in Europe. The projects are summarised below:
 
People
Brainport stands for: entrepreneurship, flexible employment market, dynamics and excellence in education, self-awareness.
 
People – Entrepreneurship
Goal: promote entrepreneurial mentality. More new entrepreneurs and more entrepreneurship among company employees. Projects:

• Brabant Entrepreneurial School
• Entrepreneurship Stimulation Programme
• Coaching entrepreneurs and improving access to investors

 
People – Employment market
Goal: improve match of supply and demand, quantitatively and qualitatively. Projects:

• Toptech (knowledge industry) instrumentation
• Promotion of progression/career development
• Deployment of ‘inactive’ people in the employment market

 
People – Education
Goal: a Brainport-fit education system

• Restructuring of vocational education
• International school (campus)

 
People – Brainport pride
Goal: achieve pride and self-awareness among the Brainport population, companies and institutions on the basis of position, importance and potential of Brainport. Projects:

• Impulse programme – Brainport Mentality

 
Technology
Brainport stands for: top technology, excellent knowledge company match (demand articulation and knowledge transfer), creativity in application in an open innovation environment/culture.
 
Technology - Centres of Excellence
Goal: stimulate innovation at the interface of technology areas and application fields. Projects:

• Multidisciplinary in open innovation (innovation centres: public/private).
• Holst Centre
• Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM)
• Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI): through-development/Wageningen/NIMR
• Embedded System Institute (ESI): through-development to leading technology institute
• Innovation Centres Automotive (incl. TNO Automotive), Dutch Manufacturing
• Institute, Design, IT Lifestyle and Well-being (Telematics Institute)

 
Technology – Knowledge transfer
Goal: use knowledge circulation to further innovation among SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprises). Focus on ambition and excellence. Projects:
Generic:

• Cluster United Brains, Lecturships Fontys, TU/e Innovation Lab
• Programme HBO (University of Professional Education) Knowledge Transfer

Specific: Knowledge Networks

• Metal House
• Sports & Technology
• Design Connection
• Newtrition Connection
• Be-linked (ICT)
• Embedded House

Programmes at the interface of technology – social domains:

• Care and Technology
• Mobility and Technology
• Design & Technology
• Technology & Food (Brainport-Greenport-Food Valley)

 
Business
Brainport stands for: start-ups, business development, meeting and cooperating
 
Business - Start-ups
Goal: promoting start-ups (faster, better, more). Projects:
Generic:

• Starter funding

Specific:

• Support programmes for start-ups

 
 
Business – Acquisition
Goal: strengthen the critical mass of economic activity and technology combinations suitable for the Brainport profile. Projects:

• High Tech Campus Eindhoven
• Programme for the acquisition of toptech establishments according to Brainport profile
• Programme for business location in Brainport

 
Business – Information/communication
Goal: boost familiarity and accessibility of (innovation) instrumentation for SMEs

• Mobile Helpdesk for entrepreneurs

 
Business – Business development
Goal: stimulate (open) innovation through forming customised networks. Projects:

• Business & Technology communities

 
Basics
Brainport stands for: attractive location climate, quality of life, international orientation, leading in ICT (infra, services and use). Projects:

• International community
• Accessibility (various projects)
• Quality of urban environment (various projects)
• Company locations
• ICT (infrastructure (broadband), services, use, knowledge clustering)
• Triple Helix national (Brainport Navigator 2013) and international (incl. ELAt, Regions of Knowledge, International Design & Technology Community Chain)