“The proliferation of the Internet of Everything has created a need for solutions that integrate hardware and software,” said Luc Van den hove, pictured, imec’s president and CEO. WSuch innovative products that optimally serve tomorrow’s digital economy can only be developed through intense interaction between both worlds. Research centres such as imec, with its widely acclaimed hardware expertise, and iMinds, an expert in software and ICT applications, are uniquely positioned to bring these concepts to life.”
iMinds will be integrated as a business unit within imec, resulting in a research centre that will bring together more than 2500 imec researchers with around 1000 researchers from iMinds.
The additions of iMinds’ open innovation research model ICON – in which academic researchers and industry partners jointly develop solutions for specific market needs – the iStart entrepreneurship programme and Living Labs are seen to strengthen imec’s R&D abilities.
