B-PHOT embraces collaborations with companies: SMEs, large established companies, as well as new start-ups. Our well-established value chain from design to prototyping, testing and demonstration, and our pilot line infrastructure for freeform optics ensure methodological product innovation for companies and partners with a direct link to manufacturing.
Companies that are keen on innovating their products with photonics can rely on our expertise and support and can get access to our innovation facilities via Flemish Government supported projects, such as Flanders Make Innovation Boosting, via EU-funded innovation support such as PhotonHub Europe and ACTPHAST, or via one-on-one bilateral projects.
As such we stimulate knowledge transfer and collaboration between our photonics experts and industry partners in market segments and application areas such as Biomedical, Industry 4.0, Agrifood, Information and Communication , Mobility, Sustainability, and Smart Cities.