AZUR

Azur.be is the first Belgian online shop which offers more than 1,2 million different books (Dutch, English, Spanish, ...), DVDs, games and software products. The excellent online shop experience: very competitive prices, user friendly search and safe payment methods. Azur.be guarantees a perfect delivery at home or work.

Bizidee

Bizidee is the competition that offers an excellent chance to turn an innovative business idea into a solid business plan. Our participants appreciate, on top of the valuable prices, our facilitating services and networking environment. The yearly contest started already it's seventh edition.

BOIP

The Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) is the official body for the registration of trademarks and designs. In addition, the BOIP offers the possibility to formally record the existence of ideas, concepts, designs prototypes and the like.

Braindrums

Offer your customers memorable services. Extract the best and brightest ideas from yourself and your staff. Turn ideas into reality beyond expectations. Make yourself the most creative person and your staff the most innovative team in the industry. Perform and execute with confidence. BRAINDRUMS combines creativity and NLP into SERVICE INNOVATION.

Business Angels Network Flanders

Business Angels Network Flanders is an effective market-place where entrepreneurs and private investors meet in order to facilitate the financing of growth-oriented SME’s.

COCD

COCD (centre for the development of creative thinking) stands for over 30 years of experience in applied creativity. Born out of the Antwerp university we have grown into the leading organization on creativity trainings and workshops in Belgium and The Netherlands. Our consultants facilitate brainstorms in Europe and beyond.

CogniStreamer® Innovation Portal

CogniStreamer® Innovation Portal 3.0 is a web-enabled collaborative platform designed for ‘the Fuzzy Frontend’ of innovation. The portal challenges people from inside and outside an organization to create, enrich and assess innovative ideas within strategically selected areas, tapping into their collective intelligence using our innovative ‘Thistle Tube®’ collaborative filtering technology.

CPSB Brussels

CPSB-Brussels is an affiliate organization of the US-based Creative Problem Solving Group. We strongly believe in a deliberate approach to creativity that is based on years of research. Our clients apply a proven skill base for cutting-edge solutions.

Creax

CREAX is a research organisation dedicated to empower the worldwide innovation potential while using the most effective resources. We link worldwide existing fragmented knowledge sources to solve new problems and generate new markets. We team up a group of enthusiastic innovation managers and engineers from the complete circle of knowledge backgrounds. We strive to bring the best process for idea generation, knowledge transfer and innovation scenario planning.

Design Vlaanderen

Design Flanders is the Flemish institution that promotes contemporary design. It promotes designers through exhibitions, the magazine Kwintessens and sparkling events. It subsidises design projects and organises the Henry van de Velde Awards & Labels. Furthermore, Design Flanders assists companies in their search for a designer. By means of workshops and network events, it helps them to incorporate design in their strategy.

Enthoven Associates

Enthoven Associates offers a full range of services to assist in the innovation process, from idea generation over product design to qualitative market research. We are specialised in developing concepts with the right balance between emotional and rational elements. Our design consultancy has served global customers over 30 years.

Fife Council

The region of Fife can be found just north of Edinburgh. Fife is very popular with tourists and visitors come from all over the world to see the world famous attractions. A new ferry service will be operating between Rosyth and Zeebrugge in early 2009 transporting visitors and freight.

Flanders InShape

Flanders InShape is the Flemish Competence Centre for Product development and Industrial Design. It was established in December 2006 and is a cooperation between Industrie Vlaanderen, some service companies, 3 colleges of higher education and specialised knowledge centres. Flanders InShape stimulates and advises companies about product development and industrial design.

Flanders Investment and Trade

Flanders Investment & Trade promotes sustainable international business. Looking for goods, services or technology from Flanders? Planning to invest here? Ambition to go international? Flanders Investment & Trade is your partner. At our booth, we present the best of Flanders’ Technology, in close collaboration with strategic research centers of Flanders: VIB, VITO, Imec, IBBT.

Global Edutainment SmartReading SmartTyping

Global Edutainment creates time. We do this through optimizing reading and typing skills by offering quality trainings for companies, schools and individuals. Our most well-known products are SmartReading – read a book in an hour, and SmartTyping – learn blind typing in 4 hours. Also your brain is welcome.

Hogeschool Westvlaanderen, expertisecel KOMMA

KOMMA is an expertise cell within the Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen and focusses on creativity and innovation. KOMMA covers several research projects and provides its services for educational and industrial purposes. The INNOWIZ tool was ( i weg) developed by KOMMA as an interactive and evolving database of creativity techniques on the web.

IBBT

IBBT is a Flemish research institute aimed at Information and Communication Technology (ICT). IBBT develops highly competent human capital and carries out multidisciplinary research on behalf of the Flemish business community and government. IBBT has started over 81 projects with 170+ organisations, jointly developing innovative applications in domains such as health care, mobility, new media and e-government.

i-City

i-City is a living lab testing IT applications. New products and services are fun, but they have to enhance the life of the enduser. I-City works with real users to test their needs and brings the feedback to the companies. This allows companies to improve their products and services before they go to the market. People who are interested to test new applications or companies who would like to know more about working with a living lab, feel free to visit our website www.i-city.be and contact us.

ICMS Group NV

Our corporate mission is to deliver JERI to the knowledge worker (Just Enough Relevant Information, when & where needed) for higher productivity and improved business results by means of intelligent Information & Knowledge Technology.

IMEC & Addict Creative Lab

IN.TANGIBLE.SCAPE.S : Bringing science and technology to life through art and design.
About a year ago IMEC and Addict Creative Lab started their search for creative ideas and visions on emerging technologies applications in the world of art, design, architecture, fashion and well-being. Discover the result at the in.tangible.scape.s exhibition.

IMEC

IMEC is Europe’s largest independent research center in nano-electronics and nano-technology. Over 1,600 employees coming from all over the world work at IMEC’s campus. IMEC’s research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport.

Innovatiecentrum

Innovatiecentrum stimulates and inspires Flemish SME’s to innovate. We also support SME’s in their innovation process by finding partners, knowledge and funding, and by facilitating creativity sessions. Our Innovation Audit maps the innovation potential of a company, and shows them possible ways to improve their innovation process.

Innotek

Activities:

• Creation of new businesses starting from good ideas/opportunities
• Spin-off creation (industry, research centres, universities)
• Incubation: Technology House in Geel (Belgium), Environmental Incubator in Mol (Belgium)

IWT

IWT wishes to stimulate innovation in Flanders. By providing financial incentives to companies, especially SMEs. By making it possible for companies on the one hand and research institutions, universities and other innovation actors on the other hand to collaborate more and better. And by providing advice to the Flemish Government on the implementation of innovation policy.

Namahn

Namahn is a people-centered design consultancy based in Brussels. We help our clients design digital products in a people-centered way (as opposed to a technology-centered way). Established in 1987 and currently with a staff of 20, we master two disciplines like no other: interaction design and information architecture.

Pantopicon

Pantopicon assists both private and public organizations in assessing and anticipating their long-term futures. Whether you wish to shape your vision, explore possible challenges and scenarios ahead, build future-driven strategies or conceptualize innovative products/services for a successful tomorrow, Pantopicon provides you with the necessary professional expertise.

Stad Genk

The city of Genk has decided to give the mining site of Winterslag a new contemporary function with respect for its past. C-Mine has to become a pool of creativity involving education, knowledge development, creative economy, culture and recreation; a site known for new initiatives with a high experience level.

TTO Flanders

TTO Flanders from the five Flemish Universities, interface between university and industry, supporting collaboration with companies, patenting & licensing and spin-off creation.

Trendwolves

Trendwolves has strong expertise in European youth culture and youth trends, and focuses on target groups between 14 and 18 and between 19 and 25 years old. The consultancy offers youth research, intelligence and business development, youth and job marketing, concept development, strategy support and advice in co-operation with young people. The data are used in trend reports, in-company youth trend briefings and presentations.

Triple Helix

Triple Helix offers modular products and services for state-of-the-art information and knowledge management in the form of fully integrated content platforms, multimedia learning systems and highly intuitive content navigation solutions in 2D and 3D. We supply the information that professionals need to know or learn about.

VIB

VIB is a non-profit research institute in life sciences. About 1100 scientists and technicians conduct strategic basic research on the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the functioning of the human body, plants, micro-organisms. VIB has a partnership with 4 universities: Ghent/Leuven/Antwerp/Brussels. VIB unites the forces of 65 research groups.

VITO

VITO is a leading independent European research and consulting centre developing sustainable technologies in the area of energy, environment, materials, remote sensing. It provides intelligent/quantitative solutions that increase the competitive advantage of large/small companies.
Application domains: new/efficient/cheaper production technologies, reduced energy consumption, biomaterials, healthcare, monitoring effects of climate change, ...

Vlerick

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School is the autonomous management school of Ghent University and K.U.Leuven. The School is a top ranked European business school and holds the three main international accreditations. The School has three campuses: Gent, Leuven and St. Petersburg (Russia). Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School has unique expertise in two research fields: ‘innovation and entrepreneurship’ and ‘doing business in Europe’. Moreover, the School offers MBA and Masters courses, as well as general and specialized courses for managers and custom-designed training for individual companies. It has over 13,500 active alumni in more than 100 different countries.

Voka - Flanders’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Our mission: As the closest, most influential and most professional network of entrepreneurs and the representative organisation for companies in Flanders, Voka wishes to create an optimal framework for successful enterprise, and thus seeks to make a fundamental contribution to its region’s welfare and well-being.

VRT

Eén ('One') is the first channel of public broadcaster VRT and Flanders' most watched TV channel. It brings a wide variety of news, sports, cultural programming, fiction series, human interest and entertainment shows on a daily basis. "De bedenkers" was a popular TV show that discovered and developed new creative and innovative ideas and products for daily life. Several products can nowadays be found in Flanders' shops. A second season starts later this autumn.

Eyetronics

Eyetronics is expert in 3D scanning and modelling and is mainly active in the entertainment industry: visual effects for motion pictures, computer games, commercials, music videos, etc. In Nov 2001, the company started a wholly owned subsidiary close to Hollywood in California and end 2007 it opened a subsidiary in Montreal, Canada.

Solar Team

The Umicore Solar Team consists of 14 students from the GROUP T university college Leuven. They dedicate two years to build a solar powered vehicle. In October 2007 the team participated in the World Solar Challenge, a 3000 km race from north to south Australia, and finished second. In july 2008 a new team was put together to build the next Umicar and win the WSC to become the world champion in solarcar racing