Innotek is a technology centre located in
Geel
Geel () is a city located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which acquired city status in the 1980s. It comprises Central-Geel which is constituted of 4 old parishes a/o towns: Sint-Amand, Sint-Dimpna, Holven and Elsum. Further on around the ce ...
, in the
Campine region of
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. It is a public private partnership between the
Antwerp province
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and several organisations located in the Campine region of the province.
History
The centre was founded in 1987 as a joint initiative of the ''Regional Development Authority for the Kempen region'' (IOK) and the local ''Chambre of Commerce''. In 1988, Innotek became a European Business and Innovation Centres (BIC) and is now part of the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN). In 1996 the ''Technologyhouse of the Kempen'', a
business incubator
Business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services starting with management training and office space and ending with venture c ...
building was opened in Geel. Since 2009, Innotek also manages the ''Milieutechnologiehuis'' (E: ''Environmental Technology House'') in
Mol. Outside the incubator, several companies are located on the Innotek area, such as
Genzyme
Genzyme was an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since its acquisition in 2011, Genzyme (also known as Genzyme Transgenics Corp or GTC Biotherapeutics) has been a fully owned subsidiary of Sanofi. In 2010, Genzyme ...
Flanders,
CIPAL CIPAL is an inter-municipal ICT service with headoffices in Geel. Its name refers to the province of Antwerp and Limburg. The organisation is a governmental ICT-agency and inter-municipal association of municipalities, cities, towns, Social Welfar ...
(inter-municipal ICT service centre for the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and
Limburg
Limburg or Limbourg may refer to:
Regions
* Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium
* Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands
* Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...
) and ''Fibre Optic Sensing & Sensing Systems'', a research centre.
Activities
* Development of new business
* The creation of
spin-offs
Spin-off may refer to:
*Spin-off (media), a media work derived from an existing work
*Corporate spin-off, a type of corporate action that forms a new company or entity
* Government spin-off, civilian goods which are the result of military or gov ...
* Virtual and physical incubation
* Projects on regional economical development
See also
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Regional policy of the European Union
The regional policy of the European Union (EU), also referred as Cohesion Policy, is a policy with the stated aim of improving the economic well-being of regions in the European Union and also to avoid regional disparities. More than one third ...
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Science and technology in Flanders
Science and technology in Flanders, being the Flemish Community and more specifically the northern region of Belgium (Europe), is well developed with the presence of several universities and research institutes. These are strongly spread over all ...
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Strategic Plan Campine
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Campus Blairon
Sources
Innotek(EBN)
Innotek(Antwerp province, Dutch)
External links
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Innotek 10 years(Dutch)
Flanders
Science and technology in Belgium
Business incubators of Belgium
Organisations based in Antwerp Province
Geel
1987 establishments in Belgium
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