Your Technology Transfer Center

They trust the University Colleges of the Brussels-Capital Region in the validation framework, implementation, consulting and technological research or to help them create their company ...

« Belixir® » est une jeune start-up bruxelloise qui a élaboré une gamme de boissons saines, véritable alternative aux sodas trop sucrés, et qui ont l’avantage de pouvoir se boire chaudes ou froides. Elle propose des boissons naturelles à base de gingembre, miel et citron. Actuellement la gamme de breuvages est déclinée en deux arômes : Lavande et Eucalyptus. Ce projet est porté a terminé 2e du concours beforbusiness® 2015. La start-up a été créée dans la foulée du concours. Ces produits ont été développés en collaboration avec le laboratoire d’analyse sensorielle (Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckère – Institut Meurice – LSTA).

La société 3B structure est née à la suite d’un travail de fin d’études issu de la Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci – ECAM et du programme Spin-Off in Brussels (actuellement programme Launch). Cette société est spécialisée dans le développement de poutres en bambou.

Didden fait confiance depuis plusieurs années au laboratoire d’analyse sensorielle (Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckère – Institut Meurice - LSTA) pour la conception et l’analyse de certains de ses produits.

The Agoria ICT group has launched an education project in order to provide short, just-in-time education modules to highly educated employees (adult learning) through the comprehensive e-learning platform iDoceo. ISIB (Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak) successfully delivered 2 courses (XML and XSLT). This project is a perfect example of transfer of advanced competencies from a research center to business world. 

Since 2006, the training center of Laborelec has included videomodels in the training “Electrical Metrology, Electrical Power and Energy” (Resp. Alain Deffrennes). The videomodel tool was developed by Prof. Fr. Gueuning (Haute Ecole Leonard de Vinci – ECAM) in order to provide 3D visualisations of electrical and electronical circuits by means of simple physical components. The circuits are naturally represented in 2D, the third dimension representing the electrical voltage. For example, the electrical current is symbolized by a cone, the size of the cone closely changes with the current intensity. The uniqueness of the tool lies in the usage of geometrical components to represent physical size. The tool allows the simultaneous visualisation of multiple voltages and currents inside the circuits. Since the brain can very quickly analyse 3D visuals, the students' learning curve is reduced and the videomodels offer a clear pedagogical advantage. More onSince 2006, the training center of Laborelec has included videomodels in the training “Electrical Metrology, Electrical Power and Energy” (Resp. Alain Deffrennes). The videomodel tool was developed by Prof. Fr. Gueuning (Haute Ecole Leonard de Vinci – ECAM) in order to provide 3D visualisations of electrical and electronical circuits by means of simple physical components. The circuits are naturally represented in 2D, the third dimension representing the electrical voltage. For example, the electrical current is symbolized by a cone, the size of the cone closely changes with the current intensity. The uniqueness of the tool lies in the usage of geometrical components to represent physical size. The tool allows the simultaneous visualisation of multiple voltages and currents inside the circuits. Since the brain can very quickly analyse 3D visuals, the students' learning curve is reduced and the videomodels offer a clear pedagogical advantage. More on videomodels >>

La société Shell Gaz a confié aux experts de l’ISIB (Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak) et de l’ECAM (Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci) une étude comparative énergétique.

La société Isomatex a fait appel à l’expertise du Dr L. Hocks (Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak - ISIB) pour la validation technologique d’un procédé innovant de fabrication de filaments de roches volcaniques. Actuellement le Dr E. Gicquel (Haute Ecole Lucia de Brouckère – Institut Meurice) coordonne une recherche concernant le développement de nouveaux matériaux.

Un outil de télégestion a été implanté dans le Centre de Référence IRISTECH+ de la Région Bruxelles-Capitale. Cette nouvelle technologie permet de gérer à distance les paramètres d’installations techniques adaptées pour la formation professionnelle de techniciens dans les domaines du conditionnement d’air (HVAC) et de l’hydraulique. Un exemple de transfert de technologie de l’ISIB (Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak) vers le monde économique bruxellois.

Depuis plusieurs années, Ghislaine Dufourny et Caroline Etienne du Centre d’Information et de Recherche sur les Intolérances et l’Hygiène Alimentaires (CIRIHA) calculent pour EXKi les apports nutritionnels de chaque plat et formulent leurs recommandations.

 

As a non-profit-making organization subsidized by the Brussels-Capital Region, InduTec is aware of the strategic link it represents for the development of the Region. In order to support the Brussels' innovation plan InduTec optimizes its collaboration approaches with the other authorities of the Region.

Be Angels

Be Angels brings together entrepreneurs seeking funding and private investors willing to invest in promising companies. The network has over 120 members who can support companies at different stages of their development: start, growth or transfer of their activities.

Brufotec

L'asbl Brufotec a pour mission d'aider les petites et moyennes entreprises bruxelloises du secteur agroalimentaire à se mettre en règle avec la législation en vigueur, notamment en matière de sécurité et d'hygiène alimentaire et d'environnement.

Brussels Export

Brussels Export is a partnership consisting of three organizations : the Foreign Trade Department of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Brussels Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Brussels Business Federation. Their aim is to promote foreign trade, ensure the economic and commercial visibility of the Region and offer Brussels-based export businesses a comprehensive range of services like economic and commercial missions, contact days, participation to international trade fairs and exhibitions.

Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (BRIC)

As regards the services provided, priority is given to the hosting and maintenance of applications and multi-client, cross-disciplinary tools developed and/or gauged by the BRIC using generic solutions wherever possible in an Application Service Provider (ASP) environment using Internet functionalities.

CityDev (formely BRDA)

The agency is a para-regional public institution which was established in 1974. The mission of the agency is to support economic development and employment in the Brussels-Capital Region. Its activities are concentrated primarily on infrastructure for accommodating companies, especially scientific and industrial parks and buildings for companies.

Cluster Ecobuild

One of ecobuild.brussels’ objective is to foster collaborations and synergies between enterprises, support organisations and research centres, as well as between the different sustainable building professions. Through listening to the professionals’ needs, the organisation and facilitation of roundtables and workshops, the cluster encourages the implementation of great common projects.

Cluster Brussels Lifetech

The Brussels LifeTech Cluster groups together businesses active in the biotechnology, pharma and medical sectors, as well as a complete ecosystem composed of universities, colleges, research centres, incubators and support organisms.

Cluster Software in Brussels

This cluster brings together around a hundred software companies with high growth potential, research institutes, incubators, service companies, experts and support organizations dedicated to the Brussels software industry.
Its mission is to position Brussels as a centre of excellence for software products and innovative technologies.

Cluster Screen.brussels

The Screen.Brussels cluster includes audiovisual production, post-production and distribution companies, research centers, experts, …

Enterprise Europe Brussels (EEB)

Enterprise Europe Brussels is an organisation created by the Brussels Enterprise Agency and the Brussels Enterprise Commerce and Industry. EEB is part of Enterprise Europe Network - a consortium of 500 organisations across 40 European countries – aiming to help companies and institutions in Brussels Capital Region find technology and commercial partners on the Continent or market their innovation to Europe.

finance.brussels (formely SRIB)

finance.brussels a pour mission de mettre des capitaux à risque à la disposition des entreprises bruxelloises, d'offrir une assistance technique et des conseils d'ingénierie financière aux entreprises. La sociéte accorde une priorité aux entreprises qui génèrent une valeur ajoutée importante, innovent, ou exportent, quel que soit leur secteur d'activité ou leur profil. La SRIB est également active à travers ses filiales Brustart, Bruficom et Brusoc.

Impulse (formely BEA)

The Impulse's mission is to be the "leading public contact entity" for business people (entrepreneurs, company founders, firms, SMEs, the self-employed, and foreign investors) in the Brussels Capital Region. The agency takes care of Agro-food, ICT (itSCAN), Urban Industries, Environment (Brussels GreenTech), Health and Biotechnology (biotech in Brussels) segments.

Innoviris (formely IRSIB)

Innoviris, which was instituted by the Brussels decree of 26 June 2003, began its activites on 1st July 2004. The mission of the Institute is to promote, support and valorize scientific research and technological innovation in the Brussels-Capital Region. This task consists principally in funding research projects undertaken within the companies, the universities and the higher education institutes located in the Region.

 

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Take it ISI

The Take it ISI InduTec program is exclusively for members (researchers, teachers, students) of the 3 Industrial Brussels University Colleges (ECAM, ISIB, Institut Meurice), wishing to undertake a research project (feasibility, scientific and industrial research , prototyping, validation or expertise, spin-off).

After an objective analysis of the constraints related to your project, InduTec selects the best financing options and assist you for free for the drafting and monitoring of subsidy applications to the Brussels Region.

At the "subsidies" part of the InduTec website, or on the pdf attached, we summarize all aid to R & D, available in the Brussels Region. Besides the most common scenarios, this catalog provides funding in sometimes unexpected contexts. We present you below some of them:

  • As a student-engineer you have already accumulated some skills that you want the service of a Brussels company, with the support of your institute (access to labs, tips from your professors), and possibly paid. Depending on the context, Take it ISI can help you boost the conditions of realization of your proposal as part of one of your courses (study office management courses ...), or as part of your internship or work graduation bringing your industrial developer additional funding.
  • As a researcher conducting some of your research within a Brussels company can help you achieve a doctoral thesis (Doctiris program).
  • As a teacher, Take it ISI can help you set up a research project with a Brussels company under your supervISIon, or bring you to delegate some of your tasks to devote yourself to this research.
  • Whatever your status is, you have a revolutionary idea you want to check the feasibility or to which a prototype is needed. Take it ISI can help you find your ideal partner and Brussels to multiply your capital to achieve the critical mass necessary to achieve your projects.
  • ...

... But there are other possibilities that may be closer to your particular case. Their ideal implementation can be complex for a first edition and in the absence of privileged contacts with subsidiants agencies, the Take it ISI program was created especially for you to benefit from experience in InduTec this domain. Thus, for any research proposal and its financing, please contact us. We will receive you in total privacy to consider with you the best opportunities for achievement.

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beforbusiness®

On the sideline of Take it ISI program InduTec, in collaboration with the three technological research centers in high schools in Brussels (CERDECAM, and IrISIb Meurice R & D) is organizing the fifth edition of the annual contest beforbusiness® entrepreneurship.

Depending on the priorities set by the Brussels Region as a "Regional Plan for Innovation", and following a comparative study of the innovation potential of the various activities of multiple InduTec serving the Brussels Region, the 2016 edition of the contest will focus exclusively on innovative technological projects and participating groups must imperatively include a member (researcher, teacher, student) of one of our three Institutes (ECAM, ISIB, Institut Meurice)

Concretely, the winner will be the group that has best demonstrated the ability to create sustainable and profitable way a new proposal for technological market value (innovative product or service). To achieve this goal, participants will be encouraged to use the most relevant to them (technical or commercial feasibility studies, prototyping, technical and economic validation testing, market studies ...) tools, all listed in a business plan submitted late in the contest.

Among the evaluation criteria, the project implementation level plays a very important role. Economic constraints applied research that can be very different from a technological sector to another, depending on its stage of completion, the participant in the competition can choose to postpone the presentation of its business plan for the following year.

Project eligibility criteria:

  1. Without company :
    • Is a project to create innovative service or product and technological justifying the occupation of a researcher for at least one year and with substantial commercial interests leading to the creation of a new company in the Brussels region. (LAUNCH program)
    • Is a project to create innovative and technological service or product whose themes are urban development and public cleanliness, specifically applicable to the service of the Brussels region. (ANTICIPATE program)
  2. With a Brussels partner company
    • Any project to create innovative service or product and technology service company, at any stage of development.
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Traineeships & Final Paper Work

Through its contacts with the industrial world, InduTec sometimes receives requests for traineeships and/or final paper works.

Do not hesitate to contact us for current proposals or if you wish to propose a subject.

INDUTEC, the Technology Transfer Centre for your Innovation

As an interface of 3 Engineering Brussels University Colleges and Association subsidized by the Brussels-Capital Region, InduTec is an integral part of the innovation system in place since 2006, in the Brussels region and is an important part of the recovery process.

Since November 2007, InduTec expanded its core competencies in using all appropriate internal resources of other departments of the High Schools that belong to different higher institutions.

In line with the objectives of the Brussels-Capital Region, the mission of InduTec comprises four business areas:

1. Valorisation 

The exploitation and dissemination in any form of research results obtained in the High Schools. The aim is to integrate and use these results in the economic world in order to create added value for companies and the region. In practice, the valuation results in scientific publications, patent filings, licensing grants, business creations or spin-off, etc.

2. R&D

InduTec meets for several years to the demands of growing from the economic world, mainly in Brussels for R & amp projects; D fashion pure outsourcing or in cooperative mode. Whether entrepreneurs looking to start a new business or established companies, applications are mainly in the design and development of technical or commercial prototypes.

The strength lies in InduTec all extremely broad of technical expertise that few high-level mobilization for this type of project. In the commercial cycle of a business, InduTec's contribution is upstream from those generally offer the Business Centers, Business Angels and Venture Capitalists since the main objective is technological innovation with companies that generate added value.

To promote aid programs of the Brussels Region, InduTec actively involved in industrial research, pre-competitive development and technical feasibility by helping entrepreneurs and companies when submitting funding aid cases with the Brussels institutions.

Thus InduTec is considered by a number of entrepreneurs and business as an external public center of R&D, with all that it entails benefits for the company: no fixed costs but only an investment in R&D in line with the project, the possibility of support for a large part of R&D, not to mention the risk of reduced competition due to the special status of InduTec.

3. Entrepreneurship

InduTec participates in the results of transposition from the fundamental or applied scientific research into practical applications for the creation of new businesses in the Brussels-Capital Region (particularly in the programmeSpin-Off in Brussels). InduTec offers a comprehensive approach including​:

  • Selection and tangible definition of the innovating idea
  • Technological validation
  • Business management validation
  • Protection of the intellectual property
  • Spin-Off In Brussels (SOIB) submission
  • Design and development of a technical prototype
  • Market survey
  • Development of a commercial prototype
  • Business plan
  • Company creation

This approach is open to any individual who has an innovative idea and wishing to create a business or a business in the Brussels region.

4. Support the initiatives of the Brussels-Capital Region

InduTec used to help entrepreneurs and companies when submitting funding aid cases in the Brussels-Capital Region. InduTec involved in industrial research, pre-competitive development and technical feasibility study.

InduTec also provides assistance when submitting subsidy files for the realization of research projects whose themes are in the areas of jurisdiction of the Brussels region.

expertisesCompanies wishing to innovate can count on the expertise of our 3 University Colleges.

At left side is a list of available expertise.

The one you want is not in our list? You do not know exactly what (s) expert (s) you need?
Do not hesitate to contact us and explain your project. We will seek together what are the best paths or solutions available.

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InduTec is the interface between the Engineering Brussels University Colleges and economic world.

InduTec represents an important link in the high-level technical expertise valuation process and research results from the Brussels University Colleges.

Our small structure, flexible and multidisciplinary, also mastered all existing subsidies and guarantees total confidentiality on all of your projects.

All of these skills, available expertises and our network of partners are at your service to enhance your search results, solve technical problems or develop your new economic activities in Brussels.

The InduTec accompanying services are totally free and personalized.