April 2013
Collaborating to reduce vulnerability of Critical infrastructures. Building bridges between Europe and Asia by putting together experts of Water and Planning & Housing
Last March we were invited as MARE project coordinators to share our expertise in Flood Management with the National Housing Authority of Thailand. Sebastiaan van Herk,…
January 2013
B&W keynote at TRAIN2 cross border regional collaboration event on nanotechnology
Last November, Laszlo Bax presented his views on nanotechnology technology transfer best approaches at the event 'TRAIN2, Trans-Pyrenees Industry Forum on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology'. Subsequently, he…
Room for the River evaluation final results
The final results of the evaluation of Room for the River were presented at the international conference ”Room for the River: a new governance approach in…
B&W presentation on business models in ICT for social housing at Smart City Conference
On November 13th, Laszlo Bax made a presentation on business models in ICT for social housing at the Smart City Expo in Barcelona based on first…
B&W supports creation of transnational innovation programme in Life Sciences, kick-off 1 February
After a year’s intensive preparation work, on 1 February 2013, the IN2LifeSciences support programme for transnational collaboration on innovation in Life Sciences will be fully operational.…
October 2012
How to involve consumers in the innovation process
Consumer centered innovation presentation of Anneke Stolk (B&W), on how to involve consumers in the process of new (food) product development, for the seminar "geïnspireerd door…
Great opportunity in Energy Efficiency refurbishments of buildings – but why do most companies still struggle to generate substantial business in this market?
It’s been said a thousand times: the market of making existing buildings more energy efficient will be huge, and should grow to be larger than the…
Getting agrofood companies to try Open Innovation
The Dutch Food sector platform Food Valley involved Bax&Willems to develop an Agro-food Ideation Lab and to facilitate their workshops in Open Innovation and Co-Creation. Once…
Fact based regional policy making when it comes to innovation
Regions all over Europe are working hard to develop their Smart Specialisation Strategies as requested to them by the European Commission. However, few of them (if…
Oportunidades intersectoriales en la eficiencia energética de edificios en la UE (2013-14)
Conferencia Bax & Willems y ACC1Ó, en el marco del proyecto Building Up, organizaron la conferencia “Descubra las oportunidades inter-sectoriales (2013-14) en la eficiencia energética de…
May 2012
Agro-food Ideation Lab in place
Food Valley has hired Bax&Willems to help setting up a transnational product ideation laboratory for the Agro-food industry. In this respect, in collaboration with B&W´s Partner…
B&W organizes the BUILDING-UP workshop at the 10th Suschem Stakeholder Event in Brussels
Bax & Willems, who represents the European Technology Platform (ETP) Suschem in the BUILDING-UP project, organized a BUILDING-UP workshop at the 10th Suschem Stakeholder Event in…
B&W presents FASILIS and IN2LifeSciences at the ShareBiotech event
At the second public event of ShareBiotech, titled Fostering Open Innovation in Biotechnology: New approaches in biopharmaceutical delivery and building networks in biotechnology, Anneke Stolk presented…
April 2012
12th International Convention of Melaka Twin Cities 2012
B&W’s Sebastiaan van Herk was invited to speak on the 12th International Convention of Melaka Twin Cities 2012: be prepared for emergency disaster preparedness and risk…
March 2012
B&W spin-off MCH+ acquired by German software company
PMCS.helpLine Software Group has acquired the software developer MCH+. The dutch company based in Leiden, close to Amsterdam, develops and distributes software designed for organizing and…
Automotive innovation
B&W supported several consortia in the submission of substantial R&D projects under the Green Car PPP call that closed early December 2011. We now have learned…
January 2012
B&W presents composite material research project HIVOCOMP at EUCAR Conference
Bax & Willems partner Menno van Rijn had the chance to present the HIVOCOMP at the EUCAR reception and conference in 8-9 November 2011 in Brussels.…
July 2011
Systemic retrofit Open Innovation facilitation workshop was a success
Last month we held a very inspiring workshop on systemic retrofit challenges and opportunities. B&W brought together some of the most innovative industrial companies and some…
Clean Skies proposal successful
B&W supported this Spring one of its large industrial clients in the field of electrified drivetrains in the preparation of a bid within the Clean Skies…
ObservatoryNano conference and exhibition stand in Budapest
Last month Bax & Willems organized the annual workshop of the ObservatoryNano project; the event took place as part of the EuroNanoForum conference in Budapest. We…
April 2011
How to drastically reduce energy consumption in buildings: 2 breakthrough demonstration projects launched
Reducing energy use in buildings is one of Europe's main objectives in improving sustainability of our society; 25% of all energy consumption takes place here. This…
ObservatoryNANO news
ObservatoryNano is the only EU funded observatory in Europe on nanotechnology advances and their impact in industries and societies, in which Bax & Willems leads the…
Recent innovation policy services developed / sourced by B&W
Increasingly, Bax & Willems is developing its innovation facilitation services in collaboration with partners. Recently, we built upon work by the Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing…
September 2010
B&W completes study on industry transitions caused by growing segment of electric vehicles
Although predictions on market growth still vary widely, it is clear that the rise of electric vehicles may have a profound impact on the automotive value…
Open Innovation summer class in La Rioja, Spain
Laszlo Bax opened this year's Summer Class of the Chair of Innovation at the university of La Rioja, organized by Prof Julio Blanco Fernandez for the…
May 2010
Social Housing companies innovating together with their value chain and their peers across Europe
Since quite a few years, one of the key focus areas of B&W is that of sustainable buildings and sustainable urban (re)development. Increasingly we are in…
Innovative national pilot on Multi Level Safety approach
The MARE project, 'Managing Adaptive REsponses to changing flood risk' is selected as a national policy pilot on Multi Level Safety. The Dutch national government commissioned…
New ObservatoryNANO reports now available
As one of the leaders of the ObservatoryNano project, Bax & Willems has co-authoresd four reports about the impact of nanotechnology in different industrial activities, including…
Barcelona's Network of Experts for Innovative Companies
The local development agency of the City Council of Barcelona (Barcelona Activa) has launched the Network of Experts for Innovative Enterprises. It is formed by professionals…
January 2010
Helping solar energy related technology companies to foster R&D activities in Spain
Sun is one of the key attraction factors of Spain. If traditionally for the tourism, lately also for the renewable energy sector. With over 2.500 hours…
Use of learning environments in Road Map: Towards a Flood Resilient Urban Environment, 26-27 November, Paris.
Europe spends over 55M Euro a year on a rather balanced portfolio of flood-related research, but how do we set up and steer these research projects?…
March 2009
Smart Energy Home in the 7th SusChem Stakeholder Event and ESADE Business Forum in Cleaner Energies
NEW: The SEH presentation at the Suschem Stakeholder Event can be downloaded here Smart Energy Home (SEH) integrates leading EU industrial players in the aim to…
January 2009
Two new INTERREG IVB projects approved
Last December two new Interreg IVB projects co-defined by B&W were approved: MARE: (Managing Adaptative Responses to changing flood risk in the North Sea Region) under…
November 2008
Open innovation on everyone's lips...
In the Catalan Foment del Treball Nacional’s special monographic publication devoted to innovation in companies, an article was published on Open Innovation, written by the Managing…
