The developments in ICT are moving at an incomprehensibly fast pace. No one knows what the ICT applications of tomorrow will be. It is therefore important that ICT professionals develop into critical professionals who continue to search for solutions to future challenges. The Fontys ICT InnovationLab is an Open Innovation environment with space for experimentation and for exploring all possible ideas for practice-oriented research questions within the ICT domain. The InnovationLab is designed to stimulate chance encounters between people with specific knowledge. After all, chance encounters lead to surprising new insights, products, and business models.
Since September 2018, the Fontys ICT InnovationLab has been located at Strijp-T in Eindhoven. Situated in the historical innovation heart of the region, education, research, and industry are intertwined to work on ICT innovation. In the 4000m2 TQ building, various research groups are housed in areas such as Big Data, AI, Blockchain, and Interaction Design. The industry, in the form of Partners in Innovation, collaborates here with 600 junior ICT researchers (students) and 50 senior researchers on a wide range of issues to accelerate the digital transformation of the region.
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