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July 5, 2019

Here is where big corporates can order up a new startup like a pizza

Can a new breed of field lab help companies innovate better?


Maija Palmer

9 min read

“We don’t just match companies with startups, we go into the bedroom with them. We go to their wedding day,” says Arnaud Huvelin, head of industrialisation at IoT Valley, the tech ecosystem and one of Europe's innovation labs, on the outskirts of Toulouse in France. “[The PR team] hate when I use that metaphor, but it is true, we get deeply involved.”

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Corporate partners at IoT Valley
Corporate partners pay an annual fee to get access to IoT Valley innovation
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Stephan Rutten with the Lobster undersea exploration probe
Stephan Rutten with the Lobster undersea exploration probe
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"Real life if buggy" says Jaimy Siebel when the haptic glove fails to work.
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RoboHouse system for visualising a robotics project
RoboHouse helps corporate customers visualise automation projects with these coloured cards.
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Cheese-flipping robot built for Lely
Cheese-flipping robot designed for Lely
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Heineken robot that helps pick up fallen bottles
Party of one: an assembly line robot tested by Heineken
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