Jef Vandenberghe | Managing Partner

Idea generation: bandaids

What do you do? Search for the First Aid kit (do we have that?), establish that the disinfectant is overtime (nevermind), try to open the…

New Product Development, looking beyond Horizon 1

It’s time for the manufacturing industry to roll up its sleeves and re-think its new product development strategy. Refining existing products is no longer enough.

Innovation roundtable - return on innovation

Innovation roundtable – How to increase your ‘return on…

While the importance of innovation is crystal clear for many organizations, daily execution usually remains challenging. When renewing products, services or business processes, companies often…

beware of the not invented here syndrome - innovation fact 4b- creax innovation experts

Innovation Fact 4b – Beware of the “not invented…

We tend to criticize and discard ideas that did not originate from us, consciously or unconsciously. Beware of this and always look at ideas and…

Compîle – plastic soup skimmer

Millions of tons of plastics are floating around in our seas. Marine life often mistakes these plastics for food and chokes on it. The compîle…

The healthy snack

What is a 'healthy snack'? What about clean label? How can they be made in compliance with existing production processes, and is scalable? A comprehensive…

Learn from the best: nature and biomimicry - innovation fact 13 - creax innovation

Innovation Fact 13 – Learn from the best: biomimicry

Biomimicry or learning from nature will only gain importance in the future. Before companies make any design decisions, they should ask: “How would nature solve…

Rapid prototyping is much more than 3D printing

Due to the increased accessibility to additive manufacturing technologies – commonly referred to as 3D printing – this technique is now widely used in the…

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Idea generation: Meet spiro, a new way of drilling

Isn’t it odd that you need a different drill bit for each hole you want to drill. We came up with Spiro, the drilling bot…

Leveraging open innovation: 6 key insights from our Innovation…

a small group of innovation enthusiasts to exchange insights and best practices. Hot topic of the day: open innovation. What did the conversation boil down…

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