Philips was the original driving force behind the establishment of High Tech Campus Eindhoven. At the end of the 1990s, the R&D activities of the company were spread right across the city of Eindhoven. In 1998, Philips established the Philips High Tech Campus to act as a single location for all its international R&D activities. To reinforce the interaction between people with different technical backgrounds, Philips decided to open up the campus to other companies in 2003, renaming it the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. In March 2012 the Campus entered a new phase in its history. High Tech Campus Eindhoven was sold by Philips to Ramphastos Investments, a private consortium of investors led by Marcel Boekhoorn. Philips remains on the Campus as a tenant, but its status changed from owner/manager to resident. The campus attracts companies and research institutes engaging in advanced high-techresearch and development. This includes research and development activity in the area of hightech systems, nanotechnology, embedded systems, smart pharma, life sciences, as well as security and encryption.
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The High Tech Campus is located on the grounds of the former Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven. When Philips sold the campus, opening it to other tenants, the facilities such as laboratories, cleanrooms, test facilities were opened up to other residents. Companies on campus include for example ABB, Accenture, Analog Devices, Intel, IBM, Philips Research, Atos Origin, Aquaver, FluXXion, Cytocentrics, NXP, Texas Instruments, and Dalsa. The HTCE also hosts several publicly funded research institutes as well as collaborative entities such as , a cooperation between ECN, TNO, Holst Centre and TU/e, established to do research into thin film solar cells. Another example is EIT Digital, the knowledge and innovation community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology that has its Dutch co-location centre at the HTCE. EIT works with more than 200 European corporations, SMEs, start-ups, universities and research institutes. The HTCE also includes many smaller high-tech startups, scaleups, spinouts, and service providers The campus is in size and includes of R&D facilities, office space. 6.000 m2 is used by technology start-ups and an area of is reserved for development. The International Association of Science Parks ranks High Tech Campus in the top 17% of global science parks. The campus is designed around a social hub known as The Strip. This houses the campus conference center, restaurants and shops and is designed to allow people from different companies and fields to meet.
