What?
Unites industry and education
Antwerp Design Factory (ADF) brings designers, scientists and entrepreneurs together to innovate and facilitates collaboration between professionals and students. In this way, ADF wants to stimulate collective inspiration, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking. ADF educates the innovators of the future.
Translates academic expertise to products and services
There is a vast treasure trove of knowledge and technology within the University of Antwerp. A challenge is to translate this into marketable products or services. Antwerp Design Factory supports academics and research groups in the valorisation process.
Offers a unique multidisciplinary methodology for innovation
Via the Antwerp Design Factory, the education programme and research group of Product Development offers a unique methodology to tackle product development or innovation challenges in a systematic and multidisciplinary way. These challenges contain processes that integrate humane, economic and technical aspects.
Facilitates fast prototyping cycles
There is an open and creative environment with facilities available for experiments, verification and testing. Antwerp Design Factory routinely develops prototypes and demonstrators for industrial and research partners.
For who?
Industry and society
The Antwerp Design Factory deals with design challenges within industry and society, and where necessary integrates expertise from specialised disciplines and research groups.
Research groups
Antwerp Design Factory offers its productisation capabilities to research groups that see an opportunity to commercialise their expertise, technology or knowledge in products or services.
Enterprising students
As a pre-incubator, the Antwerp Design Factory offers students the opportunity to further prepare their master thesis topics and business ideas for launching their own start-up.
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Team
Principal investigators
Researchers
Alumni researchers
- Jochen Vleugels
- Alexander Van Gastel
- Sam Smedts
- Andres Vanhooydonck
- Lore Pauwels
- Drim Stokhuijzen
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