1. BELGIUM and its ICT Industry
Jan DEPREST
January 16th, 2012
Moldova

2. Belgium Denmark UK Ireland The Netherlands Germany Switzerland France
Leeds
The Netherlands
Liverpool
Dublin
Den Hague
Amsterdam
Cardiff
London
Rotterdam
Germany
Antwerp
Belgium
Cologne
Brussels
Bonn
Frankfurt
The economic power base of Europe:
the “Golden Banana”,
Belgium is in the center.
Luxembourg
Strasbourg
Stuttgart
Paris
Bern
Switzerland
Milan
France
Italy
Rome
Spain
Barcelona

3. Belgium at the heart of Europe
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Belgium offers access to the largest one-day-market in Europe: main markets can be served within 24 hours
750 km
236 Mio consumers (53%)
€ 6 Tri GDP (67%)
500 km
131 Mio consumers (29%)
€ 3,7 Tri GDP (42%)
250 km
54 Mio consumers (12%)
€ 1,5 Tri GDP (17%)
Total EU population: 490 Mio
Total EU GDP: € trillion
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Report 2004

4. Belgium “Most Globalized” - award KOF
Source: KOF Press Release
Jan 29, 2009

5. Globally recognized Productivity
Productive, Multi-lingual Workforce
Belgium

6. High-Performance Educational System
Belgium
Belgium
Belgium
Sharp focus on applied skills

7. Industry is driving ICT ICT is driving Industry
Major Industries
Automotive
BFS
Logistics
Industry is driving ICT
ICT is driving Industry
Chemicals
and Plastics
Food
Life sciences
SME

8. Broadband Country, advanced e-Gov
Households: Belgium is a broadband country
Two competing broadband technologies: ADSL and cable
Broadband: 55% of households connected
PC: two third of households have home
Companies: 99% of SMEs are Internet-connected and use all sorts of ICT-applications
Government: interesting e-gov building blocks:
eID, database of entreprises and citizens, platform using Social Security authentic sources,…

9. The ICT knowledge base of Belgium

10. The Belgian ICT-sector: employment
Employment: people
about 3,4% of Belgian employment
Information technology
IT-hardware, services & software:
85 500
Development & production of ICT:
20 600
Telecom-operators:
44 400

11. ICT expertise in Belgium Research Centers and education system
IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology)
focus on: e-health | New media | Mobility | Image processing | e-Government and enabling technologies
Multi-disciplinary and demand driven research
600 highly skilled researchers
IMEC (Interdisciplinary Micro-Electronics Center)
Europe’s largest independent research center in nano-electronics and nano-technology
over 1,600 employees coming from all over the world
research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport
University research centers: Leuven, Ghent, Brussels
High quality education system

12. ICT Expertise in Belgium excellence centers in companies
Centers of excellence in companies: Alcatel-Lucent Bell, Barco, Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Agfa, LMS, Metris, Zetes, Vasco Data Security, Philips, Option, Televic…
Belgian ICT-sector = 4% of GDP, but 20% of all R&D-efforts…
Government support systems for company R&D
Project support
Fiscal measures
75 % of withholding tax not due for company employees active in R&D

13. Belgium : 6 domains of expertise in ICT
Nano-electronics, nano-technologies & micro-electronics
Financial security solutions & smart card technology
Telematics, GPS, cartography & Location Based Services, Geo-ICT
Telecommunication & Network equipment
Digital audio-video products & digital printing
Software products

14. 1. Nano-electronics & Micro-Electronics
IMEC, AMI semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Tyco Electronics, …
IMEC, a world-class micro-electronics research center with lots of spin-offs

15. 2. Financial Security Solutions & Smart card technology
Authentication solutions, smart card technologies, IT-governance, compliance, integrated financial solutions,…
Capco, Zetes, Callataÿ & Wouters, Certipost, Verizon, Utimaco Safeware, Vasco Data Security, Norkom, Intellect, Clear2Pay, Isabel, Keyware Technologies, Diebold, Cable Print, Cosic, Financial Architects,…
LSEC – ICT security cluster
Agoria Banking Club : exporters of financial IT solutions

16. Examples of authentication and smart card technology applications

17. 3. Telematics, GPS, cartography, Location Based Services, Geo-ICT, road pricing, …
Mercator, inventor of the cartography in 16th century, was born in Flanders
Septentrio, Punch Telematix, Transics, Tele Atlas (Tom Tom), Luciad, Traficon, GIM (Geographic Information Management),…
ITS (Intelligent Traffic Systems) & Telematics Cluster

18. Cartography: a Belgian tradition

19. 4. Telecom & Network Equipment (Fixed and Wireless)
Alcatel-Lucent Bell,
Ericsson,
Nokia-Siemens Networks,
Telindus,
Televic,
Newtec,
Option,
Scientific Atlanta/Cisco,
Zenitel,
Septentrio…

20. Successful Belgian telecom products

21. 5. Digital Audio-Video Products & Digital printing
Philips,
Barco,
Agfa Health Care,
Esko Artwork,
Alfacam,
Scientific Atlanta/Cisco…

22. Examples of digital audio-video and digital printing applications

23. 6. Software products
LMS, Materialise, Inventive Designers, Real Dolmen, ACA-IT-solutions, Invenso, Produmex, Metris, Helios-IT, …
Speech & Language Technology: Nuance,…
Gaming: Larian Studios
Agoria ISV (Independent Software Vendors-platform)
Mobile applications: Jamo, …
Media: Adam Software, …

24. A few illustrations of succesful software developers
LMS “Virtual.Lab Desktop”
Materialize “Magics”
Metris “Camio Studio”
Larian Studios “Superia”

25. Conclusion Belgium ICT expertise = IP and product, solution driven
Expertise in number of areas, build on in-depth industry knowledge
ICT as enabling technology

27. Certipost, your partner in electronic and paper document exchange, is a specialised and experienced service provider enabling secure electronic data interchange between companies, consumers and government institutions.
Gert Roeckx

28. COSIC is a research group with multi-disciplinary researchers from all over the world who are specialized in computer security and industrial cryptography.
Danny Decock

29. LIN.K nv is a Belgian privately owned leading provider of technologies and services for:
online user registration, identification, strong authentication
digital signature/validation of data/transactions using smart
cards, mobile (smart)phones, tokens and biometrics
Mario Houthooft

30. VASCO is a world leader in Strong Authentication and Electronic and Digital Signature solutions, specializing in online accounts, identities and transactions.
Bart Renard

31. Services offered: Network solutions Security solutions IT solutions
Communications solutions
Johan SYS

32. Zetes are an EMEA leading provider of identification and mobility solutions. By utilising high-secure identification, data capture and data communication technologies they link people to their unique identity.
Sarah Dheedene
Ronny Depoortere

33. Jan DEPREST
Walter VAN ASSCHE
Frank LEYMAN
Sebastiaan De Brouwere

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