About

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Let’s boost your capacity to innovate!

Since our foundation in 1969, we believe innovation is key for a better world, yet it’s not a walk in the park. In an integrated way we master innovation and address trends and challenges of tomorrow. That’s why we‘re called ‘Masters in Innovation’.

Welcome to the sweet spot of innovation! Verhaert is an independent pioneering European innovation factory. We cross industries to help ambitious corporations and start-ups to boost their capacity to innovate successfully.

Together we scout, invent, create, scale and fund digital and physical breakthrough products and services. To do so, we work in integrated multi-disciplinary teams combining in-depth expertise with great conceptual thinking.

Our offerings are all based on our RICE methodology, our competence labs and our enabling technology portfolio. We’re active in the market through the brands Verhaert, Beacon, LOAD and Lambda-X.

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Verhaert - About - Overview Verhaert group
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Today, Verhaert can look back at a rich history in innovation. A history in which we developed a unique organization and culture step by step. Our uniqueness? We combine multidisciplinary system engineering with a user centered design process and business insights.

[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b4″]1969[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Founded by Prof. Em. P. Verhaert, pioneering integrated product innovation in Belgium[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]1984[/title]
[title type=”h3″]First activity in space industry, developing systems engineering capabilities[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2001[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Design, build, launched and commissioned the first small EU satellite for ESA in orbit: PROBA (now QinetiQ Space nv)[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2005[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Kick off Perfect Draft program for AB InBev, developing FMCG insights[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2006[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Spin-out Verhaert Space, later sold to QinetiQ Plc[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2012[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Set up innovation center in the Netherlands[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2013[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Start on-site consultancy activities[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2014[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Start technology transfer and incubation services[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2015[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of Lambda-X[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2016[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of Moebius Consulting[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2017[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of LOAD[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2018[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of Pegus Digital[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2019[/title]
[title type=”h3″]50th anniversary and acquisition of BEACON[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2022[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE)[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2022[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of Bagaar[/title]
[title type=”h3″ color=”#9ea3b5″]2022[/title]
[title type=”h3″]Acquisition of The Engineering Network (TEN)[/title]
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[title type=”h3″]“The beauty of innovation lies in the fact that it is within reach of everybody on the planet. It is an endogen capacity of mankind for growth and value creation. It basically is an intellectual exercise shadowing all other competitive advantages that in most cases are only temporary.”[/title][spacer height=”20px”][title type=”h4″]- Paul Verhaert, Founder in 1969 -[/title][spacer height=”35px”]
Meet our founder (35 min)
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Verhaert Masters in Innovation is a community of RICE innovation professionals. RICE stands for Reliable, Innovative, Creative and Entrepreneurial. We believe those values are the basis of our success and the key to the interactions we have with our clients. Therefore we like make them explicit.

RELIABLE

Open, transparent, predictable and loyal

INNOVATIVE

State of the art, embracing the unknown

CREATIVE

Outside the box and solution oriented

ENTREPRENEURIAL

Hands on, engaged and pragmatic

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We work for ambitious companies in different sectors covering Aerospace, FMCG, Life Sciences, Industry, Internet of Things and Technology. Since 1969 we create successful breakthrough products with our customers.

Among them there are international market leaders such as AB InBev, Atlas Copco and Novartis as well as start-up companies. Thanks to our rich heritage, we are called ‘Masters in Innovation’.

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