Building on Intel’s deep R&D and related experience in Europe – and having followed with great interest the development of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – Intel announced on January 28 2009, at the European Parliament, the creation of Intel Labs Europe, with the goal of expanding the scope of its European R&D activities. Intel Labs Europe aims to drive even closer collaboration with European researchers and policy makers, EU initiatives including exploratory research, methods of using ICT to improve the efficiency of industries and increasing the quality and productivity of ICT overall. Likely areas of focus include visual computing, software development, virtualization and high performance computing.
Structurally, Intel Labs Europe will serve as a coordination point for Intel’s new collaborative research projects in Europe and is goaled with scaling research programs under a common management team and coordinating work with the European research community and policy makers. The Mission of Intel Labs Europe is to advance Intel Architecture Research and Innovation and to partner with European stakeholders to improve European Competitiveness. With the establishment of ILE, Intel is establishing a strong network of its existing labs in Europe and preparing a platform for further investment and advanced innovation activity. At the launch Intel is announcing the establishment of two open labs in Munich, Germany and Leixlip, Ireland to enable and host open innovation activities such as participation in EU Framework 7 (FP7) research activities and joint innovation programs with leading European companies, high potential start-ups and universities. Intel Labs Europe is actively exploring new research programs with discussions underway with institutions including the University of Saarland in Germany and a research co-lab with SAP. Current discussions between CEA, Genci, Intel and the University of Versailles in France focus on creating a lab to address future high performance computing challenges for EU customers. Intel hopes to begin funding these projects in the next few months. Intel Labs Europe also plans further alignment with the EIT initiative as it develops.
Intel Labs Europe will coordinate innovation activity and future investments against an Innovation Agenda focused on enabling a Digital Europe which is aligned with the renewed EU Lisbon Strategy and the EU i2010 strategic initiative. A focused research agenda will include areas such as advanced microprocessor research, high performance computing, enterprise solutions and green computing.
Intel Labs Europe, our research locations and open innovation collaborations:
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