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addition, PGI opens up new value spaces beyond the
direct scope of current businesses (Emerging Business
Areas), manages the Company-funded R&D portfolio,
and creates synergy for cross-sector initiatives.
PGI encompasses Philips Research, Philips Innovation
Services, the Philips Innovation Campus in Bangalore,
the Philips Innovation Center Shanghai, Philips Design,
the Philips Healthcare Incubator, and the Emerging
Business Areas. In total, PGI employs some 5,000
professionals around the globe.
PGI actively participates in Open Innovation through
relationships with academic and industrial partners, as
well as via European and regional projects, in order to
improve innovation eectiveness and eciency,
capture and generate new ideas, enhance technology
partnering capabilities, and share the related nancial
exposure. The High Tech Campus in Eindhoven
(Netherlands), the Philips Innovation Campus in
Bangalore (India), and the Philips Innovation Center in
Shanghai (China) are prime examples of environments
enabling Open Innovation.
Through Open Innovation, Philips also seeks to ensure
proximity of innovation activities to growth
geographies. Underlining its commitment to locally
relevant innovations, Philips established an Innovation
Hub for Africa in Nairobi (Kenya), which is enabling the
co-creation of new solutions, business models and
partnerships to address key challenges in the continent
and provide meaningful innovations. This innovation
hub cooperates closely with local universities, NGOs
and start-ups. As a result, the rst Philips Community
Life Center was opened in Kenya, which provides
access to healthcare, enables social, educational and
commercial activities after dark, and enhances
neighborhood safety and security.
A joint initiative between PGI, IT and multiple Philips
businesses aims at speeding up digital innovation to
create personalized solutions. One of the results in 2014
was that Philips, together with Radboud University in
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, created the rst wearable
diagnostic prototype for patients with a chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that feeds data
collected from patients at home to clinicians through
the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform.
Philips Research
Philips Research, which celebrated its 100th
anniversary in 2014, is the main partner of Philips’
operating businesses for technology-enabled
innovation. It creates new technologies and the related
intellectual property (IP), which enables Philips to grow
in businesses and markets. Together with the
businesses and the markets, Philips Research co-
creates innovations to strengthen the core businesses
as well as to open up new opportunities in adjacent
business areas. Research’s innovation pipeline is
aligned with Philips’ vision and strategy and inspired by
unmet customer needs as well as major societal
challenges.
At Light & Building, the world’s leading trade fair for
lighting and building services technology, Philips
launched Power-over-Ethernet connected lighting.
This ground-breaking lighting system enables the
connection of oce lighting xtures to a building’s IT
network, via standard network cables. The lighting
system acts as an information pathway, enabling
workers to control and access other building services
via their smartphones and reduces the cost of
ownership for building owners.
In the area of Healthcare, Philips Research co-created
with John Hopkins University and Hospital a new 3D
MRI-based technology to assess liver tumor response
after chemo-embolization. This 3D technology can
precisely measure living and dying tumor tissue to
quickly show whether highly toxic chemotherapy –
delivered directly through a tumor’s blood supply – is
working.
Together with Consumer Lifestyle, several digital
propositions for connected products have been co-
created, such as the Smart Air Purier, which provides
insights into the cleanness of the air via an app. Another
example is the iGrooming app, which provides
consumers with a style preview and advice for shaving.
Philips and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
announced a strategic cooperation aimed at
accelerating the exploration and development of digital
innovations in healthcare, lighting and data science.
Philips Innovation Services
Philips Innovation Services oers a wide range of
technical and industry consulting services in
development, industrialization and supply chain.
Innovation Services’ skills are leveraged by Philips
Businesses, Markets and Philips Group Innovation in all
regions and in a wide range of projects across the end-
to-end value chain.
Examples of recent contributions by Innovation
Services are: the Vereos PET/CT scanner; the Smart Air
Purier; the SlimStyle LED lamp and Luminous Carpets.
Innovation Services also supports Philips’ drive to
deliver innovations that are locally relevant, such as a
low-cost LED lamp for Africa.
Philips Innovation Campus Bangalore
Philips Innovation Campus Bangalore (PIC) hosts
activities from most of our operating businesses, Philips
Research, Design, IP&S, and IT. Healthcare is the largest
R&D organization at PIC, with activities in Imaging
Systems, Patient Care & Monitoring Solutions, and
Healthcare Informatics, Solutions & Services. While PIC
originally started as a software center, it has since
developed into a broad product development center
(including mechanical, electronics, and supply chain