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Since 1969 We help companies & entrepreneurs to innovate

Our story

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.

What we offer

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50 years of leadership in innovation

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.

1969

Founded by Prof. Em. P. Verhaert, pioneering integrated product innovation in Belgium

1984

First activity in space industry, developing systems engineering capabilities

2001

Design, build, launched and commissioned the first small EU satellite for ESA in orbit: PROBA (now QinetiQ Space nv)

2005

Kick off Perfect Draft program for AB InBev, developing FMCG insights

2006

Spin-out Verhaert Space, later sold to QinetiQ Plc

2012

Set up innovation center in the Netherlands

2013

Start on-site consultancy activities

2014

Start technology transfer and incubation services

2015

Acquisition of Lambda-X

2016

Acquisition of Moebius Consulting

2017

Acquisition of LOAD

2018

Acquisition of Pegus Digital

2019

50th anniversary and acquisition of BEACON

2022

Acquisition of Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship (AfCE)

2022

Acquisition of Bagaar

2022

Acquisition of The Engineering Network (TEN)

Pioneer in product development & innovation consultancy

“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.”

– Paul Verhaert, Founder in 1969 –

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Values, summarized by RICE

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

Key figures

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’.

Technology building blocks

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Ventures accelerated & financed

IR&D services turnover

Patents generated

Products developed

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Verhaert Masters in Innovation is a pioneering innovation group helping companies and entrepreneurs to innovate, creating new products, businesses and services.

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