New business initiatives

Our venturing program provides a secure environment for new businesses to emerge. It gives research ideas the chance to flourish and prove their worth before being transferred to the next stage of their development. When they have successfully gone through the early stages of business development, they are either moved to one of our three Incubator organizations, or spun out to give them the chance to thrive with help from external investors. Through this strategic building up of emerging business units, Philips creates early access to new fields of value creation. Some examples of ventures that have originated from Philips Research are: + 3D solutions Philips 3D Solutions brings the 3D viewing experience to you without the need for special 3D glasses. It provides end-to-end 3D system solutions ranging from 3D displays for professional use, 3D content creation and conversion tools to technology licensing. Part of Philips Technology Incubator + Aerasense Philips Aerasense operates in the domain of air quality improvement. It is a competence center and provider of knowledge and high value enabling solutions for assessment of health hazardous ultra-fine particles in the air. Part of Philips Research + CareServant Philips CareServant offers sophisticated options to improve your stay in a hospital, such as information and communication combined with entertainment features. It takes over many other small tasks, so there is more time for real attention and care. Part of Philips Lifestyle Incubator + Digital Pathology In Healthcare Informatics, we offer radiology information systems (RIS) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for medical images that are generated in cardiology and radiology departments, advanced clinical imaging applications and departmental clinical management systems. Philips Digital Pathology is using this expertise to develop integrated digital solutions for the acquisition, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data in the pathology domain. Part of Philips Healthcare Incubator   + Digital Photon Counting The Philips Digital Photon Counting business venture is committed to designing, developing and commercializing components and modules based around its digital silicon photomultiplier technology. It does so in collaboration with trusted technology and application partners, delivering superior photon-counting performance to applications. Part of Philips Healthcare Incubator   + Handshake solutions Handshake Solutions offers a methodology for designing self-timed circuitry that allows commercial exploitation of clockless technology. What’s more, these self-timed designs are easily integrated into complete systems. Part of Philips Technology Incubator + Handheld Immunoassays Philips Handheld Immunoassays focuses on developing innovative solutions to revolutionize point-of-care testing. As a global leader and innovator in point-of-care solutions for critical care and home healthcare environments, Philips has established the Handheld Immunoassays business venture to develop novel handheld diagnostic testing solutions based on our new Magnotech technology. Part of Philips Healthcare Incubator   + Lumalive Philips Lumalive is a new medium to convey emotions and messages. By integrating multicolor LEDs (light-emitting diodes) into textile objects Philips Lumalive transforms them into communication platforms, while their textile look & feel retains. Part of Philips Technology Incubator   + Orthopedic Trainer In rehabilitation, the Philips Orthopedic Trainer supports the patients’ independent training via video instructions and audio feedback. Part of Philips Research   + Shapeways Shapeways, the world's first 3D co-creation community, brings design to life with cost effective, high quality 3D printing. Part of Philips Lifestyle Incubator   + Therapy Imaging Probe System (TIPS) The Therapy and Imaging Probe System (TIPS) is a general purpose tool that allows scientists to perform pre-clinical research using high-intensity focused or therapeutic ultrasound. Part of Philips Research + uWand Based on direct pointing, Philips uWand does away with the complexity and multitude of buttons associated with conventional remote controls and instead harnesses the power of movement. Part of Philips Research Spun out ventures + amBX amBX delivers total immersion in home entertainment. A revolutionary technology, extending your entertainment - games, films, music and more - out into the living space around you. Spun out with capital investment from Prime Technology Ventures and Philips, 2008 + Civolution Civolution offers world-class watermarking and fingerprinting solutions for content owners, broadcasters and other businesses to help control their media assets and enable new revenue streams. Spun out with capital investment from Prime Technology Ventures and Philips, 2008 + Intrinsic ID Philips Intrinsic ID’s PUF technology allows IP to be made widely available without the fear of cloning. Spun out with capital investment from Prime Technology Ventures and Philips, 2008 + Liquavista Liquavista's display technology shows bright, colorful images and video content with very low power consumption. Based on electrowetting technology, its radical yet simple high-valued displays are ideally suited for a wide variety of portable and mobile devices. Spun out with capital investment from New Venture Partners and Philips, 2005 + Polymer Vision Polymer Vision, a spin-out of Philips Research, currently is the pioneer and mobile industry leader for rollable display enabled hand-held devices. The company's first product, the Readius ®, is a pocket sized e-reader combining a large rollable display with 3G high speed connectivity. Spun out with capital investment from Technology Capital SA, 2007 + Priv-ID Philips priv-ID offers world-class multi-modal private biometric solutions that make your identity application anonymous, scalable and low-cost. Spun out with capital investment from Prime Technology Ventures and Philips, 2008 + Serious Toys Serious Toys is a venture that develops tangible, electronic toys and games that offer a perfect merge of entertainment and personalized learning. Spun out with capital investment from Prime Technology Ventures and Philips, 2008 + Silicon Hive Silicon Hive licenses embedded parallel processor architectures, compilers, and programming tools to semiconductor manufacturers and OEMs. Their parallel processors enable System on Chip (SoC) manufacturers to build products boasting throughputs of 100’s of giga-operations per second for applications like high-definition video processing and wireless communications. Spun out with capital investment from New Venture Partners, TVM Capital and Philips, 2007

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