Photonics innovation support

Product or process innovation can be an expensive and risky activity, especially when innovating with deep-tech technologies such as photonics. Ideally you need a fast and effective way to “test-before-invest” so you can experiment and get it right first-time at every step right up to a market-ready solution. PhotonHub provides this exact “test-before-invest” innovation support service. PhotonHub provides European companies, especially SMEs and even large companies who are first users and early adopters in photonics, with open access to the broadest possible range of cutting-edge photonics expertise, equipment and technologies available from the best facilities throughout Europe for the purpose of carrying out collaborative innovation projects. PhotonHub’s innovation support covers the entire value chain from early-stage concept and prototyping (TRL3-4), to upscaling (TRL5-6), to manufacturing (TRL7-8). PhotonHub uniquely supports and subsidises cross-border innovation projects, while simultaneously working closely with the local hubs in photonics in the European regions and the supply chain of photonics manufacturing in Europe to make the best and most suitable supports as widely available as possible to SMEs.