Flanders InShape, the Flemish Competence Centre for Product Development and Industrial Design is a research centre for design and user driven innovation.

It is the ambition of Flanders InShape to reinforce the competitive power of Flemish companies and to enhance the success rate of their innovations significantly, which will in turn help to solve social challenges.

In order to achieve this ambition, Flanders InShape will develop practical knowledge and tools in this field, aiming at a maximal dissemination of this knowledge to the target group through stakeholders and other partners in Flanders. The platform operations will guarantee a dynamic flow between all partners involved.

The objectives of Flanders InShape

• Knowledge development for the target group - Flemish companies
• Knowledge transfer to a broad target group
• Platform operations with all partners involved: companies, designers, knowledge centres, sector federations and institutions of higher education