The ICD

Where High-tech Innovation Connects

ICD

Where High-tech Innovation connects

We are the ICD, or Innovatiecluster Drachten, a group of collaborating high-tech companies in the Northern Netherlands. We lead the way with technical innovations in products and solutions worldwide.

Our R&D departments work together in a unique way and, instead of competing with each other, support and reinforce each other. Every year, we create more than 50 innovative products worldwide.
These products contribute to society in the areas of safety, simplifying the operation of complex systems, providing access to data that improve food quality, and tailoring them to individual consumer needs.
Our collaboration is called Innovatiecluster Drachten and is centrally located in the smart factory region of North-West Europe.

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Our Big 5 of the high-tech

Together, we develop the solutions of the future with our ‘Big 5’ of high-tech: robotics, 3D metal printing, remote sensing & big data, visual intelligence and renewable propulsion. In doing so, we work toward a healthy environment, better and safer food, advanced healthcare, a safer society and sustainable working conditions.

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