Competencies

Design

At Philips, design is far more than just creating good-looking products. Design at Philips is a key element in the innovation process and is applied throughout the Philips Group companies as a business method.

Intellectual property

Philips’ substantial investment in R&D has generated many breakthrough inventions, such as the Compact Cassette system and the laser based optical disc systems CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-R/RW, SACD and various DVD-formats.

Research

Founded in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1914, Philips Research now is one of the world’s major private research organizations, with laboratories in the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Germany, the United States, China and India, collectively some 2,100 people.

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