Innovation
A resilient and innovation mindset has brought Revive to what it is today. To foster that we actively organise research and innovation challenges, encouraging our employees and partners to explore topics beyond their activities, expand their knowledge into new domains but also endorsing critical thinking about our company’s and industry’s current activities and challenges.
With our internal innovation teams we ensure that we have a structure to develop innovative concepts and transfer them to our projects. From neighbourhood sheds to temporary uses, real estate as a service, stakeholder communication platforms, data analyses, co-creation trajectories to WASCO, ESCO, home automation and more; They are all examples of our innovative DNA.
In addition to inhouse innovation trajectories Revive has launched and endorsed various start-up and accelerator initiatives within the real estate industry. Some examples include:
RECAP
Revive has launched RecAp in collaboration with ProptechLab, establishing the first resilient cities accelerator. RecAp is a dynamic, impact-focused programme designed to unite corporations and startups within the real estate sector to promote the development of resilient urban environments. To date, RecAp has successfully guided 30 startups through its
6-month programme, identifying over 300 meaningful connections between startups and corporations. An example of a successful innovation track is the partnership between Vandenbussche and AUAR. AUAR is automating the construction process of timber houses with robots in small production facilities called micro-factories.
GPSW
One of the ways we promote innovation is through the Ghent Proptech Startup Weekend, an annual hackathon held at our WATT The Firms offices. Our team together with students and competitors come to think about and pitch their innovative
ideas, experts and entrepreneurs are invited to share knowledge and experience. Finally, a jury awards a prize to the most promising concept. All in the spirit of learning, cooperation, and open innovation and with the goal of allowing innovative concepts to get included in our Revive projects.