The lecture discussed the challenge of increasing complexity in the high-tech equipment industry and how new (model-based) development methodologies leveraging abstraction, boundedness, and composition are required to address it. He argued that the required innovation should come from collaboration in an innovation chain, where universities, applied research organizations, and industry work together in strategic partnerships. The presentation concluded with a number of concrete examples of what this collaboration could look like, based on examples from his education and research at TNO and the University of Amsterdam. The inaugural lecture was followed by a reception full of networking and congratulations.

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