Ann: BrainChip announces collaboration with Safran, page-337

No mention of Spikenet or BRN but a client of Spikenet....

Siemens is taking new approaches when it comes to innovation and is significantly expanding its collaboration with start-ups. By founding next47, an independent unit designed to supercharge cooperation with start-ups, the company aims to promote disruptive ideas more intensely and to further accelerate the development of new technologies. The Managing Board will provide one billion euros for this purpose over the next five years.

Artificial intelligence, decentralized electrification, autonomous machines, block chain applications, and connected e-mobility — these are the five fields where next47 will operate. As a result, next47 is a central component of the Siemens strategy in the growth segments of electrification, automation, and digitalization.

The new unit’s first project, agreed on with Airbus in April 2016, is the electrification of aviation. The two companies aim to demonstrate the technical feasibility of hybrid/electric propulsion systems for aircraft ranging from small planes to medium-sized passenger aircraft by 2020.

next47 will operate globally and cater to all regions of the world from locations that include Berkeley, Shanghai, and Munich. Siemens has worked with start-ups for around 20 years. Over 800 million euros have been invested in around 180 start-ups. Siemens has contact with more than 2,000 start-ups every year, launches around 20 cooperation ventures a year, and has founded more than a dozen start-ups of its own.

https://www.siemens.com/innovation/...ent/innovations-siemens-start-ups-next47.html