Brainport Development (BPD) is a new style regional development agency whoch works with triple helix representatives to strenghten the Dutch Brainport Eindhoven region. Using “High Tech Systems and Materials” as the umbrella denomination and acknowledging fully we are an advanced manufacturing region in our core, we focus today mainly on digital KETs. BPD encourages and develops regional and (inter)national projects and programmes. BPD is the core orchestrator of the Eindhoven region innovation ecosystem. Stimulating research and building clusters to take up results and translate into market applications.