Starlab

Starlab
Formation1996
FounderWalter de Brouwer
Nicholas Negroponte
PurposeFundamental research
HeadquartersBrussels, Belgium
Region
International
AffiliationsMIT
University of Oxford
Ghent University
Staff130 (2001)
Websitestarlab.org

Starlab NV/SA was a multidisciplinary, blue sky research institute established to serve as an incubator for long-term and basic research in the spirit of Bell Labs, MIT Media Lab, Xerox PARC, and Interval Research. Its primary headquarters was based in Brussels, Belgium from 1996 to 2001. A second base of operations, Starlab Barcelona, was established in 2000 and remains in operation.