Dutch bluetooth inventor is included in Hall of Fame

Jaap Haartsen will get a spot in the Us National Inventors Hall of Fame, in which major inventors included. He developed the technology for communication over short distances when he was employed by Ericsson.

That reports The Volkskrant, which Haartsen has spoken. The National Inventors Hall of Fame, which many of the important inventors are included, plans to bluetooth creator to record during a meeting on may 12 in Washington, DC. The Dutchman is known as the inventor of the communication technology: the patent on his name, has already picked his employer Ericsson there the fruits of. He developed bluetooth after a request from his bosses to make something allowing devices in close proximity can communicate.

In an interview with The Volkskrant speaks Haartsen, in addition to his election, also on the Dutch innovation climate. He states that he has an invention such as bluetooth never for each other would have received in the Netherlands: according to Haartsen, no one is prepared to take risks that are necessary in order for such a project to get off the ground. Also complains about the award of grants: according to Haartsen we were there looking for content and too much to someone or a nice story.

Currently working Haartsen not more for Ericsson. He is currently in Emmen for Plantronics, a company that deals with the development of communication equipment. Tweakers previously made a portrait of Haartsen, in the series Polderpioniers.