When Luceda Photonics  was founded more than a decade ago, few in Belgium were talking about startups - let alone about design software for integrated photonics. Yet from the labs of Ghent University, VUB and Imec, six people from very different backgrounds decided to take the leap. Among them was Joris Geessels. He doesn’t describe himself as a born entrepreneur: “It happened a bit by accident. I was mainly looking for something technically interesting that could have real-w