BCG’s 2023 Most Innovative Companies report highlights the top 50 leading innovators, outperforming the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3% points per year. Among them, Apple, Tesla, and Amazon secure the top three spots, while European representation remains…
As the transportation industry increasingly prioritizes sustainability, solar panels on trucks are becoming a more interesting solution for truck fleets across Europe. IM Efficiency, an innovative tech scale-up at the Automotive Campus in the Dutch city of Helmond, recently succeeded…
Harvard University’s groundbreaking longitudinal happiness study, ongoing since 1938, reveals that social relationships play a more significant role in predicting long-term health and happiness than genetics, social class, or education. Led by Robert Waldinger, the study has grown to include…
Choices we make now affect the future. Every day. To make those choices well, we must learn from the past and to build the future. The future is not something that happens to fall from the sky but something we…
In the whirlwind of AI developments, the European Union is conspicuously absent. There is no European AI leader, and the continent is in a defensive position, trying to apply the brakes in a world that is advancing at lightning speed.…
Delft startup Loop Biotech – initiator and builder of a ‘living’ coffin that enriches the earth – has presented a more organic version of the Loop Living Cocoon. The startup is also launching the first fully biodegradable urn and cot. The first design…
Germany has slid into recession. Although the country is still held hostage by completely abstruse discussions about speed limits, nuclear power plant phase-outs and mandatory heat pumps, the economic policy of the green “light figure” Habeck is sinking further and…
It’s no secret that the Netherlands is a flourishing ecosystem for start-ups and scale-ups. Particularly the province of South Holland — with its business and tech hotspots in Rotterdam and Delft — is home to many innovative companies who seek…
Eindhoven is known for a thriving start-up climate. In the Brainport region, thousands of inventions are made and patents are filed every year. But even the region’s successful companies have down days. At a recent event organized by Digital Wednesday,…
There are more than three thousand regional airports in Europe. Whoever manages to connect them smartly and sustainably has a network within reach that is not only cheaper than what we are currently used to with freeways and rail connections…