Autonomous vehicles could significantly reduce accidents – at least in the future. However, serious accidents with physical injuries currently still occur with self-driving vehicles. According to experts, this has a clear cause: vehicles of different autonomy levels on the road…
It feels obvious: do everything you can to limit the growth of an emerging world power that is getting stronger economically, militarily, and politically. So speak disgracefully about its strategic goals, reject its domestic politics, impose trade restrictions, and take…
The European Innovation Fund awarded €92 million to Eavor Technologies to support constructing a geothermal project south of Munich. Eavor-Loop, an industrial-scale geothermal project, promises global energy security and autonomy. Though the Eavor-Loop technology is well-established globally, producing zero-emission heat…
The start. The idea. I have an idea. It’s not validated. I have absolutely no desire to check my assumptions since I will not be the entrepreneur for my idea. But I firmly believe that there is a market for…
In our Sunday newsletter, we, as editors, look back on the past seven days. We do this on the initiative of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He picks a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from there. It’s plain…
Cabot Corporation’s plans of global expansion, delivering innovative material for lithium-ion batteries in the EMEA region, kicked off with their announcement of establishing a new technology center in Munster, Germany. The state-of-the-art center will aim to implement technological advancement in…
A few weeks ago, a major German news outlet reported that the Chinese market for German electric vehicles was rather modest. Sales figures would be incredibly low, and Chinese buyers would be more interested in domestic products. Audi, Mercedes, Porsche…
One of the Netherlands’ greatest art treasures is on loan. The Girl with the Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer, is temporarily residing not at the Mauritshuis but at the Rijksmuseum because of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The Mauritshuis came…
With music subscription services like Spotify, music streaming has become one of the most important distribution channels in the music industry. The market is growing, and with it, the amount of data. A side effect is that the settlements with…
Gender equality is increasingly an important issue in the workplace. Yet things could be a lot better when it comes to the representation of women in business, especially in the entrepreneurial world. Only 10 percent of all founders in the…