Believe it or not, your personal financial choices impact the environment. If a person suddenly became vegan, how much of a difference would it make on their carbon footprint? That is the mission of the Berlin start-up ecolytiq, which provides…
Neurocomputer scientist Wolfgang Maass has been conducting research at the Institute for the Foundations of Information Processing at Graz University of Technology in Austria for 20 years, where he is pursuing a conceptual framework and algorithmic methods for a brain…
The Dutch government wants to raise groundwater levels, to prevent dehydration and oxidation of peatland. That is a good plan. Marshiness is the natural state of our country, good for biodiversity and CO2 reduction. The recent water shortages are a.o.…
The world is in a constant state of change. In order to create that change, designers are needed. Change is at the heart of design. Whereas most people think of design as primarily an aesthetic endeavor, design is actually a…
Especially in a breeding ground for innovative technology like the Brainport region, plenty of people walk around with groundbreaking ideas. “Coming up with a great idea, however, is one thing, but turning what’s in your head into a tangible and marketable concept is something else,”…
Creative sessions, when properly guided, are made up of two main parts. Diverging: coming up with ideas. Converging: choosing ideas. We see the act of diverging as the ‘creative’ part of a session. We practice creative thinking. Coaches use techniques…
When the layout of your favorite store changes all of a sudden, have you ever wondered what motivated that change? Start-up AssetFloow, from Lisbon, Portugal, uses artificial intelligence to analyze customer behavior and provides insights that help those changes to…
Founders Hans-Peter Pichler and Patrick Haidinger both have cases of epilepsy in their environment. Both are AI enthusiasts and serial entrepreneurs, so it was only a matter of time before they decided to improve the lives of these people. In…
An autonomous drone as eyes in a greenhouse – a drone that measures the way crops are growing. From seed germination to leaf development and from the flowering stage to the diameter of the potted plant. That is what start-up…
Catching up with the United States and China in making innovation happen, is not something that will happen by copying them. The European Innovation Council – EIC – instead prefers to do it ‘the European way.’ “A lot of opportunities…