In our weekly recap on Sunday, we, as editors, look back at the past seven days. We do this at the suggestion of our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, makes a drawing, and we take it from there. If you…
As Novel-T’s CEO and imec.istart’s program director, Jaap Beernink and Sven de Cleyn can share some of the experiences of the first year of the imec.istart.nl accelerator. In short: much has been achieved, but much more is still to come,…
The competitiveness of football nowadays obligates teams to invest in data analytics to reach better performances. The Bulgarian start-up Ubitrack provides a complete data set for clubs to analyze all different aspects of a match, utilizing artificial intelligence technology. Ubitrack’s…
The new istart.nl Seed Fund aims to invest in sixty to seventy Dutch technology startups with an average investment ticket of between €100,000 and €250,000 over the next ten years. The new fund grew from the accelerator that imec.istart and…
As seen again this summer in the Mediterranean region, firefighting aircraft or helicopters are the only means fire departments have of dealing with major forest fires. Aircraft can quickly throw large quantities of water onto even hard-to-reach fires. The German…
Germany wants to ramp up the number of charging stations for E-cars from 70,000 today to 1 million by 2030. To achieve this, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport announced its “Masterplan Ladeinfrastruktur II” yesterday. The plan should accomplish…
It started with a couple of hobbyists from Berlin who were crazy about drones. They saw how construction workers were fitting and measuring everything out when installing solar panels and renovating roofs. “There must be a way to do that…
As soon as a period of warm weather or a heat wave sets in, journalists will hop on the phone to Sanda Lenzholzer, professor of landscape architecture at Wageningen University & Research and management team member of 4TU.Built Environment. “I…
Memes are very popular among young people. This often involves a joke posted on the internet in the form of an image or a video. Yet such forms of expression do not always have to be images. They can also…
Denmark and the Netherlands had plans for it. But it is the Belgians who are grabbing the scoop by building the world’s first artificial energy island. An island like this does have its drawbacks, according to RenĂ© Peters of the…