Based at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the British-Dutch startup Deep Branch appears to be on its way to becoming a real game-changer. In short: it’s capable of capturing CO2 gas from factories, for example, and converting it to…
Apple co-founder Steven Jobs was known for his ability to captivate people. The familiar phrase “reality distortion field” often made the rounds. The “RDS” was meant to illustrate Jobs’ overwhelming sales and persuasion skills. Anyone caught in the “field” would…
The tenth episode of the Innovation Origins heat island series focuses – for the second time – on the capital’s city heat stress. The first part already covered the city districts of Centrum, South, and West. This time we zoom…
The use-by date on drinks containers and pre-packaged foodstuffs, among other things, is still printed with ink. This has many disadvantages. Ink is actually an environmental pollutant, ink printers are maintenance-sensitive and ink is also expensive. InPhocal has found a…
More and more Dutch people are arranging their energy supply locally. But if soon thirty percent of power will be generated locally, who will ensure that we are all still guaranteed energy at the national level? From centralized to decentralized…
European climate policy seeks to prevent the generation of harmful greenhouse gases to a large extent. Where this is not possible, technical solutions are required. These are known as Carbon Capture and Utilization and stand for the conversion of harmful…
Anyone thinking about the energy transition soon associates that with electricity and hydrogen. But Renewable Iron Fuel Technology (RIFT), which sprang from the SOLID student team at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, is convinced that iron fuel is…
Everyone these days is conscious about living as sustainably as possible, but even after death, there are plenty of opportunities to reduce your ecological footprint. Indeed, in the funeral industry, great strides have been made in recent years in terms…
Postoperative complications from heart surgery are the reason for 250 deaths worldwide every day. Residual blood and clots in the pericardial cavity cause complications – such as tamponade – which need a second operation to be dealt with. A simple…
The jury of the Gerard and Anton Awards 2022 was very impressed with start-up Pharmi. They described the goals as ambitious and soundly underpinned. For founder Claudia Rijcken, however, the winning of the award came as a surprise. “We saw…