There are fortune tellers, and there are scientists; every right-thinking person knows that those are separate worlds. But what if science turns out to have predictive values? Then the distinction becomes more difficult to make, Albert Jan also observed when…
Not long ago, late summer was the season of Nobel prizes, when universities held their breath and waited for the Nobel Prize Committee to reward science. Nowadays, late summer is ‘ranking season’, and universities are much more interested in what…
Shipping is not the cleanest form of transportation. Fortunately, more and more maritime batteries are emerging, thus enabling the sector to become electrified. You see them mainly on ‘work boats’, i.e.: tugboats and crane barges. But more and more canal…
After oil, the fashion industry is the most polluting industry in the world. It takes 2,700 liters of water to produce a single T-shirt. That amount of water is enough to provide one person with drinking water for 2,5 years.…
More than fifty NemoRemote systems are now in operation across Denmark. By means of an innovative patch and a tablet, both the unborn child and the mother can be monitored at home throughout the pregnancy. Innovation Origins spoke with CEO…
Margaritis Schinas, one of the many vice presidents of the European Commission, holds his phone above his head behind the podium in the press room. Something is bothering the 60-year-old Greek. “Everything on the outside of my phone is regulated and…
Dutch neurofeedback startup Alphabeats has closed a €1.5 million seed investment round, led by DeepTechXL and backed by LUMO Labs. It is the first investment round of the deeptech investment fund established earlier this year. This investment will allow Alphabeats to…
‘Is the course of treatment I’m following working? How is that vaccine going to affect my immune system?’ ImmuneWatch has an answer to these and many more questions about what they do. The spin-off from the University of Antwerp and…
That ants communicate with each other is well known. But exactly how that works had not yet been researched. Nigel Franks decided to look for an answer. “Ants are just marvelous to work with. If you work hard, they yield…
In 2020, Philipp Baumann and Fitim Mehmeti received a request from a construction company looking for software to efficiently manage employee skills and certifications. No problem for the two. They developed a version that gave an overview of who in…