In Germany this summer, you can travel on regional public transport for 9 euros per month. Innovation Origins is seizing this opportunity to visit a number of future-proof projects. In this edition, we travel from Cottbus to Bitterfeld-Wolfen. A gigantic…
You are probably already familiar with them, those real nerds who like nothing better than to work with technology. A bit of mechatronics here, a pinch of AI there and then topped off with a nice data platform that the…
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.…
In the recently finalized ‘Vitale Binnensteden’ (‘Vital Inner Cities’) City Deal, the Dutch cities of Utrecht, Rotterdam, Groningen, Eindhoven, The Hague and Amsterdam (aka URGEDA) and nicknamed the G6, are experimenting together with the Dutch government on how to future-proof…
The RepTrak Company investigates the reputation of companies in over sixty countries. In the Netherlands there are four companies from the Brainport region in the top six. In this series we ask Philips (1), ASML (2) and VDL (6) where…
The lack of a convenient program where he could put all his notes and patient information – which he could also share with his patients – was what motivated plastic surgeon David Krijgh to found SurgAccord. He and his team…
Geopolitics is a subject as sensitive as it is dynamic; we can see it in the news every day. An alliance that seemed ideal yesterday may already be completely undesirable tomorrow. How do we keep things in balance as a…
Recently, car sharing companies Amber and MyWheels merged. Their umbrella company, the Sharing Group, is now the largest provider of shared cars in the Netherlands. Together, the companies form “the mobility system of the future”, according to the CEO of…
Climate change is an imminent problem that we are all facing today. Greenhouse gas emissions are produced daily due to the high consumption of fossil fuels. Renewable energy is one of the ways to reduce the use of fossil fuels…
In Amsterdam New West, a lot of hard work is being done to gradually make way for central heating boilers and natural gas to replace thermal heating from the Sloterplas lake and the installation of solar panels. That is quite…