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…
How many pieces of clothing do you have in your wardrobe that you no longer wear? An older study showed that the Dutch have an average of 173 items of clothing, 50 of which are never worn. Each year, we…
Climate change, the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine – the current crises have made it clear that our global food system is complex and vulnerable. A recent report on the global food crisis revealed an “alarming deterioration…
Minced meat for your bolognese sauce made from sawdust, wood residue and forest undergrowth. At NoA Biosciences, they aim to solve problems in the food chain by turning wood biomass into food. Not as an ingredient, but a complete finished…
Back in May 2018, the Slovenian government published its roadmap for becoming the world’s first fully circular economy. The plan is part of the long-term national strategy Vision for Slovenia in 2050. The country aims to become a frontrunner both…
Bruised apples, carrot scraps and, in the future, maybe even mushrooms and bean sprouts: these are some of the random ingredients they use in their cakes at the catering company Trash’ure Taarten in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. Everything is…
‘I love waste,’ laughs Isabel Cañete Vela while explaining how the technology behind thermo-chemical recycling works. She is a Ph.D. student at the Chalmers University of Technology. Together with a team of scientists, they have developed a way to turn…
The cuttlefish, a sea creature that also lives just off the Dutch coast, may help enable robots to pick up fragile objects very carefully in the future. For example, organs or tissue during an operation carried out by a robot.…
The growing risk of cyber attacks has left companies big and small seeking out new ways to protect themselves and the data of customers. With bolder attacks and big ransom amounts being demanded by hackers, solving the problem now appears…
A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up €723.8 billion in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona.…