When career TV journalist Cameron Price saw the broadcast news industry struggling, he launched a start-up to solve one of the industry’s biggest problems: lack of money. Together with co-founder Cheyne Wallace, a software engineer with experience working in Silicon…
Ex-elite handball player Tim Mullens (Geleen, 1982) is delighted with the headline. He can now work together with business developer Menno Smeelen to further roll out the innovative and sustainable ideas for the sports world. Mullens himself was captain of…
Gazing out over the Alps on a warm summer evening, philosophical thoughts start to surface. I feel like an artist without an art form, who nevertheless endeavors to give form to these thoughts through writing. When I write a column…
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…
If there is one thing people find difficult, it is making decisions. When you write choices down, they seem so simple, but in practice they tend to be more difficult to make. In everyday life, choices are influenced by the…
When buying second-hand items online, the chances of running into some kind of fraud are high. Not receiving the smartphone we bought, or not in the condition we had read it would be, are both likely. For example, you do…
Every year, a billion people worldwide take a trip. In general, we view discovering new destinations and learning about other cultures as enriching. But, the trips and the choices we make while traveling can have a detrimental impact on local…
How do you grow food in – or next to – a city without using soil? It’s exactly that question that Berlin-based start-up Lite+Fog is trying to answer. The company uses fog to grow plants more efficiently. In this episode…
The globally operating company Footprint decided last year to set up its European headquarters at Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will be led from…
What should be done with the excess gypsum that is produced as a by-product of processes in the chemical industry? People did not know what to do with it for a long time, but Finland has come up with a…