“It’s just a real pleasure every time,” says Robert-Jan Smits, president of the Executive Board of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is referring to the students who pitch their ideas, prototypes and projects during a competition like the…
A 40,000-kilometer journey driven with a regular, electric car. A lot of people will shudder at the mere thought of it. Let alone ever embarking on such a trip themselves. But Renske Cox and Maarten van Pel from the Dutch…
These are turbulent times. Crisis after crisis. Not only is there a great deal of geopolitical unrest in the world, we are also in the middle of the fourth industrial revolution. The latter is typified as an era of disruptive…
In my last column, I highlighted how our universities need to prepare for radical changes (‘system disruptions’) in the next decade. Systemic disruptions have already been seen in a lot of other sectors. They occur when new competitors are launched…
Animal agriculture is responsible for 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and 80 percent of global land use. Mushrooms are nutrient-rich and could replace at least some meat consumption. Farmers and entrepreneurs who would like to grow mushrooms already…
In the near future, drones will fly over the spaces we live in-while fulfilling different tasks. As the number of aircraft – including flying taxis – is expected to increase in the next years, safety standards must improve too. A…
The introduction of new technologies carries risks. The same holds true for batteries. Take, for example, the enormous Tesla battery weighing 13 tons that caught fire during a test in Australia. Or the huge fire on the Felicity Ace cargo…
A checking account at the Rabobank, a business account at Bunq, an investment account and a crypto account. It is becoming more and more normal to use a variety of financial products with different financial service providers. “We want people…
Who hasn’t experienced this before? While you take a short break from studying or working, you grab your phone for a bit of brief entertainment. You start scrolling on Tiktok or Instagram and before you know it, half an hour…
Kennispark Twente is the first science park in the Netherlands to undergo a major overhaul. A total of a hundred million euros in public and private investment will be made over the next few years so that the latest innovations…