Despite a light marine breeze, the airspace over Valkenburg’s former naval airbase is buzzing with drones. As soon as the aircrafts reach the landing strip, seagulls fly over squawking loudly. Next to the flight area, a Douglas C-47B – a…
The start-up ImmoPass is the first independent Belgian organization dedicated to the technical inspection of real estate. ImmoPass is based in Brussels and the team is made up of five employees, including the three founders. It is a technical audit…
That technical knowledge helps a tech company to advance is not in dispute. But social skills are also essential. How do these ‘soft skills’, which are genuine power skills, contribute to the successful development of a company? “Technology is the…
A few mugs of beer undoubtedly went around at Prague City Hall in March following the Czech transport ministry’s decision not to obstruct an extension of the metro. It means that the construction of metro line D, which connects the…
A lot of companies collect large amounts of data and only afterwards wonder whether they are actually allowed to use it. How can you, as a company, continue to innovate with the help of data and respect the privacy of…
Rising above the noise of two large machines is the voice of Christiaan Rood of LeydenJar, who explains: “Our technology produces batteries with 70 percent more capacity. We use silicon, which can store up to 10 times more ions than…
As a result of prolonged droughts and rising sea levels, the Netherlands is becoming more and more affected by salt water in the soil. But are today’s food crops actually resistant to this? In the EU project Saline Farming (SalFar),…
Medicines roll off the production line in their millions – usually in two or three standard dosages. But a five-year-old child needs very different quantities of an active ingredient than an adult man who stands six feet tall. “Let’s say…
Overfishing is a huge problem in the seafood industry, but researchers might have found a solution. What if the fish could be produced sustainably through bioreactors? Wanda Fish Technologies seeks to do exactly this. The newly started Israeli company promises…
How can we keep our gas consumption as low as possible? This is a question that has preoccupied the Netherlands since the start of the war in Ukraine. Besides the obvious ways, such as insulating homes, there are also innovative,…