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.…
Agilytic is a start-up from Terhulpen, Belgium that helps companies analyze all kinds of in order to make better policy decisions. Julien Theys, Managing Partner at Agilytic and visiting professor in Digital Entrepreneurship at Solvay Brussels School of Economics &…
You probably never think about it, but under our feet in the Netherlands, there are approximately 117,000 kilometers of water pipelines. These pipelines enable you to take a shower, get a glass of water from the tap or flush the…
Less radiation yet sharper X-ray images. This can be achieved with a special, large CMOS sensor. Equipment with these sensors is becoming increasingly common in the treatment rooms of dentists and hospitals. We are all used to dental x-rays whereby…
It was proven once again this week: in the Netherlands, as the Dutch saying goes: ‘De koopman wint het altijd van de dominee,‘ i.e., the merchant always wins out over the minister. The inept defense of the the Minister of Foreign Affairs…
‘Design thinking alone is not going to help you get a good product onto the market’. It was a statement on LinkedIn that received a lot of support. I wondered what people based this judgment on. My suspicions were proved…
Skills instead of diplomas and CVs? The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) research report entitled ‘Het skillspaspoort mogelijke-oplossing voor vrij reizen over de arbeidsmarkt‘ (The skills passport possible-solution for free travel across the labor market) outlines the need…
Nowadays, you cannot sit down at a management table or you will hear the question “What would Google do if they were us?” When I was preparing to give the opening keynote speech for the global Inchainge Connect Educator Conference,…
Managing lighting in an environment such as a greenhouse – where thousands of lamps are connected simultaneously – is key to growing high-quality produce. Cosmicnode developed an end-to-end solution for connected lighting that allows growers to adjust and control lights…
“We cannot replace our dependence on Russian gas with a reliance on China for solar energy production.” Speaking is the European Commission official in charge of Europe’s energy-intensive industry. The man, Joaquim Nunes de Almeida, is working overtime these months.…