For the past years, we used this space to look ahead to the future of mobility. We would have thought we’d be done talking after a year. But mobility is in tremendous flux with rapidly changing cars, rising travel appetites,…
Many aging concrete bridges in Europe and the U.S. could become safety hazards in the coming years. This is because the majority of road and rail bridges were built within 30 years after WWII and are now at least 40…
🛣️There has much buzz in the press in the last several months about U.S. President Biden’s infrastructure plan, but in Europe the infrastructure is also in need of renewal. Why now all of the sudden? It’s no coincidence that the…
The Swedish start-up Little Snooze was in the top five of Sweden’s twenty best business ideas. Their idea? A sound-absorbing and noise-blocking children’s hat. It sounds like a simple concept, but it is only this summer that these sleeping hats…
Do you remember? When cordless electronics could only be used for flashlights, walkie-talkies, and some military equipment? When batteries used to be bulky, heavy, and would always end up in a landfill when empty? Battery technology is in flux –…
Few people speak the language of tech, yet many work in it. Basic technological knowledge is much needed and essential to understanding the mechanisms of engineering and manufacturing processes if you are servicing these companies. As an outsider to the…
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.…
The time has come at long last: The Netherlands is the last country to bid for money from the European Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Today, Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Finance, sent a first draft of the Dutch Recovery and…
The Belgian start-up and data robot pioneer Teroco was founded in 2017 by Johan Van den Bulck and Pascal Kemps. They’re mainly active in the field of so-called robotic process automation (RPA) and built and managed one of the largest…
Markus Söder, the prime minister of Bavaria, is not exactly known for his modesty. So there was initially a certain amount of chuckling over his announcement in 2018 that Bavaria was working on a space center of international stature. Some…