Faster, lighter, more durable, and, at the end of the day, also much cheaper: the benefits of photonic circuits are considerable, for a wide range of applications. And the Netherlands plays an important role, globally, in the development and application…
A smart doorbell, a smart thermostat, or smart lighting. You see them more and more. Appliances that we can control from a distance or that even function autonomously. They are all examples of the ‘Internet of Things‘ (IoT). Sensors provide…
A colleague of mine recently wrote an article about reshoring. For many years, manufacturing processes that were ‘too expensive’ for the Netherlands were moved to low-wage countries. Two years of Covid and the recent political instability have led us to…
Suppose the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia do work out and peace soon returns to Europe. While Ukraine is destroyed and disarmed. Putin remains in office, with a few scuffles here and there on the borders of neighboring countries that…
Faster, lighter, more durable, and, at the end of the day, even cheaper: the advantages of photonic circuits are considerable, for a wide range of applications. The Netherlands plays an important role in the global development and applications of this…
When it comes to innovation in the spatial domain, you simply cannot overlook the mega-project of the Dutch Environment and Planning Act. Its enactment, originally scheduled for 2019, was recently postponed for the fourth time. One of the reasons for…
The Porto area in northern Portugal is home to many small agricultural farms. Tiago Sá and his three co-founders saw that small-scale farmers were often being shut out of the digital transition. They wanted to do something about that, consequently,…
European batteries must become the best in the world. Nothing more and nothing less than that is the ambition behind the new standards for producing and recycling batteries the European Union member states have agreed on today. Before the proposal…
With a neoliberal economic approach, the government steps in when the market fails and public interests are at stake. The underlying hypothesis is that smart, innovative market players perform better than clueless bureaucratic governments. Imagine being a civil servant! Fortunately…
Chantal Linders, founder of GreenHabit, spoke in the first instalment of this two-parter about how she finds that the bar is set too high when it comes to start-ups gaining access to hospitals. Dries Steinmeijer, Business Development and Funding at…