Batteries are playing an important key role in the transition to a sustainable future. In the Dutch province of Twente, knowledge institutions and the business community are taking battery technology to the next level. Mark Huijben, a professor at the…
The Dutch start-up Reducept has been around for a few years now. Together, founders Margryt Fennema and Louis Zantema developed the Reducept Method. This combines scientific insights about pain education, psychology with digital therapy. It is a complex, non-invasive treatment…
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 global issue of food waste is in urgent need of a solution. A Dutch start-up developed an image recognition system dubbed Orbisk. It automatically recognizes what kind of food is thrown away, how much, and at what time of…
There are plenty of smart, up-and-coming entrepreneurs in the Netherlands with fresh, innovative ideas for making manufacturing chemistry more sustainable. Setting up a start-up and progressing from start-up to scale-up is usually not a problem. But taking the next step,…
More and more, high-tech systems companies are having to deal with the digitalization of their products and their ever-growing complexity. The recently signed agreement, making Capgemini Engineering the first implementation partner of ESI (TNO), should help companies in this sector…
“It’s only a couple of weeks away,” says Frithjof Engelke. “Then we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary.” At the oil dealer’s modest office in Berlin’s Tempelhof, it becomes immediately clear that Engelke is a man from the shop floor.…
We hardly ever write about games, except when, for example, gamification makes its appearance somewhere. In fact, as an unwritten rule at Innovation Origins, we once came up with the idea that we would write about all kinds of technology – except…
Primeval children liked to run the fastest way back to the safe cave. They learned to use tools to make fire and an axe to prepare food. All of that falls under the term “technology,” and has been a part…
The Netherlands – the new European continental Omicron hotspot – was not prepared for so many new cases. While the hospitals could cope with the pressure of the serious health problems and the ICUs, things were different at the Dutch…