Sales of electric cars are booming (worldwide, at least somewhat). In 2021, the German market became the absolute top market in Europe for battery-powered vehicles. At around 356,000 units, they sold 83 percent more electric cars last year than in…
After Mark Zuckerberg’s public announcement that Facebook is rebranding itself as Meta, the metaverse has once again become a buzzword. Various global investors across the entertainment, social media and gaming sectors all want to craft a metaverse in blockchain for…
Technicians Wolfgang Berger and Nikolaus Mayerhofer were both in the automotive industry when they decided to develop an independent battery test for so-called traction batteries in electric vehicles. It all started in the evenings and on weekends and eventually grew…
In the circular economy week, countless people, institutions and organizations are devoting a bit more attention to the society of the future in which we will reuse all raw materials and use natural resources only if this can be done…
The hospital of the future. The patient-centered hospital. Hospital 4.0 (whatever happened to hospital 3.0?). All kinds of terms for the same thing that everyone has an idea about, but which in practice hardly ever gets off the ground. Which…
When it comes to making the earth more sustainable, claims are being made all over the place. But what is true? Together with sustainability expert Auke Hoekstra, better known on Twitter as ‘Debunker-in-Chief‘, Innovation Origins sets out to find this…
Th Hungarian start-up Munch is on the mission to stop wasting food. The team has developed an app that allows you to buy leftovers from restaurants and bakeries at a low price. Customers can go and pick up perfectly good…
Faster, lighter, more durable, and ultimately also cheaper: the advantages of photonic circuits are considerable, for a wide range of applications. And the Netherlands plays an important global role in the development and application of this key technology. In recent…
When presenting investments for the plan, the Italian government pointed out how buildings are responsible for nearly half of the greenhouse gas emissions in Italy. According to the statistics presented by the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and…
The acquisition of the Dutch company MILabs by the Japanese company Rigaku last August did not lead to any major headlines. Yet it concerns one of the biggest successes for an academic start-up in the Netherlands in recent years. In…