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…
Guus Bruijsten, the founder of 51Hz, promises to give people insight into their cognitive fitness in just five minutes. Following years and years of taking measurements, the company has been in business since 2020. At home in his Nijmegen city…
Computers, machines, artificial networks that can produce a higher quality than growers, and this is just the beginning. “A real difference was made last year,” says Peter Korsten from Villa Flora at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo, where he’s one of…
Not that it will add to the charging capacity of electric cars. But the concept of the quantum battery presented earlier this month can justifiably be called a breakthrough. The principle behind it is the superposition of two energy levels.…
It is predicted that there will be a global water shortage as early as 2030 due to climate change. A short-term solution that delivers immediate results is provided by Bulgaria’s Develiot. CEO and co-founder Miroslav Gechev explains how. What exactly…
You can call him Frans. Or else ‘Boss’, as many of his thousands and thousands of co-workers do. He plays a strategic game with the Polish government over tough issues, but above all, he is the tsar of European climate…
The idea for Micro-Cosmos arose a few years ago during the health hackathon at RadboudMC Hospital in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Right now, before the official launch, Micro-Cosmos’s idea is already being tested in several hospitals. Innovation Origins interviewed co-founder Eef…
Whether it is for a surgical procedure or for post-operative care, medical technology is being used more and more in hospitals. Groningen-based Polyganics is also helping healthcare a step forward. The soluble brain plaster that the company brought onto the…
In this column on the future of mobility, we’ve talked about electric flying before. I mentioned the initiatives for building two-, nine- and nineteen-seaters powered by batteries. Although there are still uncertainties, there are quite a few start-ups and larger…
With a novel approach, a textile architect wants to revolutionize the traditional supply chain, making 2D cuts, scissors and thread and needle obsolete. The material develops its own cutting technique, so to speak, and transforms from 2D to 3D. There…