Swedish company Hollbium is filling the empty walls of offices with a special hydroponic frame, called a Loop, in which vegetables can be grown. Hollbium is addressing the issues of climate change, pollution and food shortages. Co-founder Gloria Kraus speaks…
His limitless interest in science, data and technology led him to come up with innovations. And he may well now be holding the ‘Holy Grail of vascular surgery in his hands. Richard Lopata wants to see what’s happening to your…
Fish can learn to steer. That message and the accompanying video made it to the world press early this month. It involved an experiment in which researchers followed a pair of goldfish with a camera. The camera tracked their movement…
It is still a long way off in the future. But the Belgian start-up ‘Triple Helix Molecules as a Service‘ wants to build a factory on the old Opel site in Antwerp by 2024 to recycle polyurethane foam. The plant…
During the beginning of the corona crisis, the Dutch company Unitron pulled off a an incredible feat: within ten weeks, production of lung ventilators increased twenty-fold. And it isn’t stopping there. The company foresees continued growth. Unitron has branches in…
Researchers from the Dutch universities of Wageningen and Utrecht recently conducted a major modeling study into flood risks up to the year 2050 in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. These flood risks are due to rising sea levels in combination with soil…
The introduction of Omicron ushered in a new chapter of the pandemic with an entirely new set of rules of the game. A month and a half later, the pandemic playground does seem to have been completely overturned. Negatively? Not…
Can we use our (sustainably generated) energy for any purpose? The discussion about this flares up every now and then. According to many people, building wind turbines for the data centers of Facebook or Google is not OK. Where the data…
In a previous column for Innovation Origins, I wrote about how growers can keep their crops healthy by detecting potential infestations via smell. With the help of an e-nose, it is possible to detect the threat of an infestation before…
After a long career at a nationally operating engineering firm, Zeeland entrepreneur Wim Twigt founded Twigt-Om together with his daughter in 2016. Twigt-Om develops innovative concepts in the field of circular construction for companies and governments, including several recreational companies.…