In front of the entrance to Mosa Meat at a business park in the Dutch city of Maastricht, employees are enjoying their lunch together, most of whom are young academics with a master’s degree or PhD. There are 65 people…
All too often, a visit to the gynecologist is an unpleasant experience. Omgyno is working with patients to change that. Founder Doreen Toutikian talks to us about it. What exactly does Omgyno do? “Omgyno (pronunced: ‘Oh my gyno’) is an…
The biopharmaceutical company Xenikos based in the Dutch city of Nijmegen is working on a drug that can reset the immune system and thus save the lives of seriously ill patients. The moment of truth for T-Guard, after twenty years…
Apart from the sun and the wind, tidal currents can play an important role in the transition to a sustainable future. SeaQurrent’s underwater kite, or ‘Tidalkite’, harnesses energy from the currents in the Wadden Sea caused by the difference between…
Innovation is not all about technology. The cities of tomorrow need to implement social innovation too. The European Commission is insisting on this aspect, as were the words of commissioner Mariya Gabriel during the prize-giving ceremony of the European Capital…
If it were up to the municipality of Utrecht, by 2040 the city would have not one, but five urban cores. With these new cores, residents will only need to spend ten minutes cycling, walking or using public transport to…
Black Bear Carbon sees value in discarded car tires. The start-up is going to build a factory at the Chemelot chemical complex in Limburg, The Netherlands, to recover the carbon black raw material from tires. “Of all the carbon black…
Last Wednesday, it was announced that the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum is to receive the Spinozalens 2022. The Spinozalens is an award for an international thinker who has done pioneering work on the relationship between ethics and society. Nussbaum is…
Rotterdam is in 30th place worldwide in terms of the most attractive cities for start-ups. At least, if you are to believe British Money – a comparison site for financial products. The comparison site looked at such things as opportunities…
New coalition agreements are like lottery tickets. You open the ticket with shaky fingers, unfold the contents and usually draw a blank. Sometimes you get a “consolation prize” and very rarely do you really win. The new traffic light coalition…