“The creative process of innovation.” What does a sentence like this say? What is the creative process? Genuinely interested, I quizzed people I heard talking about it. It implies a sort of certainty about creativity that I lack myself and…
It is raining investments down on Dutch start-ups and scale-ups. In the first six months of 2021, that amounted to €3.1 billion worth in venture capital. More than what was raised in 2019 (€1.3 billion) and 2020 (€1.7 billion). This…
Khashayar Mansourizadeh dreams of replacing all complex systems with simple modules. “Why make things complicated when they can be simpler?” The Iranian wants to apply that idea to robotics. With his start-up Apeiron, he is working on a swarm of…
A year ago I received an unpleasant surprise. A person who I had written a manuscript with, had gone ahead and published that manuscript solo along with an earnings model and accompanying media promotion. My name had been deftly removed…
VIRTUe – a student team at the Technical University of Eindhoven – has developed ripple, a sustainable house model to reduce the carbon footprint and to create a new model for housing. Ripple uses sustainable materials and features shared facilities…
Simulating air quality data is a thing of the past thanks to the sensor developed by Delft-based start-up Respire. It measures the quality of the air anytime, anywhere and accurately. Akshit Gupta explains. What is Respire? “Simply put: It’s a…
Digitalization has a crucial role to play in order to achieve the transition to a fully circular manufacturing industry by 2050. For this purpose, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has developed a step-by-step plan for companies. Global…
This year, a time trial was held as part of the Tour de France in Laval southwest of Paris, the birthplace of Florian Jardin. The eventual winner Tadej Pogacar was the fastest there. Perhaps it would all have passed Florian…
“Europe is a global leader when it comes to the electrification of the transport sector, but only if the European proposals to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by the year 2030 are put into law.” So says Philippe Vangeel, secretary…
Auke sits down to talk. After previous debunks (on diesel and electric cars), today he takes us through an ‘economic monstrosity’ that has been bothering him for some time. The social cost of carbon, (SCC). The SCC spells out how…