There is just under a week to go until the German elections are held on 26 September. The Social Democratic Party (SDP) is ahead of the CDU/CSU by a few percent in the polls, the Greens seem to have been…
Only 12 percent of business premises that have a surface area larger than 1000 square meters have solar panels on their roofs. In The Netherlands, this amounts to more than 140,000 premises, which translates into approximately 38,000 hectares of roof…
We perceive our time as a period brimming with innovation, but this sentiment is not a prerogative of 21st-century humankind. Whoever is of advanced age today has witnessed the spread and popularization of the passenger car, radio, television, cell phone…
With the introduction of the Van, the young company Arrival is taking on the competition against existing manufacturers of commercial vehicles. Last week the Beta Van – an electric van – made its first appearance in Europe. Over the next…
Last week, U.S.-based Footprint announced its plans for a European R&D center at Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In this interview with founder Troy Swope, we look into the origins of his company, as well as the…
In my previous column, I wrote about the Bullet Journal method. What’s interesting about this method is the different perspective it has compared To Do lists: no endless lists, where more is added than can ever be crossed off, but…
At first glance, it seems as if Venice is lagging behind on the ecological path to a sustainable society. If you stand on the world-famous Rialto Bridge, for example, you can hear the endless chugging of diesel engines of the…
The Dutch government has great ambitions for hydrogen. The National Hydrogen Program demonstrates that the government wants to go all-out for hydrogen as the energy system of the future. But how is our hydrogen society and economy faring? In the…
Shortwave infrared vision chips can see through rain, fog, or haze. Aviation security and autonomous vehicles sectors have already implemented them in their systems. However, this technology could come in handy in many other daily applications, but the high costs…
Eindhoven-based scale-up Sendcloud has raised 150 million euros in a so-called Series C funding round, which is aimed at the further growth of companies. The round was led by Softbank, a Japanese company. Since 2012, Sendcloud has been taking the…