The Netherlands Enabling Water Technology (NEW), a Dutch consortium made up of Wetsus, the University of Groningen, Deltares and Investment and Development Company North Netherlands (NOM), is to receive €8 million from the Dutch government for the dessemination of knowledge…
A team of students at Imperial College London has developed a top mattress that warns if a patient has been lying in one position for too long and is as such at risk of developing pressure ulcers and skin contusions.…
Step by step we are heading for a situation in which we can live, work and move in a CO2-neutral manner. But how do you make the leap from such a fairly abstract goal to a concrete implementation? That is…
Sweden’s Chalmers University made headlines last week with a breakthrough with their development of the ‘structural battery.’ This heralds a potential future for lightweight electronics, but also allows cars and airplanes, for example, to be made significantly lighter ( the…
A post on LinkedIn led to a video call between the Dutch embassy in Japan and the founders of Female Tech Heroes Ingelou Stol and Hilde de Vocht. This sparked enthusiasm among both parties for a webinar focusing on more…
If there is one thing that the last crisis showed us, it is that investing in research and innovation pays off in the long run. In the years following the financial crisis, the Netherlands experienced economic difficulties, while Germany underwent…
I come across them quite often: people who think that China is only good at plagiarizing anything and everything. In the land of continual copies, IP doesn’t seem to stand for Intellectual Property, but for Interesting Possibilities instead. Nevertheless, that…
This year, there will be no World Solar Challenge for the Dutch Solar Team Eindhoven. Not just because the annual race in Australia is cancelled due to the coronavirus. But because the students are also taking a different approach. Unlike…
Move over couriers, drone delivery is here. The Ireland-based start-up, Manna, will now be using their delivery drones to bring Samsung mobile phones and tablets to residents in the town of Oranmore, Ireland, in as little as three minutes. Based…
A digital platform that links supply and demand – how original is that? Isn’t that also a bit of a tired business model? The ‘moving platform’ Brenger nevertheless seems to have successfully found a specific niche where this business model…