Should you get solar panels or not? Electric cars for everyone? Or what about wind energy? What do you choose in order to make a university campus, business park or residential area more sustainable? What are the knock-on effects of…
The biggest critic of technology in the Dutch House of Representatives, Kees Verhoeven, will not be returning to parliament after the elections. After more than ten years, he thinks it’s time to call it a day. What has changed in…
Statistics published today by the European Patent Office (EPO) show that innovation in healthcare drove patenting activity in 2020: Medical technology was the leading field for inventions in terms of volume, while pharmaceuticals and biotechnology were the fastest-growing areas. Despite…
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the Catharina Hospital in the Netherlands are using artificial intelligence to develop a smart camera that will continuously monitor patients. The camera is aimed at e.g. patients who have just had surgery…
In the sixteen years that founder Casper Bruens has been active for Brightlands Venture Partners, he has seen the world around him change dramatically. And that naturally meant that the funds’ activities had to move with those developments. Founded by…
In every business, there are many processes of activities that come together to make it function properly. Some are respected repetitive processes while others require constant creativity. Automation is usually done for the repeated activity to increase speed and efficiency.…
A group of researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) think there is still a future for the combustion engine. The secret lies in the noble gas argon in combination with green hydrogen. With the Argon Power Cycle (APC), the…
Armin Elbers, epidemiologist at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) in the Netherlands and project leader of the research into the lasers, is self-effacing and says he has just worked on a small piece of the puzzle. In addition to that research,…
This year will see the start of the 3 rd edition of the ‘Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge’. The challenge is to grow lettuce in a greenhouse ‘completely autonomously and without human intervention’ through the use of AI. The lettuce also needs…
How we judge leaders is changing. Although it sometimes seems as if we are lowering the bar, we won’t be doing that in the future. I often go to my sports class with a t-shirt that says ‘Don’t make stupid…