If physicians and bioscientists want to take a detailed look inside our bodies, they can use a variety of imaging technologies. For starters, they can find out how big our liver is, whether it changes when we take medication, and…
Together with the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden, Germany) and the Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), the Berlin-based start-up Xolo has designed a new kind of ‘volumetric’ 3D printer. The ‘Xube’ prints an object not layer by layer…
As the director of Health at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the figurehead of the Top Sector Lifescience & Health, Carmen van Vilsteren is a driving force in the field of innovation. She brings researchers and industry together…
The picking robot that is set to replace the (nowadays scarce) Eastern European greenhouse workers seems to be almost here. The family-owned company VDL (Van der Leegte Groep) from the Dutch province of Brabant is working towards a market launch…
Scientists from Finland and Israel have found a way to enable nano-scaled hinges to move. This marks the next step in the development of what are known as molecular machines. This will ultimately make it possible to develop new therapeutic…
If this story had been the Top 2000 of Innovation Origins, the entire top 20 would have been filled with one topic: Corona. In particular, the stories from our data analyst Jelmer Visser, who was the first to compare corona…
A photo of an overcrowded departure hall at the Charleroi airport in Belgium led to collective outrage this week. At a time when we all have to stay in our ‘huts’ because of the coronavirus, a lot of people are…
Ambulancezorg Nederland (AZN, the ambulance umbrella organisation of Dutch ambulance services) is workings together with Be-Mobile to clear the roads for ambulances. Be-Mobile is building the C-ITS platform for AZN. This new platform enables smart traffic lights to give the…
The climate is changing and we are all going to notice the consequences, all over the world. There are plenty of plans to prepare for this or even to reverse the process. But as an alderman for a medium-sized city…
Sometimes you do not need a crystal ball to be able to foresee the future, because there are already a few precursors that can accurately sketch out what this will look like. Such a forerunner is the company Niaga based…