The Brainport region is an important growth engine of the Dutch economy. It is therefore very important, both for the region itself and for the country, to further strengthen this position. The fact that this not only increases the earning…
Thanks to the cooperation between truck manufacturers Daimler Truck AG, IVECO, and the Volvo Group, the hydrogen-powered truck can now really break through. Energy companies Shell and OMV are also working on this. The partnership believes that the large-scale introduction…
Since the Japanese scientist Hideo Kodama published the pioneering papers on “rapid prototyping” back in 1980, 3D printing has become commonplace and has found its way into many areas of life. Formula 1 teams, for one thing, use this technology…
Innovative companies and leading knowledge institutes in the Arnhem – Nijmegen and Wageningen region join forces around the themes of Food, Health, and Energy. Together they form ‘Lifeport‘, with which they want to grow into an important innovative region in…
My call on Twitter and Linkedin to submit topics for this column resulted in some nice reactions. Many questions about hydrogen, the development of batteries, also for use at home, the conversion of your car to an electric one, the…
It will be several years before all cars on German, European and international roads are powered by CO2-free engines. Even if no new cars with combustion engines are allowed to be sold from 2025 onwards, it can be reasonably assumed…
At a first glance, the city of Eindhoven may look a bit out of place among ‘rising global tech contenders’ like Detroit, Manchester, Bogota, and Cape Town. But that’s, indeed, just a first glance. “Eindhoven absolutely belongs to this list”,…
Iron as the new gold as far as energy sources go. Is that really feasible? In any event, this is the aim of Niels Deen, Professor of Power & Flow at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University…
Although older people are more likely to suffer a severe or even fatal case of COVID-19 than younger people, they too can become infected with the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus and end up fighting for their lives in intensive care units.…
If ever there has been an innovation of tremendous importance in 2020, then it is the development of the corona vaccine. To a large extent, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has set the agenda. Even in the world of science and innovation.…