In addition to raw materials for adhesives, coatings, and healthy food, can a potato also provide ingredients against the effects of infection with the coronavirus? To investigate this, the Dutch provinces of Drenthe, Friesland, and Groningen have decided to support…
Although the coronavirus is still spreading worldwide at breakneck speed, news headlines are becoming more varied and more optimistic. Since Monday, New Zealand has become the first non-microstate on earth to be officially declared corona-free, after the very last patient…
When Frits van Hout, a member of ASML’s Executive Board, looks out of the window on the 17th floor of his Veldhoven office, he can easily identify a large part of ASML’s supply chain. But what is also striking is…
In human history, our travel habits have changed enormously. I think that we are on the cusp of a new breakthrough. COVID-19, our awareness of climate change and a range of technological developments will take telepresence to a whole new…
Afi is a monitor that detects cardiac arrhythmias in a simple and non-intrusive way. It can save the lives of thousands of people each year. Millions of people around the world have arrhythmias without being aware of it. They are…
June is already in full swing. However, at IO we’re taking a look back at May again. After all, we still owe you a Start-up of the Month! Each day, our journalists cover a cool European start-up story. Our editorial…
This week, some seemingly unrelated things came together. Let me begin with Lightyear. The biggest change we have seen within Lightyear resulting from the COVID-19 situation has been a strong decline in online job applications. Especially during the month of…
In the weekly ‘follow-up’ section we present a sequel to last week’s best-read article here on Innovation Origins. It had been in the works for a while, but this week was the first week that people are legally required to…
In the weekly ‘follow-up’ section we present a sequel to last week’s best-read article here on Innovation Origins. It had been in the works for a while, but this week was the first week that people are legally required to…
Frank van Harmelen is a professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Amsterdam and director of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. We talked to him about the latest developments in the field…