If the Corona crisis makes something clear to us, it is that the solutions of the past no longer work for today’s problems. But in order to achieve those new solutions and create real innovations that benefit society, something has…
This week and last week, Innovation Origins is looking at the growing influence of wireless communication within today’s society and in particular at data transmission via electromagnetic with ever-higher frequencies, such as 5G. The Eindhoven-based Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) is…
Industry, and manufacturing factories, in particular, use a tremendous amount of electricity, much of which comes from fossil fuels. One reason for this is that factories are operated on alternating current (AC). Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Manufacturing Engineering…
Each year, around three million animals suffer and die in research laboratories worldwide. According to figures from the German Animal Welfare Federation, a total of 2,825,066 vertebrates and cephalopods (octopuses and squid) were ‘used’ for scientific purposes in 2018. Of…
For the twelfth consecutive month Innovation Origins portrayed five Start-ups each week. That’s 260 start-ups in one year! Because true innovation cannot be slowed down by the corona crisis, we once again chose four week winners and it is now…
This week and last week, Innovation Origins is looking at the growing influence of wireless communication within today’s society and in particular at data transmission via electromagnetic with ever-higher frequencies, such as 5G. There are few companies with such a…
UPDATE FROM THE EDITORS: We would like to inform our readers that the studies mentioned in the following text have been withdrawn at the request of the authors, Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of Zurich University…
UPDATE FROM THE EDITORS: We would like to inform our readers that the studies mentioned in the following text have been withdrawn at the request of the authors, Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of Zurich University…
Valencia-based Zeleros Hyperloop has completed a financing round worth more than €7 million. With this investment, the company starts a new phase in the development of its version of hyperloop, a train-like means of transport for long-distance routes for passenger…
Unus Terra, a serious game against COVID-19 that stimulates behavioral changes in the real world by leveraging persuasive design principles, is the winner of DATA against COVID-19, the online DeepHack organized by EIT Digital to develop digital solutions for epidemic…