Over the past few months, corona maps have been turning up in all kinds of media. These come in roughly two types: maps with comparisons between different countries, or zoomed-in versions of a single country depicting provinces or municipalities. The…
It seems perfectly natural to make video phone calls with family and friends during this quarantine period. But what if you can no longer manage to learn how new apps and devices work? Elderly and people suffering from dementia are…
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day have been featured and…
The Netherlands is busy adapting in all kinds of ways in order to deal with the corona pandemic. But are our corona measures effective at all? What are the benefits of testing? And why does a vaccine take so long…
What do you think? Has the corona crisis so far yielded more or fewer patent applications? Oddly enough, the answer is that no effect can be seen whatsoever on the number of Dutch and European patent applications. Still, there are…
The corona crisis has given tremendous momentum to the development of start-ups focusing on online education and homeworking. This week Innovation Origins will therefore pay extra attention to start-ups in this edtech sector. This is the last article in the…
It suddenly landed here early this April. That wonderful Dutch term ‘anderhalvemetereconomie.’ As in ‘a-meter-and-a-half economy.’ (Dutch governmental guidelines stipulate social distancing should be at least 1.5 meters – not quite the US 6 feet limit, ed.) Everyone who heard…
The corona crisis has given tremendous momentum to the development of start-ups focusing on online education and homeworking. This week Innovation Origins will therefore pay extra attention to start-ups in this edtech sector. In 2018, the three brothers Rick, Paul,…
Imagine that you are a doctor and you want to explain to medical students what the impact of a fracture to the skull will be. There are several methods by which you can do that. You can show them books…
Dutch start-up Lightyear from Helmond has once more pulled off a coup. Today it was announced that the company that emerged from Solar Team Eindhoven is cementing its ties with Royal DSM from Geleen, also from The Netherlands. The aim…