Fossil fuels are still the main source of energy for electricity generation worldwide. At the end of 2018, the share of renewable energy was only around 26 percent of the total amount of energy generated. The lion’s share of this…
Spain’s record tourism streak has come to an abrupt end. 83.5 million tourists will no longer be coming to the southern European country any time soon. In many ways, 2019 will be remembered as ‘the year before the corona crisis.’…
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. Philipp Weiser, Andreas Mähler, and Olaf Liebe…
The corona crisis is having an enormous impact on adults who have autism. This means that they are suffering from far more anxiety and depression symptoms than is normally the case. This is a cause for concern according to researchers…
Intel’s Thunderbolt connection is poorly secured. Master student Björn Ruytenberg of the University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands, has discovered seven security holes in the systems running on Windows or Linux. Intel has been informed of the problem and the…
May is already in full swing. However, at IO we’re taking a look back at April 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…
”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…
Why we send humans into space and hairdressers will never lose their job In 1965 NASA had to justify why they were sending humans into space and not just computers. Their official answer was: ‘Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear,…
Venice is undoubtedly the capital of extreme mass tourism. In order to be able to manage the multitudes, the city is designing an information system that is unique in the world. Red traffic lights at the first part of the…
Haroon Sheikh is a senior scientist at The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). I consider him to be a bit like the Dutch version of the famous historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Sapiens). Some time ago…