It gives you a good feeling to see how many people are committed to doing something useful in this time of crisis. Very often this involves patents. I spoke to an entrepreneur who wants to make protective equipment and wonders…
Studying and performing sports at a high level, many people see this as a difficult combination. Especially if you also want to add your innovative solutions in an entrepreneurial setting. For Noah van Horen and Jules de Cock, it turns…
On Wednesday the 8th of April, the European Commission sent out a press release announcing that the governments of all Member States were expected to start with preparations for two digital apps this month. They have also been called upon…
The Coronavirus – still something that was far from our daily lives a month and a half ago, is now furiously sweeping through The Netherlands. But not as drastically to the same extent all over the country. That one region…
Over the past decade, technology has often been labeled as disruptive. This is a characterization with a highly technophobic undertone. Personally, I prefer to focus on the opportunities and capabilities that technology has to offer. Especially now since we’re confronted…
It’s going to get tougher this weekend. “Stay at home! Keep it up,” the governments all over Europe are reiterating. Because if we continue to do this en masse, the corona measures may soon be relaxed slightly. The pressure for…
The vast majority of Spaniards were not really that worried when a German tourist on Gomera in the Canary Islands was diagnosed with the coronavirus on January 31st. Nor when the same disease was diagnosed in a Brit on the…
This week, under the leadership of European Commissioner Thierry Breton, the European Commission sent a recommendation to all EU Member States’ governments to utilize telecom data and data technology in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This recommendation…
Researchers at the Radboud university medical center (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) seem to have found an essential mechanism in the disease process of COVID-19, which has so far been overlooked. Bradykinin, which makes blood vessels leak, might be the missing link.…
The professor would never have imagined that his column would have had such an impact. Over the past few days, he had been approached by people from the security sector and the science world, by app-builders, conspiracy theorists, two surgeons…