”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…
Many of you know that I regularly debunk the claim that diesel vehicles emit less CO2 than electric vehicles. But one thing that I hadn’t really worked out is just how much CO2 is emitted when gasoline and diesel is…
Clean air, good facilities and low crime rates are among the benefits that make Copenhagen and Bern the most liveable cities in the world for European expats. Dutch and Swiss cities dominate the list with 4 entries each. Canada once…
More than thirty babies on an incubator ward with a single nurse. This is quite normal in African hospitals. The nurse is always busy with the day-to-day care. Identifying early symptoms of disease is difficult then. Monitors for keeping an…
Through a partnership with Scroll, Innovation Origins (IO) wants to increase its impact in the United States. The English-language website of IO (which operates in addition to Dutch and German versions) has already been able to gain a strongly growing…
The number of project orders for the installation of systems that communicate data via LiFi is skyrocketing, according to Head of Business Development Ed Huibers of Eindhoven-based tech company Signify (formerly Philips Lighting). With LiFi, communication is via light instead…
The European Union (EU) must drastically increase the budget for research and innovation. That is the view of Jan van den Biesen, an independent Dutch policy advisor. Horizon Europe, the successor to Horizon 2020, is the latest program where European…
The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) aims to take the lead in European research projects over the coming year. These are research projects within Horizon Europe, the new program that the European Union will be using to support research and…
A nanosensor has been developed that can trace biomarkers for cancer in the blood that are difficult to detect. It is a scientific variant of ‘looking for a needle in a haystack’ whereby researchers from Twente and Wageningen have succeeded.…
One in five Dutch households has to cope with financial difficulties. This is evident from the 2018 figures from Nibud (Dutch National Institute for Family Finance Information). According to the Amsterdam start-up Dyme, a lot of debts are the result…