In ten to twenty years’ time, each household will be producing its own sustainable energy in one way or another. That’s the conviction of Christoph Grimmer, co-founder of Efficient Energy Technology GmbH (EET). This start-up has designed Solmate. Which is…
The days when an inventor sat behind closed doors tinkering with groundbreaking technology are over. Nowadays, scientists from a variety of backgrounds work together to come up with an invention or a product. They also dare to bring it to…
The Maxeon solar panel technology by Sunpower will provide the solar power for Lightyear, the Helmond, Netherlands based start-up that builds a solar-powered electric car. The Lightyear One, of which the first prototype was presented last summer, will have a…
Increasingly more people are switching to electric mobility or are thinking about doing just that within the next few years. More and more public transport buses also run on electricity. Last week, the DAF e-truck was added to this list.…
”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…
More and more often colleges and universities invite me to give a guest lecture or a seminar on the themes of mistakes, the culture of failure and constructive management of failure in companies. Apart from the fact that this somewhat…
Zeeland is not the first province you think of when it comes to innovation. All the more reason for Innovation Origins to adjust that image. In six episodes we show a cross-section of Zeeland’s organizations that give innovation a face. The…
If we want tomorrow to be any good, we’ve got to do improve it right now. The well-known American management professor Peter Drucker once said: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Yet to do that,…
What do you do with the leftover power generated from your own system which you don’t need yourself? Very simple: sell it to your neighbors. And if you don’t have the space or money to build your own private green…
Major public transport strikes in France have been bringing the country to a standstill for weeks now. Hundreds of thousands of French people have seen their Christmas holiday plans fall apart. People who depend on trains and subways and who…