A shirt made from sour milk flakes doesn’t sound particularly appealing. Yet this is exactly what microbiologist and fashion designer Anke Domaske does. She developed a sustainable method to extract casein from milk flakes. In last week’s best read article,…
”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…
After 150,000 fully electric kilometres – almost four times around the earth – DAF CF Electric is ready for the next phase: selling it in limited numbers. The e-truck was named Green Truck Logistics Solution 2019 in June, an award for…
Ah, I suppose you were thinking about money as soon as you saw the headline. Fine, that’s also an investment. But I’m mainly thinking about long term, far-reaching investments in people, community and relationships. Pretty logical, new developments are tricky.…
Philosopher Katleen Gabriëls recently published her book ‘Regels voor Robots‘ (Rules for Robots) as part of her chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Last week Innovation Origins published the first part of this interview. Today it’s time for the second…
When your friends in the pub get really excited about “those annoying lithium batteries”, the objections of electric car enthusiasts about recycling are often quickly brushed aside. The fact is that theoretically more than 90% of the batteries can already…
It’s a straightforward rationale. Of the approximately 14,000 Dutch trucks driving around at home and abroad (according to 2017 figures from the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics), at least two-thirds were not fully loaded. If that load capacity were to…
Zeeland, on the Dutch North Sea coast, 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 the organisations…
The Spanish start-up Natural Machines offers state-of-the-art technology that allows you to make your favorite meals and food in a quick and easy way using a 3D printer. Their machine, Foodini, is a 3D food printer/kitchen appliance that enables you…
The number of people with dementia will increase dramatically in the coming years. Currently, 280,000 people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (70 % of dementia patients), vascular dementia (16 %) or a similar condition just in The Netherlands. This number will…