The first forty SeaBubbles have been ordered and are in production in Asia. They will be ready within a few months. That’s what Minze Walvius tells us, representative of the French start-up SeaBubbles in The Netherlands. These SeaBubbles are watercraft…
The term ‘e-coli bacteria’ is often associated with poor food hygiene and nasty diseases. The pathogenic bacterial strain is undoubtedly responsible for the latter. On the bright side, these bacteria are also useful residents in our intestinal flora. They are…
We cannot solve the societal challenges of our time on our own. That is why the four technical universities in The Netherlands (Eindhoven, Delft, Wageningen and Twente) are jointly tackling the transition to a circular economy. An important objective of…
Saving for old age, for a new car, for a holiday trip, college education for the kids, etc. – everyone has good intentions, but with the implementation there is often a problem. The inventors of the Austrian start-up Monkee want…
Your life is complete once you have brought a child into the world, written a book and planted a tree. That’s apparently a good Spanish custom. My daughter Laura was born on 4 May 2003. Three years later Een Elftal…
The month of December is already in full swing. However, at IO we’re taking a look back at the month of November. After all, we still owe you a Start-up of the Month! Each workday at IO you can follow…
On the drawing boards, it already existed in several versions, but now there is the first prototype: BigRep, Berlin’s world player in the field of assitive Manufacturing, unveiled its first fully 3D printed, autonomous electric podcar, the LOCI, at the…
In 2018, companies, institutions and higher education in the Netherlands spent approximately 16.7 billion euros on Research and Development (R&D) with their own and hired staff. This is the highest level of expenditure ever for the country. The province of…
Eindhoven is doing well across the border. They even talk about ‘the wonder of Eindhoven’ in South Africa, China and Prague, according to mayor John Jorritsma. At the High Tech Next information day held at the High Tech Campus, he…
”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…