Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) will open its doors to anyone interested in innovation on Saturday, June 8. During the High Tech Ontdekkingsroute, several high-tech companies will provide a glimpse behind the scenes and demonstrate their latest technologies. For example, you…
Lock the door, get behind the wheel, and off to France! Many people are driving their cars to their vacation destinations this summer. And thanks to artificial intelligence the journey is also less stressful than it once was. In the…
There are countless events and lectures organized for innovation professionals every year. Can’t see the forest for the trees anymore? Or do you need some inspiration? Good news! Every month, IO provides you with an overview of exciting events for…
BioBTX, a pioneering developer of renewable aromatics technology in the Netherlands, has secured over €80 million to launch its first commercial-scale plant. This investment will fund a renewable chemicals plant. The plant will produce sustainable aromatics (BTX) from plastic waste…
The technology that makes radiation therapy for cancer possible has improved considerably in recent decades, clinical physicist Coen Hurkmans observes. He has been working at the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven for 23 years. “We can irradiate more and more precisely.…
Making energy-intensive industries more sustainable is crucial to achieving climate goals, says a new study. TNO updated the future scenarios drawn up two years ago for the Dutch energy supply. The study is based on the tightened national and European…
I think there are few people who associate design science with laws and regulations. Yet the two have more in common than you might think. Kees Dorst, in his book Frame Innovation, defines ‘design’ as seeing a situation, being able…
Each week in our Sunday newsletter, we look back on the past seven days. We always do so at the initiative of our cartoonist, Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, draws a picture, and we take it from there. When…
Offshore wind farms are an indispensable part of the Netherlands’ energy transition. The target for offshore wind energy was exceeded in 2023: current capacity is 4.7 gigawatts, 0.2 gigawatts more than the target. There will only be more wind turbines at…
Dutch chip suppliers face a crucial challenge. Their heavy dependence on a few large chip giants threatens future growth and could lead to a missed revenue potential of €6 billion. Diversification into adjacent markets is necessary to avoid this impending…