”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…
“Hans has been keeping a diary for more than thirty years and finds comfort in it, and also takes pleasure in it. The other day he found his diary from ’47, read it and, despite the idea for a story…
The Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes established the theory of superconductivity in 1911. He discovered that mercury loses its electrical resistance at 4.2 Kelvin (- 268.95 °C ). Since then, scientists have been searching for other superconductors which have the…
Just like their ‘neighbours’ at Preceyes, Microsure’s surgical robot MUSA has received a CE-marking, which makes it commercially available in Europe. Microsure says MUSA is the world’s first surgical robot for open microsurgery. It is developed by a team of…
In close collaboration with Brainport Development, Innovation Origins has produced and published a 96-page English language glossy magazine about present and future developments in this high-tech region. Great photography, portraits and interviews with the most relevant people in the Brainport…
Under the slogan “Save the bees”, 18.4 percent of the Bavarians voted for a petition for a referendum on biodiversity in January and February of this year. With this petition for a referendum a clear reduction of pesticides should be…
The new station area to be developed in Eindhoven is to become the city’s high-tech business card. The Dutch Mountains project initially wanted to realise something similar on the A2 between Eindhoven and the nearby municipality Veldhoven. Since the latter…
True to the motto “Great ideas in small packages”, the Berlin start-up Blinkist summarizes the key texts of non-fiction books into 15-minute audio books. The library currently contains more than 3,000 non-fiction books in 27 categories. Each month 40 more…
Just a year ago she was still on the stage of IO’s Gerard and Anton Awards, now she received two very different awards from Prince Constantijn van Oranje and Ivanka Trump: the Outstanding Women Entrepreneur in Science and Technology award…
Preceyes, the Eindhoven based start-up in robot-assisted precision eye surgery, has received CE marking approval for its surgical System, enabling the firm to market their system in Europe. The system assists trained surgeons during certain tasks around vitreoretinal surgery in…