When an e-commerce company is making headway and has already overgrown the size of a small webshop but doesn’t have the turnover of a shop like Zalando yet, keeping the fast pace of growth becomes hard for this online business.…
The oncologist Clemens Schmitt of Kepler University Linz is developing a preventive dual therapy for cancer patients. The goal is to reduce the relapse rate. Some patients defeat the cancer definitely, others suffer a relapse. Medicine is not yet able to prevent…
Electric cars are good for the environment. This is certainly a fitting statement – especially if the electricity for the vehicles is not generated from coal-fired power plants. But what about electricity storage systems, the batteries, of the cars? There…
The Urban Waste project develops innovative ecological strategies for sustainable waste management in tourist regions. With a WasteApp the tourists are also integrated. According to estimates by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), tourists account for around fourteen percent of the global volume…
TechLeap.NL is going to replace StartupDelta as the organisation to push Dutch start-ups on an international level. Prince Constantijn van Oranje, who currently leads StartupDelta, says he wants to turn the Netherlands into a ‘unicorn nation’. “With TechLeap.NL, the Netherlands is running…
Lignin is the name of the material that will soon replace crude oil in a wide variety of areas. It is made from all plants that we humans do not eat, such as wood and straw. It is also perfectly…
Sometimes, only sometimes, we think we should turn Innovation Origins into a website about mobility. Everything, well, almost everything about this theme is devoured by you. Our most read story of the past year was written by scientist Auke Hoekstra…
The city of Utrecht will soon have charging stations that can charge and discharge electric cars. This allows the car to return electricity to the network in times of energy shortage. This new energy and mobility system is a result…
We all recognise it: an unnecessarily long period of red at the traffic lights causes irritation for road users who are in a hurry. With intelligent traffic lights, this will soon be a thing of the past. Built-in cameras detect…
It is often mentioned as a general trend these days: we are slowly but surely shifting from the ownership to the access of goods. Who would still want to own CDs if you can access all the music you would…