Maybe because we all know the romantic side of start-up-life a little bit too well, we tend to forget to think about the financial side. How to get money to get your business started? Katja Hilckmann, EY Associate Partner, and…
Every second three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. However, reaching the diagnosis takes a long time, on average around 14 months. In people under the age of 65 even 4 years. Patients cannot (yet) count on healing, there…
Wouter Vijvers and his Chromodynamics team just missed the grand prize of TU Eindhoven’s Golden Lightbulb contest, but there wasn’t much time to lament about that. Today, the consortium consisting of DIFFER, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Chromodynamics received a €100,000…
MBraun’s representative looks pleased as he watches his “Glove Box” being used in practice. It has large glass cabinets with rubber arms to allow the employees of the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) to work in a sterile environment. A young…
The Eindhoven scale-up SMART Photonics has successfully closed a loan agreement with PhotonDelta to the amount of 3.75 million euros. The company, located in Eindhoven on the High Tech Campus, plays a central role in the integrated photonics industry. It…
Former European Commissioner Neelie Kroes kicks off of the ambitious Female Tech Heroes network, which will be launched on Tuesday, May 21st in the Dutch Technology Week at High Tech Campus Eindhoven. More than 600 tech women have signed up. Kroes:…
Vertical farming or city farming – the growth of plants indoors stacked in vertical layers – fully depends on the artificial lighting instead of sunlight. Philips Lighting started working on light products for indoor farming in 2010 together with HAS…
Urban Change Lab is a web platform that brings together artisans and creative people, who want to realize their ideas. The creator, Jochen Baumeister, is particularly interested in high-quality work, the appreciation of craftsmanship and fair payment. In an interview with…
Granted: Poland is not exactly known as a green EU country. But thanks to the German energy giant Innogy this could soon change. The RWE subsidiary is launching a project with 500 BMW i3 in Warsaw in April. At the…
According to Statista, there were around 83,200 electric cars in Germany on the 1stof January 2019. This contrasts with 13,900 charging stations (as of March 6th2019). But most of these charging stations are located in conurbations. The Berlin start-up Me…