We all know Auke Hoekstra from his relentless struggle for correct, verified data about electric driving. He often writes about it at Innovation Origins. Recently he had a fierce discussion with Belgian professor Damien Ernst, who claimed that an electric…
Female Tech Heroes will be launched at the Eindhoven High Tech Campus on 21 May, marking “the start of a special network, where women in technology can connect, learn and inspire each other”. The full-day agenda will include keynotes, panel…
I show how in Europe, an electric vehicle becomes greener after 20 to 40 thousand kilometres of driving, not 700 thousand as a famous Belgian professor calculated on television recently. He has corrected his calculation in a new blog post but in…
The Maritime Equipment Technology Institute of the Jiangsu University of Science & Technology has chosen Additive Industries’ 3D metal printing technology for their production of LNG heat exchangers. The deal, Additive Industries’ first order in China, could be made on…
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…
One might wonder why it doesn’t already exist: a land registry for materials. In 2017 Madaster, Utrecht region based, was founded: a company that creates ‘material passports’ for buildings, making every building’s construction transparent. After expansion in European countries, they…
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University have discovered the parameters that govern the encapsulation of drugs. This gives more control over the slow and steady release of drugs in patients. Moreover, designing encapsulations for new drugs…
Named ‘FasTrackathon‘, the Eindhoven based accelerator HighTechXL is holding a new event that focuses on matching high tech start-ups to some of the most advanced technologies in the world as they form their companies. HighTechXL says the FasTrackathon, which is on 27…
Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) and Holland Innovative will cooperate in supporting companies in the field of data science. With the cooperation agreement between JADS in Den Bosch and Holland Innovative, based at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, both…
The playing field of universities cannot be captured within national borders. But their direct ecosystem is often regional and their funding largely national. That clashes. If departing board member Jo van Ham of the Eindhoven University of Technology were allowed…