The successful treatment of patients with chronic paraplegia by the Eindhoven based startup GTX Medical will get its next phase in 2020. The company, co-founded by Sjaak Deckers, Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, will perform a second clinical validation on three medical sites, one…
Not the exploding supernovas, but a stellar wind might be the cause of lesser new star formations. Astronomers from Leiden University have discovered that the stellar wind from a newborn star in the Orion Nebula prevents more stars from forming in…
Jobs, jobs and jobs. Politicians and news outlets talk and write a lot about jobs. The creation of it, the loss of jobs, and how they want to create more in agriculture, in IT, in logistics and even in coal…
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Ed Heerschap Country of origin: the Netherlands…
Twelve hundred kilometers is the distance solar vehicles in the Cruiser class of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge must be able to cover in one go this fall. This new rule, which limits teams to recharging only twice between the…
Every week there is a news item about the latest technological breakthrough, almost every day a new app or gadget appears. But what impact does all this technology have on our society? Which direction is this heading in and how…
To be dead and alive at the same time, is that possible? Even though it contradicts conventional human understanding, in the case of Schrödinger’s cat it is possible – if only in theory. Already in 1935, the Viennese physicist Erwin…
What do ship hulls and teeth have in common? The answer: harmful biofilms can settle on both materials. These rather slimy coatings consist of countless microorganisms. Worst case scenario, they are undesirable bacteria. And these, in turn, can cause some…
The first commercial, industrial 3D concrete printing facility in Europe was officially opened this morning in Eindhoven. Weber Beamix and BAM Infra will experiment here with 3D printing of concrete elements for construction, with the aim of further developing this…
A very clever industry incubator is taking shape on the campus of the University of Twente. It’s the latest move by Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization. With 72 institutes and research units across Germany and a research budget of…