Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in education and the labour market. Last week I was in…
After a long warm summer, it was a bit drizzly for two days this week. And immediately we had two record traffic jams. On Tuesday we saw the worst morning rush hour and on Thursday the heaviest evening rush hour…
TU/e innovation Space operates as a student community that facilitates and supports interdisciplinary challenge-based education, engineering design, and entrepreneurship. It is a place where students learn to deal with complex societal and industrial challenges and become ‘engineers of the future’.…
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: Valentine Ichtertz Country of origin: France Work:…
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.12.2″] “Here everything comes together”, Michel Weeda is in the middle of an enthusiastic story about the innovation programme ‘Factory of the Future’ which he set up at the Brainport Industries Campus with the Brabant Development Company…
“Who considers themselves to be a computer nerd?”, a number of people carefully raise their hands. “Nice, but tech-nerds, other nerds and also non-nerds are welcome”, laughs the presenter who calls himself Tom Hackatom. In the main hall of the…
Three patients with chronic paraplegia were able to walk thanks to precise electrical stimulation of their spinal cords via a wireless implant. In a double study published in Nature and Nature Neuroscience. Swiss scientists Grégoire Courtine (EPFL and CHUV/Unil) and Jocelyne Bloch (CHUV/Unil) show…
During the Tech Xperience Week, ten technical talents from all over the world got the chance to discuss the latest developments and projects with various companies from the high-tech region of Brainport Eindhoven. One of the lucky ten who got selected…
How can fashion and technology collaborate more closely in Eindhoven? This is the question that was discussed in the meeting of Women of Wearables held during Dutch Design Week 2018. Women of Wearables (WoW) is the global organization with headquarters…
Albert Einstein’s General relativity theory is a book from 1915 with seven seals for the vast majority of “normal mortals”. In a nutshell, the special theory of relativity developed earlier states that everything is “relative”, i.e. that time does not…