‘Precisely because things are going so well in Brainport Eindhoven, it is important to link the power of today to the challenges of tomorrow’. According to Arnold Stokking, Managing Director Industry at TNO and initiator of the future exploration of…
This week is Photonics Application Week in and around Eindhoven. Reason enough to take a good look at what this promise really means. Today part 2 with a look at the importance of PhotonDelta. Here the previous episodes. [box] PhotonDelta was founded…
The current discussion about diesel vehicles is heating up people’s minds. Especially when it is said that older diesel cars should be excluded from city traffic. Practicable solutions are needed. But what happens to diesel buses in urban traffic? Due…
In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. The six columnists, occasionally supplemented with…
Reliably measuring the forces and temperatures occurring on rotor blades of wind turbines and using the data to optimise the control of the turbines: with its fibre-optic sensors, fos4X makes this possible, especially when lightning can disturb the usual measuring…
Germans know too little about electromobility. This is the result of a recent study by the energy supplier Eon conducted in cooperation with Statista. It turned out that many Germans assume that electric cars do not get far enough with…
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: Pascale Lamacchia Country of origin: France Work:…
Hocosto (Achtmaal), Lightyear (Helmond), Morphotonics (Veldhoven), Flow.ai (Tilburg) and PeelPioneers (Son) are the first winners of the Brabant Startup Awards. The prizes were presented on 25 September in Tilburg. The Brabant Startup Awards are an initiative of Innovation Origins, in…
The new gold, the next ASML, one of Europe’s five “key technologies“, a potential billion dollar business. Superlatives are thrown at you when you speak to a representative from the photonics sector. But as is often the case with new…
The Eindhoven Maker Faire is a celebration of Eindhoven’s maker culture. On 29 and 30 September you can build gliders, weave carpets and make your own 3D printed robots. And program yourself out of an escape room. Lex van Gijsel…