On 25 September the five winners of the Brabant Startup Awards will be announced. In the run-up to that event in Tilburg’s Wagenmakerij, we look ahead with the members of the jury. Today Alex Kind, CEO and co-founder of One…
Barcelona is one of the world’s leading examples of Smart City developments. And that is even more so during the annual Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), from 12 to 15 November in that city. “It is the meeting place…
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…
Who is responsible when an autonomous car drives into a group of cyclists? No one has the answer to this yet. Is the manufacturer to blame? The team that wrote the software? The owner of the car? Or maybe the…
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: Fanny Griveau Country of origin: France Work:…
In an interview for Radio4Brainport.org, the newly appointed full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), prof. dr. ir. Rudi Bekkers, reveals that he found evidence that Chinese authorities systematically favour Chinese patent applications over foreign applicants. Such discrimination makes…
This is a series of stories about students graduating in the field of design and mental health. This time we talk with Evie Sparidaens. Last year she graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven on the subject of dementia. It is…
Even today, trucks are indispensable for transporting goods. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in Germany, truck freight traffic is set to increase even further in the future. An increase of 39 per cent compared to…
On 25 September the 5 startups that win a Brabant Startup Award will be announced. In the run-up to that event in Tilburg’s Wagenmakerij we look ahead with the members of the jury. Today Jaap Schuddemat, CEO of Heliox in…
The Stuttgart-based car manufacturer Porsche wants to break new ground in navigation systems and invests in the Swiss start-up WayRay. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, the company develops and produces holographic augmented reality head-up display technologies and works to “seamlessly integrate…