To love a robot
Bringing a loved one back from the dead, in the series Black Mirror it just happens. A robot replaces the deceased man to give the widow the feeling that she is not alone. This causes uncomfortable situations: the robot ‘sleeps’…
COLUMN: Multicultural innovation
As Program Director at Brainport Development, Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain. In the coming period, she will be writing a number of columns for Innovation Origins on regional developments, backgrounds and future trends in education and the labour market.…
Nominated for the German Founders Award with flow probes and an analysis program
The start-ups Vectoflow and CQSE of TU Munich are in the finals of the German Founders Award 2018. On September 11, the winners will be chosen in the ZDF Capital Studio Berlin. Interested people can follow the live stream of…
Student competition SensUs has brought the best biosensor a step closer again
A weekend full of researching, building and pitching students, all looking for that one compact biosensor that can measure precisely how many antibiotics are needed in the blood to fight an infection. The SensUs team, which we spoke to earlier,…
Basic research between electrical engineering and the living system
Having already shown what is possible in the fields of toxicology and medicine thanks to new technology without animal experiments, the last part of our series deals with basic research and the environment. Using living cells as sensors to detect…
Tomorrow is Good: What will be the New Smoking?
With the knowledge of then, looking back to now 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…
Fraunhofer Tandem Camp – it’s easier in twos
It’s easier to do things together – not only in your private life but also in your professional life. The Fraunhofer is also counting on this and has announced a competition for start-up cooperations in the form of a Tandem…
Individualized chemotherapy thanks to lab on a chip?
In medical research, experiments are still being carried out on millions of mice, rabbits, rats, dogs and monkeys worldwide, even though it has recently become increasingly difficult to obtain approval for animal experiments. In biomedical basic research in particular, researchers…
Internationals in Eindhoven: Hui from China
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: Hui Pu Country of origin: China Work:…
Spread of innovation in the Netherlands is faltering, Council says
The spread of innovations in the Netherlands is faltering. “The Netherlands is a major innovator, but too many innovations remain small or unused because they do not spread well. The government needs to focus its innovation policy much more strongly…