Around the giants of the Eindhoven tech scene – Philips, ASML, NXP – are hundreds of smaller fledgeling companies, honing their ideas, and hoping to be the next big household name in high tech innovation. But what does it take…
Turnover of 4.5 million euros in 2017 Report by Petra Merkx, Fontys Bron The Fontys Student Entrepreneurs Scheme applies to students who want to combine business with a study. This is evident from the figures that the Fontys Centre for…
An artificial intelligent cooking robot for restaurants, a revolutionary energy storage system for intensive industry, sanitary pads that perform medical research or a drinking cup that does not spill. Just four of the concepts envisioned by startups from Munich, Copenhagen,…
Six regional design startups today pitched their plans at ASML, to gain specific support on prototyping, branding, financial planning, and market research. For them, it was another step on their way to the Dutch Design Week. The Startups want to…
No province in the Netherlands scores as highly in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship as North Brabant. Which startups are currently iconic for the power of this province? The Brabant Startup Awards provide the answer on September 25th. After five…
ATO-Gear is ready to produce more Arions, the smart running insole. At least if the startup finds enough investors, co-founder Andrew Statham says. In order to attract new investors quickly, Statham and his team launched a crowdfunding campaign via Seedrs…
It took a group of more than 200 researchers from 20 countries (IWGSC) around 13 years to decipher the complex genome of wheat almost completely. Thanks to these new findings, we can now hope not only to be able to…
During the Young Brainport Summer School week, 38 students from 22 different countries visited the biggest high-tech companies and educational institutions of the Brainport region to gain first-hand knowledge of the innovative technologies that are developed there and to get…
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, Tessie Hartjes, and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will look like. All six contributors – sometimes accompanied by…
If you say football robots, then you say Tech United. The Eindhoven team is an integral part of the major tournaments. No less than eleven times they reached the final of the Middle Size RoboCup, the world championship. Last June, the…