A startup usually arises from your own frustration or something you miss in your work or in your hobbies. This was also the case with Marc Penders and Camiel de Ruiter, founders of ChemNote. They designed a notebook with both…
Munich is the European city of patents. No other city has filed as many patents as Munich in 2017. It brings Munich the #4 position in Europe as far as innovation is concerned. Only London, Cambridge and Paris rank higher.…
Well above Berlin, Brussels, and Barcelona, but not yet near London, Cambridge, Paris, and Munich: Eindhoven is seventh on the list of innovative European cities. Mainly thanks to a high score in patent applications (third in Europe, Munich is #1),…
Every sport has its own scene. Tricking is known for having an open culture where knowledge is widely shared among its members. Knowledge about how to train your body and how to eat healthy. The tricking community is a warm…
This afternoon forty regional entrepreneurs came to the Eindhoven University of Technology to be inspired in the field of innovation. The session with Innovation Lab director Steef Blok, Professor Maarten Steinbuch and five students was an initiative of the employers’ organisation…
Bart van der Linden became world champion freerunning in 2016. This year he will be organising Hop the Blok, Eindhoven’s freerunning festival, for the fifth edition during EMOVES. This is a series of portraits of the people behind EMOVES, Eindhoven’s…
This is Part 2 of the series Campuses in North Brabant. In the next weeks, we will publish the profiles of all 8 innovation campuses that were mentioned in the recent study by Buck Consultants International (BCI). Every Tuesday we highlight…
Friday afternoon in the Rugged Studio at Strijp-S. On the first floor, overlooking the BMX training hall, we meet with breakdancer Vicky Bergmans. She is only 16 years old, and she just qualified for the Olympic Youth Games that will…
High Tech XL-Day, the event that is organised twice a year by the accelerator program of High Tech XL, is taking a different turn this year. Not only the seven startups of the accelerator program that present their progress and…
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…