Ravi Naidoo (Design Indaba), Laurens van den Acker (Renault) and Wendy Plomp (Dutch Invertuals) are the ambassadors of the 17th Dutch Design Week (DDW). They are succeeding Winy Maas (MVRDV), Lonny van Ryswyck & Nadine Sterk (Atelier NL) and Marcus…
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: Sonia Tomegrós Regalado Country of origin: Spain…
BMX freestyle will be a new discipline at the Olympic Games of 2020. And Shanice Silva Cruz will hopefully be the first female participant from the Netherlands. We meet with her in the 040 BMX Park to talk about her…
Step in the Arena is an international graffiti festival that takes place on June 30th and July 1st in the Berenkuil in Eindhoven and is part of EMOVES. Co-founder Emil van der Wijst remembers the first piece he saw as…
The two Brabant universities, four Brabant universities for Applied Science, the province of North Brabant and all the regional development companies will work together to support promising Brabant startups. This alliance leads to a single joint programme under the name…
“We actually wanted to organize just a tour from the High Tech Campus, but it got bigger and bigger.” Roel Voorwald, founder of the Corporate Vitality and Campus Sports & Health Club, talks about the plans in the run-up to…
Improving communication quality through compensation for temperature variations SemiBlocks, the Eindhoven based semiconductor company, has raised €3 million from BOM Brabant Ventures and a major strategic partner in the United States. The funds will be used to develop a new…
Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) can, among other things, alleviate uncontrolled movement and trembling in Parkinson’s patients. However, the existing technology to place DBS electrodes in the brain is imprecise, so that only top specialists achieve a good success rate. Marc Janssens…
This is Part 1 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…
Eindhoven original JW Player was selected by Discovery for its delivery of the first digital Olympics on Eurosport.com JW Player, the world’s largest network-independent video platform that started in Eindhoven but has its headquarters in New York, was key in…