Best read: Trial-and-error with self-driving buses
The first presentation of the Alexander Dennis Enviro200 bus back in March already attracted a great deal of interest. Several videos of this autonomous bus were circulated on the internet. It is...
Tomorrow is good: How we fail and why it matters
I regularly speak at so-called FuckUp Nights, events where people talk about failed projects and companies. I like the format very much. To be able to talk about something implies that we have...
Start-up of the week: charging your car can be done in minutes
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
Lack of team spirit? That’s why so few German scientists become entrepreneurs
In the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 issued by the World Economic Forum in 2018, Germany ranked third behind the USA and Singapore as a top location for world-class research. In terms of...
Tomorrow is good: By the time you get to the Moral Lab
I had no idea you could be anti time, but it is possible. In fact, that’s a reference to the Dutch title of a booklet about the Mastboomhuis museum. The Mastboomhuis is the only Dutch example...
Become a better manager by doing judo? This former top athlete teaches you how
Ever since she was very young, Jennifer Wichers had been in training every day to win an Olympic gold medal in judo. She recently had to let go of that dream. She is still busy with judo, albeit...
Start-up of the day: This is how you make prams and wheelchairs fit for winter
Whether with a pram or in a wheelchair – anyone who travels in snow with small wheels has a hard time. Moving around becomes an immense effort. Patrick Mayer demonstrates how ingeniously this...
Dutch Design Week Hidden Gem # 8: ‘Hotel Insomnia’ – the crown jewel of hidden gems
You can check in, rent a room, shower and even sleep there. But Hotel Insomnia is anything but an ordinary hotel. Normally, the artists’ collective De Fabriek works on new pieces or offers...
“Have technicians and designers make love together – fireworks guaranteed!”
It was “really just a design concept”, the red balloons that were to be used as a prototype for an artificial uterus at the Dutch Design Week of 2018. “This week we are here purely...
New methodology for defining turbulent flows
The effect of turbulent flows is obvious. As yet, these have not been scientifically defined and remains one of the biggest unsolved problems in science. A global team of leading physicists now...
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Discover the future at the World Design Embassies
From climate change, safety and mobility to circularity, health care and water: these are all themes that challenge the growing world population. At Innovation Origins we are looking for solutions...
New medical technologies are not always compatible with legal requirements
The progressively ageing society and new medical technologies are challenging the Austrian health and legal system. Laws must be amended or rewritten. Medical law expert Karl Stöger from the...
German minister sees a bright future for natural gas
“Gas is sexy!” With these rather remarkable words, the German Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier opened a meeting in Berlin last week intended to mark the culmination of months...
Start-up of The Day: automated inventory management for logistics companies
Monitoring inventories in warehouses is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task that also leaves plenty of room for error. With its latest autonomous drone inventAIRy® X, the Kassel-based start-up...
Beware of dog food: transmission of multiresistant bacteria to humans is possible
Every year more than 30,000 people in Europe die from multi-resistant bacteria. According to figures from the European Disease Prevention and Control Agency (ECDC), approximately 700,000 people per...
Dutch Design Week’s Hidden Gem # 7: Studio Nienke Hoogvliet
This year Nienke Hoogvliet will be at the Dutch Design Week in the Schellensfabriek for the seventh time. Her exhibition called H.E.R.B.S – Healthier Environment Remedy for Body and Skin...
How education is evolving; students now learn through challenge-based learning
Students at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) are no longer sitting in the lecture halls as much as they used to. Education is focusing more and more on the practical side, which means on...
Dutch Design Week’s hidden gem # 6: Glim – innovation through renovation
This year, Gijs Kuijpers and Jordie Rovers will be at the Dutch Design Week for the third time with their own exhibition: GLIM. Earlier this year, Kuijpers and his design agency Studio Eigengijs...
Start-up of the day: nanotechnology will help treat intestinal diseases
250,000 Europeans suffer from Crohn’s disease. More than 700,000 patients are in the United States. There are also thousands more in Japan, Australia and Canada. In total, several million...
Advisory committee of experts criticizes German government’s climate package
Apart from climate change deniers, no one else is indifferent as to where climate change is heading. Experts and a growing number of citizens agree that it is high time we stopped climate change....
Autonomous bus in Birmingham maneuvers around genuine road obstacles – including a cyclist
The UK’s first full-size autonomous bus maneuvered around real-life road features including a cyclist on its first public demonstration, last week in Birmingham. The vehicle, which uses sensors...
New production process for improved protein therapeutics
Proteins are often used in medicine to deliver drugs to the body and maintain the activity of these drugs in the body. Fundamental research has now provided a better understanding of the...
Start-up of the Day: From sunlight to fish, Blue Planet Ecosystems wants to shift pisciculture to computerized container systems
Climate change and dwindling agricultural land are major challenges for food and feed production. The supply of animal protein is particularly problematic. The start-up Blue Planet Ecosystems, based...
Dutch Design Week’s Hidden Gem # 5: Maatschappelijke Vormgevers MVG, socially engaged designers
The Weeghuisje (Weigh House) is less than four square meters in size and can be found on the Strijp T creative design production site. The platform, on which the trains were weighed originally, and...
E-car batteries as much as ten percent smaller
Valmet Automotive has introduced a battery management system (BMS) based on single-cell monitoring. It not only sends the individual cell data wirelessly to the BMS. It creates the data basis for...
