EFFECT Photonics, a leading developer of high-performance DWDM optical components based on its optical System-on-Chip, has completed a series-B funding round led by Innovation Industries. Financial details were not revealed. EFFECT Photonics' headquarters is in the...
Productivity has been the focus in Dutch agriculture for many decades. However, at present, other aspects of food production have received increasingly more attention. One of the aspects that have been scrutinized is the length of the current supply chains for which...
DELFT/EINDHOVEN, 19 November - No doubt, this what consumers all over the world are waiting for: phone sensors that measure air quality, tiny solar panels for device charging, phone batteries that might never run out, highly efficient fuel cells and batteries for...
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Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in education and the labour market. In order to do my job well, data are...
The apple of the Polish government's eye are start-ups. With a 700-million euro programme Start In Poland the authority has ambitions to make Poland a start-up hub for Central Europe. This is the second of two articles about the innovation climate in Poland. WARSAW,...
With a special short movie, Eindhoven has started the holiday season. In the ten minute video, two of Eindhoven's trademarks are combined: the light and the Eindhoven vibes. Steye van Dam plays the role of the civil servant who has to come up with a solution for the...
My personal mission is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy so we can make this world a happier place. I have many wonderful fellow travellers that share this goal but are being bamboozled by entropy pessimism which puts them on the wrong side of the...
The combustion engine could survive if the development of e-fuels were consistently pushed forward. But too many parameters of various kinds are still blocking the market launch of synthetic fuels. This will be discussed at the International Engine Congress in...
The headquarters is and will remain in Eindhoven, but Innovation Origins has now also managed to build a solid base outside that Dutch city-of-tech. The story of innovation is also sourced - and spread - in the rest of the Netherlands, in Germany, and since today also...
VIENNA, 17 November 2018 - In the summer semester of 2019, the new PhD program Bioactive will start at the Vienna University of Technology. In an interdisciplinary research project, the aim is to discover valuable, medically relevant substances in moulds - or fungi -...
After three years under the rule of the right-wing Law and Justice, the Polish innovation ecosystem is doing fine. Even better than one might expect. This is the first of two articles about the Polish innovation ecosystem. WARSAW, 17 November 2018 - It was supposed to...
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: Gilad Sitton Country of origin: Israel Work:...
What is the best way to increase your thinking power? Simply by running or cycling. This is the result of a recent study by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In order to document the increased brain activity during movement, the method of...
The number of English taught programmes in Dutch higher education have risen tremendously in the last fifteen years. A wide array of critics raised concerns about possible negative effects. For instance, English supposedly would have a negative effect on academic...
Aiming at younger visitors, Glow director Ronald Ramakers was looking for a way to add more interactivity and innovation to his light festival. A team of creative and innovative employees of the Greenhouse Group helped him out. The result is a speech-driven chatbot...
