Starting with nothing more than an idea in 2012, Daan Kersten and Jonas Wintermans developed a complex, high-tech 3D metal printing system in just over three years. They now have a rapidly growing business with a customer list that includes Airbus, Volkswagen and the Alfa Romeo Racing Formula 1...
As head of innovation for the Shanghai-based XNode powered by HighTechXL, Luuk Eliëns has devoted the past two years to helping to build scalable tech companies in China. Speaking at the recent Beyond Tech HighTechXL showcase at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Eliëns told the audience: “China is...
Aircision, a deep-tech venture from the Eindhoven-based start-up accelerator HighTechXL, is ready to test its laser-based 5G communications technology. This will be the first test of Free Space Optics (FSO) as a viable link for 5G networks, and will entail beaming data between buildings on High...
The new network for women working in tech, Female Tech Heroes, has announced the programme for its full-day event on 21 May 2019, at the High Tech Campus. The jam-packed schedule includes eight speakers, one panel discussion and 14 workshops, and features names such as Carmen van Vilsteren from...
Stakeholders in Brabant’s fast-growing logistics industry are working to resolve a range of challenges. These include skills shortages, overloaded transport infrastructure and environmental impact. The effectiveness with which these matters are handled will shape the longer-term competitiveness of...
Female Tech Heroes will be launched at the Eindhoven High Tech Campus on 21 May, marking “the start of a special network, where women in technology can connect, learn and inspire each other”. The full-day agenda will include keynotes, panel discussions, workshops and one-on-one interactions over...
Solar Team Eindhoven has kicked off the production process for the fourth edition in its series of solar-powered family vehicles. A notable change since the project started seven years ago is that the entire creation process will take place in Eindhoven: most of the design is based at the...
The High Tech Plaza, which is the start-up hub of the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, is extending the support which it provides to high-tech start-ups. Having expanded its network across three buildings during the course of last year – “one to start, one to scale, and one to get support” – it has now...
Marijn van der Poll, former co-curator of the Dutch Design Week and a faculty member at the Design Academy Eindhoven, says it is a myth that idea generation – whether for a design, a product, a business strategy or a governmental policy – requires some mysterious inspiration or creative ability,...
The Eindhoven-headquartered scientific research project Phoenix has entered the final year of its EU Horizon 2020 funding, as it pursues its mission of devising sensors and technology that can reach inaccessible spaces, and that can retrieve information without direct hardware or software control....
The Brainport region will be host to a major European start-up event this spring. Registration has opened for Beyond Tech, a full-day event “for tech innovation in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond”, hosted by start-up accelerator HighTechXL. The event expects to bring together 450...
Marc van Ravensteijn was a long-time owner of business that built hearses; he is now applying his knowledge of specialist vehicles to solving an entirely different “last mile” problem – that of finding greener and more efficient solutions for the so-called last mile of the supply chain, which...
When the Utrecht-based startup Qoobi attended last year’s CES Awards in Las Vegas, they received the best possible endorsement for their newly developed product, a speaker-like device that converts digital track to analogue signal: Musician Stevie Wonder was making his way through the noisy...
Rick Scholte didn’t follow instructions on the first day of an internship for his Master’s programme. He had been assigned to a lab which screened consumer products for noise, and his job was to apply active noise-cancelling technology to quieten a robot used in the screening. Instead, he ignored...
All over the world, cities need talents. The local supply and demand of these people sometimes is a problem, but fortunately, there are many people who would like to show off their talents in an exciting new environment. Eindhoven is one of the cities that need talents from the outside world. So...
Digital twin technology, the creation of a digital copy of a device, system, process or person, is fast becoming the norm in innovation, with endless applications in scientific research, manufacturing and healthcare – to name a few. While there is nothing new about considering and manipulating a...
The High Tech Campus Eindhoven’s newly released 36-minute documentary “Curious Tom” presents Brainport’s innovations in technology and design — from the perspective of an inquisitive eleven-year-old boy making his way through the city by bike, and interviewing various tech pioneers about...
With its bold mission of ensuring that the Netherlands has the world’s best logistics sector by 2020, TKI Dinalog – known more descriptively as The Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics – is responsible for sourcing government funding and allocating this to logistics research projects, which it...
One more time, we look back on 2018’s High Tech Piek Awards. These are the interviews Radio4Brainport made at the event. Enjoy! Bert-Jan Woertman, MD: Brainport Industries Campus — It’s all about people Bert-Jan Woertman is Director of the Brainport Industries Campus, and a...
The high-tech health cluster in the Brabant region is a comprehensive and lively ecosystem that includes specialist research, sophisticated production capability and willing investment capital. A golden thread is an open innovation taking place amongst the various public-sector, academic and...
A device that provides foetal and maternal heart rate monitoring that is non-invasive and more accurate than conventional methods, has been brought to market by Nemo Healthcare, after more than ten years’ research using advanced signal processing. The start-up says its innovation supports...
The car-sharing platform Amber opened new offices in the Innovation Powerhouse in Eindhoven’s Strijp-T district this week, using the occasion to celebrate its achievements over the 21 months since it was founded. These milestones include a fleet of 140 fully electric BMW i3 vehicles that service...
The Brabant region in the Netherlands continues to strengthen its position as a flagship location for the Dutch and the European High-Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM) sector, benefitting from fruitful and targeted cooperation between government, business and research organisations at a national...
A conversation with Willem Endhoven, managing director at HighTechNL, about the high-tech sector in Brabant – and throughout the Netherlands. More about Brabant’s ambition in the European High tech Industry. Brabant high-tech is not an island High-tech innovation in the Netherlands is too...
High-volume and complex data flows make it difficult to detect cyber-fraud, particularly if the fraud is specific or one-off in nature. Bram Cappers devoted his PhD research at the TU/e Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to solving this problem and is now taking the system he...
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