Start-ups have always had a hard time, but especially at a time when half the economy is in danger of collapsing, these starting companies have an extra burden on their situation: often not even a...
Never waste a good crisis. Innovation Origins takes this to heart and will start – perhaps a bit against the trend – with our very own online ‘tv’ channel: IO-tv. This...
No reduction in demand, but still some changes in the delivery of new systems to their clients. President and CEO Peter Wennink expects ASML to be “limitedly impacted” by the Corona...
This week we’re taking another look at the corona crisis here in the ‘follow-up’ section. Where do we stand when it comes to the ethical side of all this innovation that aims to...
Dutch entrepreneur Kees Koolen and investor in Booking.com and Uber from the very outset is busy all day providing support to technological start-ups which he invests in. He has never experienced a...
All over the world, people are trying to cope with times of Corona. Everybody tries to survive it, some try to fight it and others are looking for ways to help the ones in that need this most. Every...
Development of new artificial intelligence happens so fast that it is impossible for most people to keep up with it. That’s according to a report ‘Artificial Intelligence: Trends to...
The Utrecht maker of study bots, the start-up Helpr, has begun cooperation with the ‘‘Studenten helpen scholieren’ (‘Students help students’) organisation. This was set up...
The big football stadiums are empty these days. Corona has crippled just about every league in the world. This offers the grass teams the opportunity to give the pitch some extra attention. Their...
Fundsup connects investors and numerous entrepreneurs who own promising start-ups with each other via a digital platform. On this platform, start-ups can pitch their business and state how much...
For weeks now in Italy it has been practically impossible to find face masks. Except through the black market. Yesterday the Italian FIOD confiscated 10,000 of them. The masks are being sold under...
Katherine Johnson died on the 24th of February at the age of almost 102. Johnson was a brilliant mathematician. Her work at NASA made an undeniably important contribution to American space flight....
Eindhoven-based start-up Fruitpunch AI is developing a system that uses artificial intelligence to analyze how effective the Dutch government’s policy is in combating Corona virus infections....
Software Hotmaps Toolbox helps to find sustainable alternatives for heating and cooling homes and buildings. After all, about half of the energy consumption in Europe is attributable to heating and...
The Utrecht-based start-up Perfect Place creates environmental analyses for large-scale organizations. Such as real estate parties, but also healthcare institutions. They reveal the best places to...
The European Commission is preparing legislation to provide a huge data set that can be accessed free of charge. This should make it easier for European companies, research institutes and...
Roel Wessels is a physicist, keyboard player in bands and in daily life project manager for Holland Innovative. Here he blogs about his experiences in the world of high-tech. “I’m the...
March is already in full swing. However, at IO we’re taking a look back at February. After all, we still owe you a Start-up of the Month! Each workday at IO you can follow those innovation-mad...
I spent the very last day of 2019 at Clos Lucé. The castle in the idyllic Loire region in France where Leonardo da Vinci spent the last years of his life. It had an impact on me. In the weeks that...
The Utrecht start-up Prolira has developed a method, called the DeltaScan, which determines with 90% certainty within a minute and a half whether a patient is experiencing delirium. A tremendous...
The ever-widening spread of the corona virus is dominating the news. It seems likely that a pandemic is inevitable. The world is in crisis. Yet history has taught us that it is precisely at these...
Technology plays an ever-increasing role in our lives. Every day, new technological innovations emerge that improve efficiency in traffic, healthcare or the office, for example. Onging improvement...
The ever-widening spread of the corona virus is dominating the news. It seems likely that a pandemic is inevitable. The world is in crisis. Yet history has taught us that it is precisely at these...
A Brazilian and a Dominican ruled in favor of Real Madrid in front of a ( potential) television audience of 600 million viewers across 182 countries. In the stands of Santiago Bernabéu, the...
Robots can pack things very quickly. That’s why they have become indispensable in distribution centers. But they’re still not very smart. That’s why humans can sometimes do their...
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