K3D has won the Additive World Design for Additive Manufacturing Challenge for the second consecutive time. During the 8th edition of the Additive World Conference that took place online because of...
How do floating solar panels work in practice and what are the consequences for the environment? What is the influence of waves and wind on this form of energy generation? A consortium recently...
The launch of the new European satellite ‘Copernicus Sentinel-6’ will most likely take place later than the date originally planned on at the end of 2020. It’s to measure e.g. the...
Researchers from Sweden’s Uppsala University have taken a big step forward towards the development of the proton battery: Their fully biological proton battery not only provides sustainable...
The climate is changing and we are all going to notice the consequences, all over the world. There are plenty of plans to prepare for this or even to reverse the process. But as an alderman for a...
The corona crisis presents companies and institutions with all kinds of new problems. Solutions are more than welcome in the medical sector, but also beyond. For example, in education. Of course,...
Martijn Koerts, marketing manager of InnoEnergy in Eindhoven (an organisation that invests money from the European Commission and private financiers in innovative start-ups in the energy field) is...
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is building a globally unique experimental plant that converts CO2 (carbon dioxide) from the atmospheric air into a pure and industrially...
Researchers from Leipzig in Germany have developed a method based on radio waves that enables them to protect wooden museum exhibits against harmful insects such as woodworm. It does not require any...
Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is...
Entrepreneur Martin Leban from the start-up OneTwoThreeZero comes from a family of hair care manufacturers in Slovenia. It bothered him that shampoo and conditioner, as an example, are almost always...
For the very first time, a consignment of the innovative raw material Kaumera has been delivered. The Zutphen-based plant in The Netherlands supplied 20,000 liters for use as a biostimulant. A...
Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is...
Entrepreneur Marie Mélinon started her own company Pana Nappy that picks up (with a bicycle that has a front crate), washes and supplies nappies that you can use over and over again. When her nephew...
Ingelou Stol, co-founder of Female Tech Heroes has seen this initiative skyrocket over the past year. Yet it’s not just supposed to be a bunch of women discussing issues, so now it’s the...
Ask any foreigner for the absolute Dutch highlights and chances are high that he or she will mention quite a few from the province of South Holland. The port of Rotterdam, three top universities,...
You can keep vegetables and fruit fresh for longer, depending on which ones you store together. Ethylene is responsible for that, something that some vegetable foods naturally emit. Researchers at...
Wattsun makes battery systems for on-site events such as music festivals. But also for construction projects where workers are currently mainly using diesel generators. Wattsun batteries don’t...
”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...
Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is...
After driving past a mountain of discarded pots once used to plant hops for brewing beer during the economic crisis of 2014, Eva Štraser started her own company Evegreen which makes bioplastic plant...
Katharina Unger is active in the alternative protein market with her start-up company Livin Farms. It is precisely the protein derived from mealworms that she’s aiming to make more readily...
”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...
Wait a few more years and you’ll see that electric cars will be the equivalent of petrol cars. That’s as far as Total Cost of Usage (TCU) is concerned – and without government...
Utrecht-based start-up DiManEx offers a digital platform that allows large producers of machines such as electronics manufacturers and the transport industry to order spare parts. These are not...
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