Follow-up: How shipping will become greener
If The Netherlands intends to meet the Paris climate targets, sea and inland shipping must also commit to them. As in become climate-neutral vessels. In the Port of Rotterdam, a number of companies...
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Follow-up: Become a unicorn? Get through the valley of death first
In our weekly ‘follow-up’ column we feature a sequel to the best-read article of the past week. This week: Is Pandora Intelligence to become the next Dutch unicorn? Unicorn? At first...
Best read: Fish poop makes great plant manure
As early as the early 1990s, Adri Bout had already realized that fishing ‘would become a niche, something quite special’. Bout managed to set up a successful fish farm after plenty of...
Best read: Write off diesel trucks? Not necessary according to DAF
Increasingly more people are switching to electric mobility or are thinking about doing just that within the next few years. More and more public transport buses also run on electricity. Last week,...
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Best read: Avoid waste? This is how you make clothes without cotton
A shirt made from sour milk flakes doesn’t sound particularly appealing. Yet this is exactly what microbiologist and fashion designer Anke Domaske does. She developed a sustainable method to...
Best read: Piggyback on Amsterdam’s success? Eindhoven won’t even go there
Eindhoven is doing well across the border. They even talk about ‘the wonder of Eindhoven’ in South Africa, China and Prague, according to mayor John Jorritsma. At the High Tech Next...
Best read: Professor says – ‘Don’t panic about the rise in sea levels’
Soaking wet feet through flooded streets. We are increasingly faced with heavy rains or periods of drought as a result of climate change. The municipality of Eindhoven is taking all kinds of...
Best read: why a German-Flemish-Dutch megacity is not such a good idea
More and more people are moving into the city. In fact, in the coming years megacities are emerging where more than thirty million people live and work. It is by no means inconceivable that between...
Best read: only a German-Flemish-Dutch megacity can take on the competition
Asphalt, roads, rocks, buildings – that’s how Cees Jan Pen describes Veldhoven, ASML’s home base. As an economic geographer, Pen is an independent member of the SER in the province...
Best read: Navigate a busy city? Make self-driving cars more aggressive’
Trams, cats, colliding cyclists – they can make it pretty difficult for self-driving cars. Especially in a city like Amsterdam. Carlo van de Weijer, director of the recently opened Eindhoven...
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...
Best read: How to live in a more climate-neutral way
Earth Overshoot Day fell on July the 29th this year. On that day, we had used up all the natural resources for this year that the earth is capable of providing in a single year. That means that from...
Best read: doing puzzles with the king
Did you see it? How King Willem-Alexander was as happy as a kid when he finally managed to get the coin into the right spot. With two thumbs up and a grin from ear to ear, the king almost made a...
Best read: 3D printing, from eliminating food waste to personalized medicines
Houses, bridges and even organs. Using a 3D printer, you can make all of it. The market for 3D printing products and technologies will expand to over 22 billion euros by 2030. According to figures...
Best read: ‘Farmers must produce less manure in order to stop soil acidification.’
Best read: ‘Make farmers produce less manure in order to prevent soil acidification.’
Best read: Will we be using wireless internet via Li-Fi, Wi-Fi or something else?
Once again the articles about the pros and cons of driving electric cars scored the highest this week. However, since we don’t want to discuss the same subject every week in the ‘Best...
Best read: ‘Making children work in mines for electric car batteries is not sustainable.’
Last week Auke Hoekstra’s column scored more than 7000 readers. Hoekstra used it to tear into the German research institutes which regularly put the advantages of electric driving into...
Best read: great, those electrical buses, but a power cut is on its way
Good news in a week when air quality is not that doing that well due to the forest fires in the Amazon. Within five years, Dutch public transport companies expect to have 75 percent of their buses...
Best read: how a radioactive cloud from 2017 is a still a source of concern
Most of the clicks on Innovation Origins this week went to the Start-up of the Month competition, where five European start-ups competed for this coveted title. This is logical, because next year...
Best read: the Netherlands, land of bicycles – but what about the rest of Europe?
One heat record after another was broken this week. In order to stay cool, everyone who had air-conditioning turned the temperature down a notch or two. But that has its price. We all use about 20...
Best read: when click stats predict the future …
Last week was one of the best in the history of Innovation Origins in terms of the number of visitors. Our articles have been read more than 25,000 times on our website. Soon we’ll be hitting...
