Your Sneak Preview of the Future
One of our best read stories this week was about mushroom leather. But pineapple leaves, apples, rotten mangos and raked leaves and twigs also provide an alternative to the leather industry.
Each week in this section we provide a follow-up to the best-read stories on our website. And today: Never again a national lockdown?
To what extent can geoengineering techniques provide a stopgap solution to global warming? Two Dutch universities explore options up in the clouds and stratosphere and in the oceans.
In the weekly ‘follow-up’ section we present a sequel to last week’s best-read article here on Innovation Origins. This week it was the story about […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Best read: ‘Make farmers produce less manure in order to prevent soil acidification.’
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 […]