Steef Blok won the 2019 High Tech Piek Award on Thursday night. Blok received this award for his contribution to the high tech and start-up scene in the Brainport region. Steef Blok is in charge of...

Students of today are the engineers of the future. They are facing major societal challenges in areas such as sustainability and the environment. But what is it like to work on a groundbreaking...

There are more ways to get from A to B than with a car you bought yourself. Not that this automobile of yours would have to be scrapped immediately, but sometimes a combination of means of transport...

Economic growth in Brainport Eindhoven was again stronger last year than in the rest of the Netherlands (3.3% versus 2.6%). However, the differences are narrowing. Regional growth is mainly driven...

Smart Cities are hot. This week a large delegation of Dutch civil servants and entrepreneurs is in Barcelona for the world’s largest congress on this subject. Today there were 466 participants...

In the coming years, Eindhoven Airport will focus on innovation instead of expansion. At the beginning of this month, the Minister of Infrastructure and Public Works, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, decided...

Good ideas are pouring in which are set to improve the city. Usually these are combined with the availability of digital information that is passed on very promptly so residents can move around...

If you want to keep the talent pool for your region well-filled, you have to start young and throw the net wide open. That’s exactly what the Young Brainport Summer School, which introduces a...

Investments in start-ups and scale-ups from the Brainport Eindhoven region increased significantly in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period in 2018 and 2017. According to research by...

An administrative agreement has been signed with the provincial authorities: https://www.brabant.nl/politiek-en-bestuur/bestuursakkoord-2019-2023 Politicians pride themselves on the fact that in the...

(This article was also published on Cursor.) Thie coming weeks, Solar Team Eindhoven hopes to pull off its first few meters with the fourth and newest edition of their solar powered family car,...

Minister Kajsa Ollongren (Home Affairs) of the Netherlands supports the initiatives around Brainport Smart District in the city of Helmond, where residents can get rent reductions in exchange for...

The reservation of land by the municipality of Eindhoven and the project developer for the spectacular Dutch Mountains architecture project attracted the most visitors to Innovation Origins this...

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...

“Precisely because things are going so well in Brainport Eindhoven, it is important to link the power of today to the challenges of tomorrow. According to Arnold Stokking, Managing Director Industry...

We recently had a discussion with a group of people about the future of our region, and what the long-term goals and challenges could be. What are our strengths, where is development heading, and...

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...

Integrating, blending in, embedding yourself in your new region and community – it’s not always obvious for the dozens of new companies that come to Brainport Eindhoven from far away...

Brainport Eindhoven is doing well. The region is economically successful, the appreciation from the outside is high, nationally as well as globally. But at the same time there is still much room for...

In April it will be three years since Eindhoven signed an agreement with the renowned German research institute Fraunhofer. The signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding had three objectives: a...

Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in...

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...

To assess the logic of closer ties between Eindhoven and Austin, Texas, a fact-finding mission will go from Brainport to the United States in March. The visit will take place during the South by...

Ask any Eindhoven citizen what he or she knows about Austin, and maybe one or two might know that it’s a city in Texas, but that will be about it. Yes, there will be some nerds or music fans who...

Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in...