Eindhoven Archieven - Innovation Origins

The sensor register: more insight into data collected about you

Posted by Linda Bak | Aug 10, 2018 | Cities

The municipality of Eindhoven is setting up a sensor register of all sensors in the city. The first part of the pilot is in full swing and will be extended this autumn. The main goal of the municipality is to make the data collection more transparent and more interactive. When you walk, cycle or drive through the city, your behaviour is measured by different sensors anyway. In Eindhoven, for example, there are sensors that measure traffic flows, but you can also find cameras, human counters and aggression meters. One sensor has a socially driven reason, while the other has...

Eurotech is “not only delivering our students as top engineers but also as top entrepreneurs”

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 30, 2018 | Cities, Featured, Munich

Alliance of Universities in Munich, Eindhoven, Copenhagen, Lausanne and Paris During the summer holidays, twenty European technology students from Eindhoven, Copenhagen, Lausanne, and Munich got together and went on a journey to upgrade their entrepreneurship and finance skills and to work on their business case. They already visited Copenhagen, Lausanne, and Munich (partner universities in the EuroTech Alliance, together with l’X Polytechnique in Paris) for several other important components that are involved in creating a business. Think about marketing, design thinking, customer development, market and competition analyses, communication, team formation and intellectual property (IP). The shared goal: show how...

TWICE – “We want to help grow young tech companies”

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 27, 2018 | Eindhoven

Around the giants of the Eindhoven tech scene – Philips, ASML, NXP – are hundreds of smaller fledgling companies, honing their ideas, and hoping to be the next big household name in high tech innovation. But what does it take to turn an idea into a success story? For nearly two decades, TWICE has been offering a home for such companies across the city of Eindhoven, providing them with the means of achieving success. A collaboration between various shareholders in the region (Brabants Ontwikkelings Maatschappij; the municipality of Eindhoven; TU/e; Brainport Development; Rabobank Eindhoven-Veldhoven), TWICE is focused on supporting...

Chinese regulator blocks acquisition of NXP by Qualcomm

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 26, 2018 | Eindhoven

The trade war between the United States and China has caused another victim: without the needed approval of the Chines regulator, Qualcomm cannot continue to acquire NXP. Today, the deadline for the Chinese regulator to give its approval has passed. All other supervisors were in agreement with the takeover. A bright spot for NXP is that Qualcomm has to pay a break-up fee of two billion dollars directly to NXP. In this way, Qualcomm compensates part of the damage for the energy that NXP put into the takeover. China has not given any reason for the lack of approval,...

Bambi Medical receives subsidy of €2.4 million

Posted by Frans van Beveren | Jul 25, 2018 | Eindhoven

The Eindhoven startup Bambi Medical received a subsidy of 2.4 million euros from the European Commission. This will enable the company to conduct clinical trials in six European countries to accelerate the launch of the wireless monitoring system for premature babies that the startup makes. Earlier this year, the start-up already received an investment of €4 million from a group of private investors. Founder and CEO Fabio Bambang Oetomo says he is proud of Bambi Medical’s team, “that brought the development of the company to such a high level and we received recognition from the European Commission in the form of...

Campuses in North Brabant (5): Brainport Industries Campus

Posted by Andriana Boyrikova | Jul 24, 2018 | Eindhoven, Featured

This is Part 5 of the series Campuses in North Brabant. In the next weeks, we will publish the profiles of all 8 innovation campuses that were mentioned in the recent study by Buck Consultants International (BCI). Every Tuesday we highlight one of them. Today we focus on Brainport Industries Campus. Here are all the articles that have already been published. Brainport Industries Campus is one of the twelve “real” campuses in startup phase in the Netherlands. It has taken the leap from idea to startup and is now aiming to become the world’s leading open supply chain for high-tech companies....

Swiss Meat Producer is investing in Dutch cultured meat company Mosa Meat

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 21, 2018 | Eindhoven, Featured

With a big help from Switzerland’s largest – real – meat producer, the production of cultured meat just received a major push forward. Through a Series A fundraising, Maastricht based Mosa Meat received 7.5 million euros, which will be used to develop an end-to-end process for cultured meat production at a significantly reduced cost. The endpoint of the funding will allow the company to prepare for the construction of a pilot production plant for the introduction of a premium product in 2021. An investment in cultured meat is a logical step for a company in the meat business, Lorenz Wyss,...

The perfect pair – Noah and Stella Vie visiting Munich

Posted by Christiane Manow-Le Ruyet | Jul 20, 2018 | Eindhoven, Featured

When two groups of students at the same university – TU Eindhoven – independently think about sustainable mobility concepts of the future, two different concepts emerge: the Stella Vie solar car (from Solar Team Eindhoven) and the Noah electric car (from team TU/ecomotive). Nevertheless, these ambitious young people share a common idea: sustainability and careful use of resources. More on Noah and team TU/ecomotive More on Stella Vie and Solar team Eindhoven Cities all over the world are like magnets. For example, Amsterdam and Munich will continue growing in the years to come. It is predicted that the Dutch metropolis will...

EuroTech Universities ask for more EU funding for Research & Innovation

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 20, 2018 | Eindhoven, Featured

To successfully translate Europe’s technology and science into innovations with societal impact, much more money is needed than the 100 billion the European Commission has now proposed in the Horizon Europe programme. EuroTech Universities, a collaboration between the Technological universities of Munich, Eindhoven, Lausanne, Paris, and Copenhagen, has composed a declaration in which it explains why “at least €120 billion, or even €160 billion” is needed. “The proposed budget increase for R&I to €100 billion in the Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027 is highly welcomed, but not ambitious enough to deliver the programme’s objectives of providing a major impetus...

Solliance is testing 72 meters of flexible solar cells in crash barrier

Posted by Bart Brouwers | Jul 19, 2018 | Eindhoven, Featured

For the first time in the world, flexible solar cells have been installed on a crash barrier. It is a stretch of 72 meters on a crash barrier next to the provincial road N194 near Heerhugowaard. It is a test with flexible foil with solar cells. With this pilot, research institute Solliance (based at High Tech Campus Eindhoven) and the province of North Holland are investigating whether energy can be generated in a safe and sustainable manner for road lighting and matrix boards, or for supply to the electricity grid. The trial lasts a year. Solar cells can be...

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