In 2018, companies, institutions and higher education in the Netherlands spent approximately 16.7 billion euros on Research and Development (R&D) with their own and hired staff. This is the...
Only a universal law on rules of conduct applicable to robots and the use of artificial intelligence can protect humankind against their brutal abuse, so said director Carlo van de Weijer of the...
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...
”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...
The world’s largest start-up campus is located at a former train station in the heart of Paris. With a thousand budding entrepreneurs on 34,000 m2 of floor space, France is putting itself on...
In the train from his hometown Den Hoorn to his work in Eindhoven at the Fontys Paramedische Hogescholen, Tim Gerbrands scrambled together an excel file, hoping his students could take it further....
Medical imaging technologies allow specialists to look inside the human body in order to diagnose or monitor certain conditions. Various methods enable the visualization of specific parts of our...
Eindhoven is one of the three demonstration cities participating in the European climate research project that will be experimenting for five years with projects which make the city climate-adaptive...
The Brabant city of Eindhoven, the Italian city of Genova and the Finnish city of Tampere have been appointed as demonstration cities for experiments on a major livability study to be carried out by...
After three years of prototyping with Additive Industries’ MetalFAB1 in Taufkirchen (near Munich), Airbus’ daughter company APWORKS has decided to scale up to series production for its...
The Netherlands is the cycling country of the world. The Dutch have nothing to complain about when it comes to the construction and maintenance of bike paths. The rest of the world is also working...
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been awarded once again! So it’s high time we take a closer look at the winners and what we can expect from these start-ups in the coming years. Today:...
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...
On average, cars will cost about 3,000 to 5,000 Euros more by the year 2025. That is at least what Audi boss Bram Schot explained on Dutch radio last weekend. As the reason for this increase, the...
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...
The fully-grown start-up MapCreator is conquering the map-making world from the centre of Eindhoven. The company provides custom made, easy, fast and accessible mapping solutions for your business....
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 Eindhoven University of Technology should promote itself much more clearly as the example of the innovative university. According to Dr Daria Tataj, Eindhoven has everything to grow into a...
The ten winners of the European Startup Prize for Mobility 2019 will be pitching their innovations at this year’s ITS Congress, which will be held in Brainport Eindhoven in June. The mobility...
As head of innovation for the Shanghai-based XNode powered by HighTechXL, Luuk Eliëns has devoted the past two years to helping to build scalable tech companies in China. Speaking at the recent...
Aircision, a deep-tech venture from the Eindhoven-based start-up accelerator HighTechXL, is ready to test its laser-based 5G communications technology. This will be the first test of Free Space...
She more or less by chance became a teacher, made a name for herself with the Basisboek Neuromarketing and is the associate lecturer and the head of the research group Smart Marketing & Strategy...
The 16 Flemish influencers who were lured to Eindhoven in September 2018 were not paid a penny for this. In fact, when they got on the bus they didn’t even know where they would end up. It was...
Siemens has taken over the global leading position from Huawei in terms of the number of patent applications. Whereas the Chinese company was by far the most innovative company in the world in 2017,...
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