Jan Rotmans, professor of Transitology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, was last week's guest at Talk of the Town where he talked about leadership in times of crisis. According to him, many large companies in the Netherlands are making the same mistake again in this crisis: they are applying the brakes instead of using the corona crisis to change now. The same [...]
Ioniqa, one of our National Icons, is developing a new chemical upcycling method. The end product is a high-quality raw material equivalent to new plastic from oil. With it, 25 percent of global plastic production can be infinitely recycled, with 75 percent less CO2 emissions. Thanks to the Corona Bridging Loan (COL), the startup is back up and running quickly after the corona crisis to get the [...]
Last week was the grand finale of the TU/e contest 2020, an initiative of TU/e innovation Space. The TU/e contest is innovation competition for entrepreneurial engineers with international ambitions! The teams meet successful entrepreneurs and leading international companies that guide them on their way from dream to demo to global market. The TU/e contest 2020 competition [...]
The Dutch Technology Week (DTW) unfortunately cannot take place physically, but the organization is organizing an online edition from June 8 to 13! As the organization writes on its website: "This year everything is different, but technology and its numerous applications are also now impossible to imagine away from our daily existence, our life and work. In this [...]
"Did you know that the lightest office in the Netherlands is at High Tech Campus no 10?" said Maarten Voorhuis of Sparckel part of Fronthouse Innovative Concepts B.V. At least we did, because the daylight lamps are on in his office in our hub Mu at the HTCE! In Sparckel's office at High tech Campus 10, there are standing and hanging [...]
On consultancy.nl this week we read an appealing article by Rogier Offerhaus about change in these times: 'Transformation is the new normal'. Could we have seen this crisis coming is the big question? Rogier Offerhaus of strategic consultancy People Change says it was certain that another crisis was coming, [...]
In Eindhoven sits the super specialized laboratory of Altum RF (located in hub Twinning of Twice Eindhoven on the TU/e Campus). As you might expect, the name stands for "high radio frequencies. Because that's what they do at Altum RF: they develop tiny chips for antennas that can capture and amplify signals, which are transmitted through high frequencies [...]
EZ Factory, supplier of mobile apps used in production environments (located in hub Beta of Twice Eindhoven on the High Tech Campus) has secured a second capital injection of 720,000 euros! The investors see great potential in the innovative startup, which already has well-known clients such as Heineken, FrieslandCampina and FN Steel. Especially the focus on the user perspective [...]
A well-known player in the precision engineering market, AKKA opens the doors of the Excellence Center for Precision Mechanics (EPCM) in the Netherlands this week! AKKA operates at the technological forefront where electrical and mechanical engineering converge with the digital and connected world. Particularly in the areas of Manufacturing, Life Sciences & Food, Energy & Telco [...]
Smart social distancing requires smart solutions. With many measures relaxed, the discipline of keeping one and a half meters of distance is becoming increasingly difficult. That's why DigitalAlerts, based in Twice | hub Beta at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, developed the Buffr: a device, slightly larger than a button, that emits a sound signal as soon as persons within [...].
