1030 Innovation @ van Gogh immersive experience & Andy Warhol Exhibition

The SARS-Cov2 pandemic holds the world in its firm grip for over a year now. With restaurants, cinemas, hotels and other cultural institutions mostly closed in the last months, opportunities for gathering inspiration fell flat. Therefore, our team decided to do a team activity every month (if possible). As soon as museums in Austria were … Read more 1030 Innovation @ van Gogh immersive experience & Andy Warhol Exhibition

INDIVIDUALLY CUSTOMIZED IMPLANTS FOR BROKEN BONES

Customized implants for broken bones

Researchers at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence have developed a technique that can be used to make customized implants for patients with broken calf or shin bones to improve the healing process and reduce complications. Using methods from the fields of engineering mechanics, informatics and image processing, any kind of … Read more INDIVIDUALLY CUSTOMIZED IMPLANTS FOR BROKEN BONES

SKI MADE FROM ALGAE-BASED BIOPLASTICS

WNDR Apline Ski made from bioplastics

The start-up WNDR Alpine has replaced the environmentally harmful, petroleum-based plastics usually used in skis with algae-based bioplastics. Specifically, microalgae are genetically engineered to produce all types of different oils when grown and fermented in steel tanks. Much like a brewery produces beer. These oils are then used as building blocks to create new, biobased … Read more SKI MADE FROM ALGAE-BASED BIOPLASTICS

TURNING WASTE INTO 3D-PRINTED FURNITURE

The start-up Model No. Furniture creates tailor-made 3D-printed furniture items using an upcycling process involving sustainably sourced agricultural waste. The process uses different types of waste, such as maize husks and sugar cane, which are turned into biopolymers and plant resins, and then 3D-printed into various items of furniture like tables. A digital showroom enables … Read more TURNING WASTE INTO 3D-PRINTED FURNITURE

START-UPS MADE IN AUSTRIA: ROOM4PHYSIO

Room4physio Team

????: Magdalena Schauer This month’s start-up shows us that a global crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, despite all odds bears a lot of opportunities as well. Room4Physio was founded during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. The lack of remote solutions for physiotherapies during the pandemic led our Interviewpartner Oliver Alf and … Read more START-UPS MADE IN AUSTRIA: ROOM4PHYSIO