Insights & stories

Why do businesses and organisations succeed so rarely in being truly innovative? Why is that a problem? And what solutions are there? Joachim De Vos, CEO of Living Tomorrow and TomorrowLab, explains in his new book ‘Why innovation fails" in great detail where the bottlenecks are and provides the keys to change course.

Our CEO, Joachim De Vos invited Fadel El Faraj, former Managing Director Q8 NorthWest Europe and current Managing Director of Q8 Italy, to talk about innovation, its challenges and lessons learned during the pandemic.

The VISION EQXX is part of a far-reaching Mercedes-Benz technology program aimed at breaking through technological barriers and lifting energy efficiency to new heights. It demonstrates the gains that are possible through rethinking the fundamentals from the ground up.

Smart mobility requires – amongst many other factors – a dense network of ‘mobility hubs’, where people can easily switch between transportation modes. But to make these hubs attractive enough to generate a real impact on the current mobility, environmental and spatial challenges, they will have to be much more than that.

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to physical devices which are connected to the internet to send and receive data and instructions. The popularity of the so-called IoT-devices is increasing every year, with more than 30 billion connected devices expected by 2023.

Against the social backdrop of ever-rising prices on the gas and electricity markets, the concept of the vehicle-to-grid deserves special attention. An energy transition is imminent, in which electric vehicles will play an increasingly important role, or at least: their batteries will.

There is no escape route: if we want to conduct an efficient climate policy, the future belongs to emission-free vehicles. Electric vehicles that charge quickly, moreover, for users who are often on the road for long periods of time.

Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works Lydia Peeters, together with Mayor of Vilvoorde Hans Bonte, inaugurated the first four 350 kW ultra-fast charging points of Europe’s largest high-power charging network IONITY on the Brussels Ring on the innovation campus of Living Tomorrow.

Smart Mobility envisions transportation and travel for all in a sustainable, safe and efficient way. It requires flawless collaboration between lots of players and many pieces of the puzzle. Today, electrification is one of the major driving forces accelerating a shift to Smart Mobility. What do we need to reach our goals? What parties are or should be involved? And what challenges and opportunities lie ahead? In a series of blogs, we aim to help companies, cities and organisations to map out the road to the mobility of tomorrow.

Stating that Living Tomorrow and hometown Vilvoorde have a special relationship, is quite the understatement. From its early beginnings now 26 years ago, the bond has matured into a full-fledged partnership of mutual added value. The new Living Tomorrow Innovation Campus will only add to that.