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The Hague, the international city of peace and justice, is also located in South Holland. Leiden University has a campus in the city with a focus on international law, peace and security, globali sation and international relations, politics, public administration and public finance, and urban issues. Utrecht Utrecht currently generates the second-largest number of startup jobs per capita. Some of the province’s biggest employers include bol.com (webshop), AFAS Software (administration soft ware) and Ultimaker (3D printers). Important innovative industries are health, fintech and e-commerce. Utrecht University is located in the provincial capital of the same name. More than 36,000 stu dents study at the university every year, spread over seven faculties. North Holland With more than 3,400 startups and 51,600 star tup jobs, North Holland represents 38 percent of the startup workforce in the Netherlands. Suc cessful companies such as payment platforms Adyen and Mollie, as well as the online supermar ket Picnic, were launched there. The province also houses high-impact startup employers, including EVBox (charging stations) and VanMoof (electric bicycles). The province’s particular strengths lie in the fintech, travel, transportation, and health industries. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an aca demic source of knowledge. With more than 14,000 international students and researchers from more than 100 countries, the UvA offers one of the largest ranges of English-taught Master’s programmes in Europe. The Vrije Uni versiteit Amsterdam (VU) has more than 31,000 students. Another asset of the Dutch capital is the many national and international venture capitalists and incubators headquartered there, which provide the necessary funding to grow the startup eco system year after year.

material science and additive industries. Maas tricht houses the Health Campus, while Heerlen houses the Smart Services Campus, a commu nity of entrepreneurs, researchers and students who jointly develop new smart digital services to improve the quality of life. Healthy and sustaina ble food is central to Brightlands Campus Green port Venlo. Well-known startups in Limburg are S+dB (seed embedding), Aerial Precision (3D sensor modu les for drones), Mosa Meat (growing meat), and NPROXX (hydrogen storage). Zeeland and Flevoland Although Zeeland has the fewest startups in the Netherlands, a lot is expected from them in the future, particularly in the local food and transport industries. At Campus Zeeland, companies, knowledge and research institutions and governments have joined forces to increase the innovative power of the province. This partnership mainly focuses on economic sectors that owe their origins and advantages to the water surrounding Zeeland: industry and maintenance, ports and logistics, agrofood and seafood, water and energy, and healthcare and tourism. The province of Flevoland is comparable in terms of new business development. In recent years, the first steps have been taken with a number of hubs in the field of food tech, such as Flevo Cam pus, a knowledge institute that links science, education, entrepreneurship, and policy to find fresh solutions for urban food dilemmas. South Holland Let’s now have a closer look at the Amsterdam Delta, which brings together South Holland, Utrecht and North Holland. South Holland is mainly a hub for impact-focused startups, which include 62 companies that focus on clean and affordable energy. The companies located there can draw on a large and diverse talent pool from three Top 100 uni versities: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Delft University of Technology and Leiden University.

Gelderland and Overijssel It is no surprise that Gelderland is the cradle of food tech start-ups, as Wageningen University and Research (WUR) is located here. It is one of the world’s top universities in the field of food, ranking first in agriculture and forestry and fifth in environmental sciences. A number of noteworthy spin-offs are Rival Foods (plant-based alternatives for meat), revyve (microbial ingredients) and Plant-e (elec tricity generated with plants). These companies show that Gelderland can play a role for impact companies. There are also newcomers such as Elestor (energy storage) and Enzyre (near patient blood coagulation analysis). Radboud University Nijmegen, a broad-based uni versity with more than 24,000 students, is also located in Gelderland. Overijssel stands out with its various healthtech hubs spread across the Netherlands. Health tech startups provided 30 percent of startup jobs in the province in 2022. Noteworthy companies are Ecare (smart ICT solutions for nursing home care, home care and care for the disabled), QuiX Quantum (quantum photonic processors) and IamFluidics (microparticle production). Limburg Limburg benefits from its central location from a multinational perspective. The southernmost province of the Netherlands is located in the heart of the ‘Eindhoven, Leuven and Aachen Technology Triangle’ (ELAT) with quick access to the German market. Maastricht University, with more than 20,000 students (of whom 56 percent are international students), is a broad-based university with six faculties. However, it is not the only source of fundamental knowledge and talent. KU Leuven, Belgium, and RWTH Aachen University, Germany, are also located in this Euroregion. The close collaboration between knowledge institutes and the business community can be seen at the four Brightlands campuses. The Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Ge leen is a leading chemistry hub with expertise in

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