“Neelie Kroes start-ups to the Netherlands – update”

Neelie Kroes is for the next year and a half, a kind of ambassador of the Netherlands as a start-up country. The politician, until recently european Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, among other foreign start-ups to induce in the Netherlands to settle.

Kroes, the Netherlands will in the coming one and a half years ‘on the map as the European hub for start-ups”, let the Ministry of Economic Affairs to know in a statement. Kroes, who recently stopped as a european Commissioner, foreign start-ups to the Netherlands and the position of Dutch start-ups improve.

The politician will lead to a kind of platform with the name StartupDelta, that start-ups need help. The ministry of Economic Affairs promises to provide funding and ‘appropriate regulation’. So there may be new subisidieregelingen and can existing schemes be made more widely available. Also, from January 1 is a special visa for start-ups. “Who already has a business established, it can be easier to establish in the Netherlands”, said a spokesman of the ministry.

Kroes and her team, settling in Amsterdam, on the former marineterrein. The intention is that new companies will establish. Although the ‘start-up ambassador’ in the capital draws, is also partnered with the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven and Kennispark Twente.

Update, 09:11: More information about the support of the ministry added.