The government wants to take extra steps in the coming years to further improve the Dutch start-up and scale-up business climate. That is why 5 detailed ambitions have been set for financing, talent, tech jobs, growth to scale-ups and a focus on knowledge-intensive start-ups (deep tech).
Minister Adriaansens: “We have laid the foundations for an ambitious start-up and scale-up policy in recent years. We now want to make even better use of our innovative power. As a cabinet, we do this ourselves by directly investing hundreds of millions of euros in tech via the Deep Tech Fund, Dutch Future Fund and indirectly via National Growth Fund projects. And now is also the time to strengthen the government’s efforts together with private parties, especially when it comes to market capital, growth to scale-ups and deep tech. We need to invest more together.”
More financing and better access to market capital
To remain at the European top, more funding from the Netherlands itself and the EU must be made available for the scale-up phase. And the focus should be on knowledge-intensive start-ups that convert research into business, because that is where the best growth opportunities lie. Institutional investors are an indispensable link in this, but are too often lacking. The cabinet will mobilize them together with venture capital funds.
The government has also released € 38 million to continue the Early Phase Financing scheme. The so-called Seed Capital scheme of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy is also increasingly being used for deep tech. In addition, the minister is committed to improving and strengthening cooperation between financiers, so that starting entrepreneurs can find financing more easily.
Read the full article (in Dutch) on Rijksoverheid.nl.
