Partners / founders

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The Department represents an enterprising Netherlands with a view to sustainability. We are committed to arrange an excellent business climate. By creating the right conditions and giving entrepreneurial space to innovate and grow. By focusing on our natural environment. To encourage cooperation between researchers and entrepreneurs. This way we build our leading positions in agriculture, industry, services and energy and we continue to invest in a strong and durable Netherlands.

Zuid-Holland is a lively and multi-faceted province. Covering nearly 3,000 km2 and home to 3.5 million people, it is the most densely populated province in the Netherlands. The province contains the world-renowned universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam and their associated major knowledge centres, such as the Leiden Bio Science Park and Delft’s Science Port Holland. The major cities of Rotterdam and The Hague, the Port of Rotterdam and the greenhouses of Westland testify to the province’s enormous economic drive and make Zuid-Holland an important contributor to the economy of the Netherlands.

The Randstad has a few years back are in the top five of Europe’s metropolitan regions. That is the ambition of the eight Randstad authorities: four provinces (North and South Holland, Utrecht and Flevoland) and the four major Randstad cities (The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Utrecht). The eight have agreed on a joint program: Opportunities for West. The program is largely funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

TU Delft collaborates with a large number of other educational and research institutes within the Netherlands and abroad and has a reputation for high-quality teaching and research. TU Delft has extensive contacts with governments, trade organisations, consultancies, the industry and small and medium-sized companies.

Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. By connecting its unique competences in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences DSM is driving economic prosperity, environmental progress and social advances to create sustainable value for all stakeholders simultaneously.

Our motto “Partnering Excellence in R&D, Production and Commercialization is Key to success” mirrors exactly how we build our membership along the i) production and ii) development-oriented value chains:



The production-oriented value chain starts with the agro and silvicultural industry, continues with feedstock providers and bio-/chemical producers and ends with consumer industries. Our cluster strategy integrates professional excellence from all these industrial sectors. In fact, our cluster includes agricultural institutions, producers of renewable resources, bulk and fine chemical companies as well as consumer industries.

The BE-Basic Foundation is an international public-private partnership that develops industrial biobased solutions to build a sustainable society. As we want to switch from fossil fuels to biomass in the near future new technologies and insights are required for all industries that provide us with food, chemicals, energy and materials.

Biotech Campus Delft is building on Delft’s existing competences and position as a world leader in biotechnology development. Biotech Campus Delft is an initiative of DSM Delft, Delft University of Technology, the City of Delft and the Province of South Holland, a unique public-private cluster with access to high-level knowledge and trained professionals.

Delft is a city full of culture, events, education, health and business. Delft can be considered to be the true birthplace of microbiology, thanks to the pioneering contributions of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Martinus Beijerinck.

A stunning skyline, lively events, a lively nightlife and many different cultures. But there are also challenges that are characteristic for a large city. Therefore, your work will be different each day. More than 12,000 officers work together to achieve a city in which life, work, business, recreation and living together is good!

The Hague is the third largest city in the Netherlands. The Hague has nearly 490 thousand inhabitants and is situated on an area of ​​98.20 km2. The municipality consists of only one city: The Hague.