Dutch Minister-President Mark Rutte and HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands – Picture by Rijksvoorlichtingdienst – RVD.
Thursday, 13 October 2016, Mauritshuis, The Hague: Chairman of StartupDelta, HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (Constantijn van Oranje) held a tête-à-tête with the Dutch Minister-President and Minister of General Affairs, Mark Rutte to discuss governmental support to buttress up the scheme aiming at making The Netherlands a major international hub for startups and technology in Europe, matching Silicon Valley in California, USA.
As a whole StartupDelta is an initiative born out the chief innovation centres within the Kingdom of the Netherlands with the backing of the ministries of Economic Affairs and Education Culture and Science as well as the startup community at large. In fact, the governmental budget for 2017 includes funds to be made available for the development of established startups. Likewise it foresees the simplification of red tape at national and EU levels in order to make The Netherlands and the EU common market as a whole, an auspicious area for quality innovations, new technologies and investments.
Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, is one of the leaders and co-founders of the project currently revolutionising the startup eco-system in The Netherlands.
For further information:
StartupDelta: https://www.startupdelta.org
