Brainport Eindhoven
Once a rural area, Brainport Eindhoven in the southeast of Brabant is now a hotspot for R&D, IT, and high-tech businesses. Brainport Eindhoven plays a key role in Dutch industry and serves as an engine for economic growth. The technologies developed here change lives and make our futures better, safer, and cleaner.
Brainport Eindhoven excels at inventing, developing, and integrating the world’s most complex high-tech machines, systems, parts, and products with the utmost precision and unprecedented accuracy. Take, for example, lithography machines that produce ever smaller chips for 80% of all smartphones in the world. The next generation chips - faster and even more durable - are based on photonics (light energy) and these are currently being developed in Brainport Eindhoven.
Other essential fields in which typical Brainport inventions have a meaningful position are healthcare, automotive, food, and energy.
Brainport Eindhoven encompasses 21 municipalities and provides for more than 436,000 jobs.
Hart van Brabant
From the elevated sandy soils near Belgium to the riverbeds of the Meuse and Walloon rivers, the Hart van Brabant (Heart of Brabant) region straddles a breathtaking stretch of park-like landscapes. It is a region marked by the Burgundian lifestyle of the 9 municipalities surrounding Tilburg, along the Leisure Boulevard from Hilvarenbeek to Heusden.
It is a great place to work, live, and enjoy life in a setting reputed for its logistics, healthcare, leisure economy, and aeronautical and industrial maintenance. It is no coincidence that those sectors are the focal points of Midpoint Brabant, an alliance in which the administrators of Heart of Brabant have joined forces with businesses and knowledge institutions. Entrepreneurs, educators, and the government work together on social innovation, an approach to regional development unrivalled in Europe and one that is attracting international attention.
Regio West Brabant
West Brabant consists of 19 municipalities, over 720,000 inhabitants, and around 60,000 companies on 1,740 km². It is an excellent region to both work in and live in. Situated halfway between the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, and backed up by excellent infrastructure, a well-educated workforce, and an innovative business climate, Regio West Brabant offers the perfect location for all types of enterprise.
Agrifood Capital
AgriFood Capital’s mission is to develop northeast Brabant into a leading region in agrifood. The 7,000 agrifood companies provide 52,300 jobs for the region. Industry, public authorities, and knowledge institutions collaborate to achieve growth and innovation in agrifood, creating a smarter, healthier, and more sustainable world for tomorrow. AgriFood Capital aims to become a top-class cluster, recognized for its future-proof employment market, strong entrepreneurship, high-impact innovations, resilient environment, and high quality of life.