Connect and strengthen,
impact for life
In Key Region Leiden, within a radius of just seven kilometers, you’ll find the Leiden Bio Science Park, NL Space Campus, and Unmanned Valley. Together, they form a world-class innovative ecosystem. Here, work is underway on no fewer than eight of the ten key technologies identified in the National Technology Strategy. Nowhere else in the Netherlands will you find such a high concentration of innovative companies, which—together with the research institutions—employ more than 30,000 people. It’s a unique convergence of knowledge, talent, and entrepreneurship, where people are working every day to build the technologies and solutions of tomorrow.
The ecosystem consists not only of knowledge-intensive industries and large companies. In fact, it is the broad spectrum of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that forms the backbone of the local economy and provides 90,000 jobs. The region’s strength therefore lies in the synergy between knowledge-intensive companies, the broader SME sector, knowledge institutions, civil society organizations, and government agencies.
Our partnership can quickly turn opportunities into results—with direct communication and plenty of energy. We’re driven to make a social impact at every level: for the region, for South Holland, for the Netherlands, for Europe, and for life! Science for life.