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Innovation
Are you a startup or scale-up wanting to develop and get in touch with the business community in the Delfzijl/Eemshaven region? Are you already a member the business community in this area and want to innovate? Groningen Seaports would be pleased to make the connection!
Our aim is to stimulate and develop innovation and utilities. It is our ambition to create new business activity and economic growth and to improve the business climate in the seaports. Innovation has an important role to play.
Innovation takes many forms. A new product or process, or innovations and smart adaptations to existing facilities. With a great deal of flexibility and entrepreneurship, we are accustomed to responding quickly to market developments. In doing so, we create new connections literally and figuratively!
Various options
In the northern Netherlands, there are various accelerator and incubator programmes for new businesses, startups, or scale-ups. Here you see just a few examples:
The area also offers various multitenant buildings with offices and the option of flexible workplaces in the Delfzijl and Eemshaven areas.
Subsidy opportunities
– Subsidy startup fund | SNN
– Chemport Catalyser | Chemport Europe
Contact
Groningen Seaports employee Laura Leeuwen (+31 6 20611255) will be able to put you in touch with the right partners or contact persons.
Attractive location for startups and scale-ups
Ambitious startups and scale-ups are extremely important to a region’s economic development. They create dynamism and innovation, and attract talented people, often with a technological slant. In the Groningen Seaports management area, there have been and still are a number of successful pilots.
Not least due to the supply of pilot and demo facilities, the port area of Delfzijl and Eemshaven is ideally suited to the startup sector. For example, chemical company Avantium uses the site of Nobian (formerly AkzoNobel) for a pilot factory. These days, Avantium is actually located in Delfzijl with a commercial factory.
Chemport Innovation Center (CIC)
Space for laboratories or a demo plant is also available on other industrial parks. In Delfzijl, a former factory hall was converted specifically for scale-ups: the Chemport Innovation Center (CIC). The CIC is there to facilitate, stimulate, and support startups and scale-ups in the Chemport region to further develop their sustainable, innovative products to scale up to the construction of their own plant in the short or medium term. By now, various parties have used or are still using the CIC:
Contact us
Do you have questions or would you like more information?
Hendrik van der Ploeg
Site manager CIC
