Brabant, The Netherlands - Europe's Heart of High Tech Solutions

"Easy Access to Markets, Technology and Partners"

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February 2009

The Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) or the Brabant Development Society, along with the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA), organized an executive forum in Bangalore to invite Indian IT and product design firms to invest in Brabant, The Netherlands, referred to as Europe's Heart of High Tech Solutions. The forum had several notable Dutch business names as speakers to highlight the regions' unique advantages. Brabant is the most intensive R&D region in the Netherlands, with 17,000 people engaged in it, and ranks first in the number of high-tech patents. Brabant offers Indian firms access to new markets, technologies and partners in Western Europe and the advantages of a qualified labour pool, renowned research institutes and universities and available test facilities.
Mr. Robert V Schipper, Executive Director, NFIA India, said that given the slowdown, the time is right for Indian companies to take advantage and establish their presence in the Netherlands.

Visitors to the event queue up to register

There were plenty of opportunities for networking and exploring partnerships

Speakers

Rutger Koopmans, Chairman Dutch Trade Board India
Working Group, addresses the audience

Alderman Bert Pauli from the Municipality
of 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant

Marcel de Haan, Senior Manager, Noord-Brabant
Development Agency (BOM)

Eelko Brinkhoff, Project Director, BOM

Rajiv Kumar, Tata Consultancy Services

The audience listens with rapt attention and interest

Jelle Kroes, Attorney at Law, Everaert Advocaten
Immigration Lawyers and Robert V Schipper,
Executive Director, NFIA India

The panel fields questions from an enthusiastic audience: (L-R) Rutger Koopmans, Bert Pauli,
Eelko Brinkhoff, Marcel de Haan, Rajiv Kumar, Gopal Ramanathan, Partner, Global Chairman,
KPMG Transaction Services, Jelle Kroes and Robert V Schipper