3.9 Start-up funding for young entrepreneurs
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Access to information
The government developed a set of measures since 2015 in order to create a favourable environment for business creation. More information can be found on Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland; RVO). The agency helps entrepreneurs and organisations to invest, develop and expand their businesses and projects both in the Netherlands and abroad. It is a government agency which is part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
An important Dutch initiative was Startup Delta (2015 - 2022). It intended to strengthen, connect and grow the thriving and competitive start-up eco-system of the Netherlands, making it the best place to start and grow innovative companies. It was an initiative of the main innovation centres in The Netherlands, the ministries of Economic Affairs, and Education, Culture and Science and the start-up community. In 2023 the Evaluation Startup Delta and Techleap (Evaluatie Startup Delta en Techleap) was published. The evaluators concluded among ohers that the Dutch ecosystem for entrepreneurship had improved substantially from 2015 on, but also that improving the ecosystem is never finished. They suggested the Ministry of Economic Affairs to appoint an external motivator to boost an effective and efficient way to implement policy.
Access to capital
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency offers funding for entrepreneurs, also specifically for young entrepreneurs. For more information on funding opportunities, see their Subsidy and funding guide. The agency helps entrepreneurs and organisations to invest, develop and expand their businesses and projects both in the Netherlands and abroad. It is a government agency which is part of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.