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What is AIM’s target?
AIM’s remit is to promote innovation, cooperation and new activity in a number of sectors. The sectors concerned are very promising and can all reinforce the position of Amsterdam in the:
- Creative industries, ICT and new media
- Life sciences
- Sustainability
- Trade and logistics
What does AIM do?
The Amsterdam Innovation Motor acts as a catalyst, generating initiatives in certain sectors in Amsterdam’s knowledge-based economy with partners in those sectors. The partners include institutions, businesses, government and social organisations.
In concrete terms, this means:
- Promoting knowledge-intensive enterprises, especially start-ups
- Profiling the Amsterdam area as a knowledge-intensive region
- Furthering cooperation between knowledge institutions, businesses and government
The Amsterdam area
Total number of inhabitants and jobs in the Amsterdam area cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants
total number of inhabitants in the Amsterdam area: 2,106,158
total number of jobs in the Amsterdam area: 1,001,610
How AIM works?
AIM promotes innovation, cooperation and activity, by:
- Catalysing - initiating, stimulating, inspiring, and actively making connections
- Facilitating - creating the right circumstances to give ideas and opportunities the space they need to develop
- Directing - ensuring that projects really work
- Informing - offering an overview of innovative initiatives and information about facilities for (and from) starters, and monitoring new developments
- Networking - providing a physical and virtual meeting place for people to find each other
Who are AIM’s partners?
The initiatives started by AIM will eventually be run by its partners in the different sectors. The partners include:
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- VU (Vrije Universiteit)
- Chamber of Commerce
- Amsterdam City Council
- Almere City Council
- Province of North Holland
- ING Bank
- ABN-AMRO
- Rabobank
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