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Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM)

Business focus: AIM acts as a catalyst, generating initiatives in certain sectors in Amsterdam’s knowledge-based economy, with partners from those sectors. These partners include institutions, businesses, government and social organisations.

 AIM

Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM)
De Ruyterkade 5
1013 AA Amsterdam
Website Amsterdam Innovation Motor
E-mail Amsterdam Innovation Motor
T +31 (0)20 524 11 20
F +31 (0)20 524 11 34

Employees in Amsterdam: 15
Employees in R&D: 0
Year of foundation: 2004

Company profile

The Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM) has been set up to help preserve and strengthen the Amsterdam area’s authoritative position in the knowledge-based economy. AIM is an initiative of the Amsterdam Knowledge Network (KennisKring Amsterdam), and was established in 2004.

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

Science and Technologies or Services

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
  • Implementing
    until project self-sufficiency or transfer
  • 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

Keywords

  • Innovation
  • Cooperation
  • Amsterdam region
  • Creative industry
  • ICT
  • Life Sciences
  • Sustainability
  • Trade and logistics

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By Arjen Brussaard

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