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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.
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Amsterdam Innovation Motor (AIM) Employees in Amsterdam: 15 |
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:
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Promoting knowledge-intensive enterprises, especially start-ups
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Profiling the Amsterdam area as a knowledge-intensive region
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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