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The Netherlands lags behind in investing in areas that are central for future innovation
a small talent pool and a homogeneous startup sector, insufficient market access and a gap between technology and new businesses.
The Challenge We have identified five things we need to fix to empower tech leaders to futureproof the Netherlands and create the platform to scale innovations: insufficient availability of capital, a small talent pool and a homogeneous startup sector, insufficient market access and the gap between technology and new businesses. The Netherlands currently leads in many international rankings¹ due to past achievements in areas such as infrastructure, stable institutions and regulatory frameworks. The country seems to be well placed to remain an innovation leader. However, a closer look at the rankings and benchmarks reveals a less positive picture. The Netherlands lags behind in investing in areas that are central for future innovation². The main areas of concern are the speed of embedding technology, access to markets, capital, talent and the ability to scale successfully. We mapped indicators which determine success factors for empowering future tech leaders along twelve axes (see Fig 1. spider diagram below). The diagram shows the 2019 benchmark. It compares the state of the Dutch ecosystem to the best ecosystems in Europe, pinpointing the areas of concern and level of improvement required. This picture is indicative of the challenge, however it is static. European ecosystems are evolving rapidly. Technological developments including artificial Intelligence, genomics, robotics, photonics and quantum computing are progressing at lightning speed worldwide. New business models disrupt old markets and global tech companies start to dominate the market. Upcoming and emerging economies become new growth markets and access to their extensive pools of talent creates global competition. Knowing this, we realise the need to reach even further to achieve our desired outcomes in 2023 and beyond. All Techleap.nl activities are focused on moving the needle in a positive direction on the twelve determining success factors. To continuously accelerate the impact of Techleap.nl, we will match our actions with findings about the potential scale of sectors, markets and/or technologies. In this way, we will be able to prioritise and focus our efforts on the sectors, markets and technologies that are most promising and which add the highest economic and societal value for the Netherlands. This is our challenge