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door to Brabant

Brabant Business Region is your official gateway to doing business in one of the most innovative and collaborative regions of the Netherlands. Our platform offers a comprehensive overview of the key players, facts and figures, and sector insights that shape Brabant’s dynamic business landscape. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or business developer exploring opportunities in or with Brabant, we provide the knowledge and network you need to get started. From cutting-edge technology clusters to a strong manufacturing heritage and a thriving agrifood ecosystem, Brabant is where business, innovation and collaboration come together. Discover the people, sectors and stories behind Brabant’s success, and find your starting point in the region.

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Development agencies

Brabant Development Agency

Energy, health, food, and technology, major challenges demand bold action. The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) stands alongside startups and scale-ups that are making a difference. With capital. With expertise. With our network. We accelerate growth. Strengthen the innovation climate. Open international doors. And we attract companies to Brabant that add real value. Together, we’re building a strong, sustainable, and leading Brabant.

Brainport Development

The economic development company, Brainport Development, works with many partners to strengthen Brainport Eindhoven. As an independent organisation, Brainport Development develops the regional economic strategy, develops and realises projects, offers business advice and promotes Brainport Eindhoven at home and abroad.

REWIN

Rewin plays a key role in building a strong region where innovation, sustainable growth, and social impact come together. By connecting businesses, knowledge institutions, and governments, Rewin creates opportunities and helps overcome obstacles. Four powerful programs deliver impact that is both visible and measurable. Whether the need is for expertise, collaboration partners, or funding, support is always within reach. Together, these efforts ensure that West Brabant is a place where organizations and people can thrive—today and for future generations.

Agrifood Capital

Developing the smartest and most sustainable food production systems – that is our mission. AgriFood Capital is a collaboration of industry, public authorities and knowledge institutes in North-East Brabant for the purpose of achieving innovation and growth in agrifood. We are developing smart regional solutions for global agrifood challenges. Together we are creating a smarter, healthier and more sustainable world for tomorrow.

Midpoint Brabant

Midpoint Brabant is the regional collaboration network of businesses, educational and knowledge institutions, governments, and social organizations in the Heart of Brabant: a breeding ground for entrepreneurial talent that drives people-centered innovation for societal progress.

Leading campuses

High Tech Campus Eindhoven

High Tech Campus Eindhoven, the smartest square km in Europe, is an ecosystem of 300 high tech companies. It's home to more than 12,500 innovators, researchers and engineers that create the technologies and businesses of tomorrow.

Brainport Industries Campus

At Brainport Industries Campus, the best high-tech manufacturing industry is united under a single roof. It offers an innovative work landscape in the green heart of Brainport Eindhoven. Here, in the campus’ open culture, surrounded by nature, you will find a high-tech manufacturing industry that appeals to talented people and professionals. A magnet for customers, talented people and innovation. This is the future of the high-tech manufacturing industry.

Automotive Campus

The Automotive Campus has over 1250 people – including around 600 students – working on the mobility solutions of the future. They do so at leading automotive businesses, knowledge institutes, innovative start-ups, and educational institutes. In barely fifteen years, the campus has grown into the top national and international hotspot when it comes to green mobility and smart mobility.

Mindlabs

MindLabs is a partnership in which three knowledge institutions, authorities and a growing number of business partners, social institutions and startups participate. Together, MindLabs' partners strengthen the development of technologies that interact with human behaviour; in other words, human-centred AI. Partners want to help solve societal challenges using the unique possibilities of these technologies.

Breda Robotics

Breda Robotics is the leading network platform for robotics and AI in Southwest Netherlands. We connect companies, knowledge institutions and governments to collaborate on technological innovation. Through our hybrid learning environment, experience center and broader ecosystem, we promote the adoption of robotics and automation, and link talent to the region.

Green Chemistry Campus

The Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom is a driving force behind the raw materials transition. Entrepreneurs, schools, governments, local residents and knowledge institutions come together here to accelerate innovation. The focus lies on high-impact technologies and applications such as pyrolysis, bio-aromatics and advanced biobased materials. With laboratories, a demo facility and access to technological and business expertise, the Campus offers fertile ground for innovation. A key feature is the Circular Experience Center, where over 180 products from the circular and biobased economy are brought to life.

Pivot Park

Pivot Park is the hotspot for companies and knowledge institutions in the biopharmaceutical industry. More than 1,000 people work on the campus at around 60 start-ups, scale-ups and established companies specialising in innovative drug development. Pivot Park provides sustainable real estate, facilities and services and gives access to knowledge, entrepreneurship and a dynamic community. Pivot Park in Oss has everything it takes to develop Europe's leading biopharmaceutical campus for a community that wants to improve global health together.

Universities

Eindhoven University of Technology

We educate students and advance knowledge in science & technology for the benefit of humanity. We integrate education and research to enable our students and scientists to become thought leaders and to design and achieve the unimaginable. In close collaboration with our public and private partners, we translate our basic research into meaningful solutions. At TU/e, we embrace and live our four CORe values: Curious, Open, Respectful and Responsible.

Tilburg University

Tilburg University is at the heart of society. We want to have a positive impact on society and to help shape that society. With our high-quality research and inspiring and character-building education, we contribute to an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable society. This focus has been in Tilburg University’s DNA since its establishment in 1927.

Government

Province of North Brabant

North Brabant connects its innovative ecosystems with leading regions worldwide to accelerate knowledge, talent, and technology exchange. Our internationalisation team brings global insights into Brabant and promotes our strengths abroad, creating partnerships that drive innovation in life sciences, high-tech, biotech, renewable energy, AI, and smart mobility.

Locations

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Oss
  • Pivot Park

    Pivot Park is a one-stop location for start-up, scale-up and established biopharmaceutical innovators.

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Tilburg
  • BOM

    The Brabant Development Agency (BOM) stands alongside startups and scale-ups that are making a difference.

  • Midpoint

    Midpoint Brabant is the key link between businesses, educational and knowledge institutions, governments, and social organizations in the Heart of Brabant region.

  • Tilburg University

    High-quality research, inspiring and character-building education, we contribute to an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable society.

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Eindhoven
  • Brainport Development

    The economic development company, Brainport Development, works with many partners to strengthen Brainport Eindhoven.

  • High Tech Campus Eindhoven

    High Tech Campus Eindhoven, the smartest square km in Europe, is an ecosystem of 300 high tech companies.

  • Brainport Industries Campus

    At Brainport Industries Campus, the best high-tech manufacturing industry is united under a single roof.

  • Automotive Campus

    The Automotive Campus has over 1250 people – including around 600 students – working on the mobility solutions of the future.

  • Eindhoven University of Technology

    We educate students and advance knowledge in science & technology for the benefit of humanity.

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s-Hertogenbosch
  • Agrifood Capital

    Developing the smartest and most sustainable food production systems – that is our mission.

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Breda
  • Breda Robotics

    Breda Robotics is the leading network platform for robotics and AI in Southwest Netherlands.

  • REWIN

    REWIN plays a key role in building a strong region where innovation, sustainable growth, and social impact come together.

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Bergen op Zoom
  • Green Chemistry Campus

    The Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom is a driving force behind the raw materials transition.

  • Key players in Brabant