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 Why invest in Eindhoven region?
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The answer is very simple and diverse:
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Good business climate, with lots of space to grow.
Leader in open innovation.
Unique partnership between us and our hinterland.
An airport with lots transshipment of raw materials and goods.
Large foreign companies/ transnational corporations. For
example ASML.
Many business parks with strategic positions.
An excellent location: at the heart of Benelux.
Good links to Belgium and Germany.
Superior education.
Leader in technology.
Because of all these reasons, Eindhoven region is attractive to
business men and is an excellent area to start up a business or to
invest in.
Made By: Loes Huijbers, Sinead Shih TG3A
Eindhoven.
Men in Suits
Eindhoven houses many different Business Parks, under which the
internationally orientated and well developed Flight Forum and High
Tech Campus. These parks house several well known and import
companies.
The Eindhoven region is the home of 278 foreign-owned companies,
employing a total of over 19,000 people.
And already four new business parks are being planned; these will
be located in Meerhoven to the west of the city Eindhoven.
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The Flight Forum is mainly intended for aviation, technology
and internationally orientated companies e.g. ASML. These
companies are mainly capital-intensive, and semi-manufactures.
The outbound and inbound of goods of these companies are
transported via this mainport. This mainport is the Eindhoven
Airport. The transshipment of goods is one of the main features
at this airport, as it is so close to the Flight Forum.
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The Lake Forum will be intended for crafts, services, production
and trading fields. This will be an area where goods and ideas
will be exchanged with our hinterland, making Eindhoven a
globalised and transnational region.
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The Land Forum will be built for business and office
development purposes.
2010 The Three Pillars
Food & Nutrition
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There are 3 main sectors in Eindhoven that are strong and very
important in the Netherlands. Here are some key facts. The Pillars
are all very internationally orientated, and well known.
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One-fifth of all knowledge workers in the Netherlands, a total of
10,000, work in this sector. In this sector, good opportunities are
offered because we have excellent logistic systems and
knowledge of ingredients.
Perishables are easily transported by frieght carriers to other
countries or to other regions by plane, namely by the Eindhoven
airport.
High Tech Systems & Materials
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This sector, has 56,000 employees (a quarter of the total number
of employed people in the Netherlands)
Many Business parks are mainly intended for this sector, e.g.
High Tech Campus, Flight forum (as mentioned in ‘Men in
Suits’)
Raw materials and goods are easily transported to other countries
because the locations of these parks are close to Eindhoven
airport.
The TUE is a world wide known technological school which
produces excellent students for this sector.
Many transnational corporations make Eindhoven a globalised
area.
Medical Systems & Life Sciences
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There are many good companies such as the Philips Medical
Systems and Organon, these companies make the third pillar,
Medical Systems & Life Sciences.
Mainly based on molecular imaging and mechatronics for
medical purposes.
The Eindhoven airport uses freight carriers to transport
medication, organs, and urgent parts.
Eindhoven
located in the
Netherlands
On the right:
Technical
university
High
Tech campus
MMC
Eindhoven*
MMC Veldhoven*
PSV stadium
Design academy
*MMC: Maxima
Medical Center, hospital
Small schools, huge possibilities
TU/e: The technical university of Eindhoven, it belongs to the best
universities in the Netherlands. It is the best university in the
Netherlands, when it comes to computer science. At the Technical
university there are:
− 11 bachelor studies
− 20 Master studies
− 8 designer studies
Some of the studies are in English. And the TU even offers language
courses, that makes it attractive for people from foreign countries,
because they can get courses in the Dutch language. The technical
university has a lot of different departments in which also research is
done, for example Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences.
Dutch students are also welcome here, as the students are taught in
the English language, at the end of their studies, they will receive an
IB-diploma, this is very useful for their future as there are many
foreign companies. The language English has become quite
important in the Eindhoven region
Bilingual Education: There are now many schools in Eindhoven
that offer bilingual education, e.g. Stedelijk College, Sondervick
College. Here students are taught to be more international and study
in an globalised atmosphere.
The students that these schools produce have a good education , are
very internationally orientated, they are the future and make
Eindhoven an excellent place to invest in.
Fontys: It isn’t a university, but an academy. The studies that Fontys
offer are ICT, sports, engineering but also health care and economics,
marketing and art, etc. It has different locations, mostly spread over
the south of the Netherlands.
Design academy: The design academy is for all the people that
really want to achieve something with art. You can do bachelor and
master studies at the design academy in Eindhoven.
2010
The international school: If an entire foreign family moved to
Eindhoven to do business, than the children have to go to a school as
well, for them there is the international school. Of course native
From A to Z
Eindhoven airport
Eindhoven airport transports mixed cargo, perishables and urgent
goods to places all over the world, especially to the hinterland. And
the products that arrive in Eindhoven can be further transported by
train and/or truck. The airport is located at a 15 minutes drive from
the city centre of Eindhoven. From the airport you can daily fly to
destinations such as Barcelona, Madrid, Dublin, Istanbul, London
Heathrow & London Stansted, Paris, Marseille, Milan, Pisa and
Rome. You can travel with different airlines like Ryan air, Transavia
and Corendon, Etc.
The number of passenger of Eindhoven airport
Infrastructure
You can find Eindhoven in the south of the province North-Brabant.
It is very centrally located in relation to other big cities like,
Amsterdam (125 km), Rotterdam (110 km), Antwerp (80 km),
Brussels (135 km), Düsseldorf (110 km) and Paris (440 km). It is
close to the highways, if you take a look at the map in the middle of
this brochure, you can see the A2 and the A67.
Public transportation
The Central railway station is situated right in the centre of
Eindhoven. You will find the bus station at the North end of the
Central Station. Other parts of the city, towns and villages are within
easy reach by bus. Taxi’s are available outside Central Station at the
North and South end.
Hotels
If you are travelling for example for a business trip and you want to
sleep in a hotel in Eindhoven then here are some examples:
• Park plaza Mandarin Eindhoven
• Best Western premier ART Hotel Eindhoven
• Van der Valk Hotel
• Queen Hotel
As you can see in the diagram above the number of passenger has
grown a lot since the year 2000.
• Sandton Hotel City Centre