Health, cure and care
Health, cure and care occupy a prominent place within the Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region. With a labour force of over 23,000 people, the medical sector is Nijmegen’s largest provider of work. The health care sector is an essential link in the knowledge economy of Nijmegen, City of Health.
Healthy
business activities
Nijmegen
has so many companies, universities and knowledge institutes in the biomedical,
medical and health sectors that a whole network has sprung up around the
city: Health Valley,
which covers the whole eastern part of the Netherlands, including Arnhem.
Health
Valley is geared towards matchmaking between companies and knowledge institutes
concerning innovation or promising business initiatives<link naar 46 –
researching>. Health care benefits from innovative business activities.
Medical-technological and bio-molecular enterprises primarily contribute to a
growing knowledge economy. Start-up companies can therefore apply for grants
and can find office space in multi-unit industrial buildings such as the
Mercator Technology & Science Park.
Spin offs
Universities and colleges of higher professional education in Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region teach their students to use their newly gained knowledge and research methods in a commercial manner and to promote spin-offs. Due to such institutions as the Technovium science has even become a bit sexy as well. Businesses in the Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region can therefore always count on highly qualified personnel. Furthermore, Cool Region is a wonderful place to live and work. Its primary focus on ‘health’ is indeed very popular among companies. Another fast growing business activity relates to welfare and hospilality. There are also innovative contacts with technological enterprises in the Twente region and with food technological companies in Wageningen.
