Know your power, grab your chance
Using the existing powers and reaching out to each other; that is the strategy that will further enhance current economic successes of Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region.
Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region has a broad economic profile as trade and industry is varied. And this pleases the urban region because it is the best recipe for growth. Its major task is to ensure that the region is becoming even more attractive for national and international companies. This will keep up the variation, and will even increase it.
Of course, Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region wants to offer a helping hand to likely sectors. There are five branches that can count on extra attention:
- health, care and wellbeing
- energy and the environment
- semiconductors and technology
- fashion and design
- tourism.
These sectors are presently quite large and have a lot to offer for further development. Moreover, they distinguish the Arnhem Nijmegen Urban Region from other urban regions in the Netherlands. In other words: they give character to the Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region.
Not less important is that the five sectors are not in their ivory towers but open to collateral benefits. It is expected that this will yield much innovation. And that is exactly what makes the knowledge and services economy in Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region flourish.
See some examples:
NXP
KEMA
The Sint Maartenskliniek
ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
The Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (go to Scientist for English information)
Energy and Environmental Technology-cluster (EMT)
