Over the past decades technology innovation has gradually evolved into an open process with a diverse mix of players working together in a creative and cooperative atmosphere.

Today, innovative R&D is too complex and costly to be carried out by a single player. Intensive and wide-ranging international cooperation is required between knowledge institutions, multinationals and start-up companies. Open innovation is the new mainstream: whereas companies used to rigorously protect new inventions with watertight patents, they now see knowledge sharing and joint research as the way forward for future scientific progress. This fresh perspective is compelling universities and research institutions, as well as high-tech companies, to radically rethink their business strategies.

Joint efforts and investments in common research programmes are a prerequisite for success and are best accommodated in Science Parks whose open structure and management serve to initiate and foster contacts between the residents.

Science Port Holland NV offers an attractive and inspiring campus to knowledge institutions and international high-tech companies, which stimulates casual meetings, open debate and fruitful cooperation.

Apart from the facilities and services that Science Port Holland NV will offer in the parks within the region, the management also plans to organize scientific events as well as recreational gatherings where colleagues from all organizations can relax together in pleasant surroundings.

Science Port Holland NV is fully aware that an interactive environment connecting science and business and a professional network (partners) are key conditions for achieving successful technology innovation.