Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region
Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region is strategically located in the middle of the Randstad conurbation, the Flemish Rhombus and the Ruhr area. Together with the sophisticated infrastructure and the highly educated workforce, it gives a solid base for national and international economic activities. Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region covers seven smaller regions which all have their own economic activities and characteristics.
Doing Business
The cityregion Arnhem Nijmegen has a healthy and varied economy. No less than one-third of the working population consist of people with a secondary or university educational background. The region has plenty of research institutes and innovative businesses.
Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region has many healthy sectors, such as the business services sector, transport and logistics. The most successful sectors are:
High Tech locations
Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region has various industrial estates with a large variety of companies that work, together or on their own, on the development of new technologies and products.
Energy & the environment
The Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region is very committed to innovation and technology, hence with energy, the environment and sustainability. In this respect, the region is in the vanguard.
The municipalities in Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region pursue a modern environmental policy. Nijmegen, for instance, compiled a list with ten action points. Nijmegen wants to generate sun and wind energy, construct low-energy buildings and use clean fuels. Arnhem has had low-energy trolley buses for ages.
Fashion & Design
Cool Region Arnhem Nijmegen harbours many creative persons like artists and people with a free profession. They publish books or develop software or are into advertising, design, music, or performing arts. A quarter of Arnhem’s working population belongs to the creative ‘industry’, and a third of Nijmegen’s working population. In the Netherlands there is only the city of Utrecht that has more professional practitioners in creative fields of occupation.
Potential breeding grounds around the inner city are mainly old industrial estates. In Nijmegen it is usually Koers West and in Arnhem the Coberco-quarter. The historical quarter Klarendal in Arnhem is popular especially for fashion designers.
Cool Region also has numerous collective industrial buildings with an attractive climate for young entrepreneurs. Cool Region encourages the development of these economic activities.
Semiconductors & technology
Chip maker NXP employs 4,500 workers, making it the largest industrial company in the Nijmegen region. NXP was the founder of the ambitious 52 Degrees project, an important centre for innovation and technology for the Arnhem Nijmegen Cool Region.
he Arnhem Nijmegen region has many semiconductor companies. These companies are clustered in a network called Business Cluster Semiconductors (BCS), which covers the whole of Eastern Netherlands. Business Cluster Semiconductors Eastern Netherlands is a regional network of innovative companies active in the whole value chain of development, production and application of Advanced ICs, MEMS, Sensors and Wireless Systems. Visit www.bcsemi.nl for more information about BCSEMI, its members and its network.