Health~Holland

Welcome, Wilkommen! Your portal to the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector. When it comes to Life Sciences & Health, there are plenty of shared challenges with other parts of the world: such as the affordability, accessibility and quality of the care and treatments we provide. The Dutch population is also ageing, people have adopted unhealthy lifestyles, and the prevalence of chronic diseases and health expenditures are increasing. These are developments that have become a reality for many countries around the world. Tackling these requires innovative healthcare concepts and products. Many of these concepts and products are currently being showcased at the vitual.MEDICA 2020!
If you would like to learn moren about the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector then please browse through our digital showcase or join our virtual networking party on Thursday 19 November at 15.30 h (CET).

The Dutch Life Sciences & Health (LSH) sector is one of nine "top sectors" in the Netherlands. The top sectors are designated by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and are selected on their ability to contribute substantially to global societal challenges. Health~Holland is the top sector's communication channel.

The top sector LSH entails a broad scope of disciplines, from pharmaceuticals to medtech, from healthcare infrastructure to vaccination. In order to realise its mission - vital citizens in a healthy economy - the top sector buildes on the strengths of the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector to address the biggest societal challenges in prevention, cure and care: improving the quality of life (vitality) while restraining the costs of healthcare.

The topsector LSH initriates and stimulates multi disciplinary public private partnership (PPP) to valorise innovation. By attracting financial means, sharing best practices and univocal Health~Holland sector communication, the top sector boosts a productive infrastructure.

Improve healthcare together by connecting the right people!

Already since 1996, the Task Force Health Care's mission is: 'To provide a structural contribution to the improvement of healthcare infrastructures in emerging and developing countries by a maximum use of Dutch expertise and technology'. She wishes to achieve this by stimulating the cooperation between industry, NGO's, government authorities and knowledge institutions in projects and program's.

Currently the TFHC consists of companies, knowledge institutions and NGO's, and on top of that the TFHC has a direct connection with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and development coorperation and the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

The Task Force Health Care facilitates the cooperation through a multifunctional platform: it organises meetings, seminars, network events, trade missions, Holland pavilions at exhibitions, provides market information, studies and research and besides that it maintains an exhaustive (inter)national network.

For 40 years, the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) has served as a one-stop-shop for successful European expansion, supporting more than 4,000 companies from some 50 countries, including Boeing, Tesla, Oracle, Medtronic, Danone, Siemens, Huawei, SABIC and Samsung, to establish or expand their business in the Netherlands.

An operational unit of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, NFIA helps and advises foreign companies in all phases of establishing, rolling out and/or expanding there international activities in the Netherlands. Fueled bu public-private partnerships and Dutch innovation across industries, the Netherlands continues to draw interest from international companies. The NFIA is their first port of call, connecting them with its regional partners in the Invest in Holland Network and resources and tools they need to maker their investment decision. NFIA's free and confidential services include organizing fact-finding missions, arranging meetings with relevant partners, and providing personalized guidance and counsel on tax, government, labor and permit procedures, location options and business solutions.

Netherlands Business Support Offices (NBSO's) are offices commissioned by the Dutch ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) to support Dutch companies with their activities in foreign markets.

The NBSO Stuttgart supports Dutch companies that want to trade or invest, or are looking for business partners, in Germany. The NBSO Stuttgart offers general information about doing business in Germany, business opportunities, interesting developments and growing market sectors. Our core area of work is the German healthcare market including medical technology.

The NBSO offers services tailored to the respective companies, such as matchmaking and specific questions concerning market entry. Besides that, the NBSO visits Dutch companies at fairs or seminars in their working area, and supports Dutch organisations with organising collective business activities. 

Finally, the NBSO functions as a liaison office for Dutch economic clusters and there counterparts in Germany.