InnovationQuarter

About InnovationQuarter

InnovationQuarter is the regional development agency for South Holland. It helps innovative companies bring new technologies to market, grow their businesses, and scale up, with a focus on startups, scale-ups, and innovative SMEs that need support with financing, market access, partnerships, and international expansion.

The organization works across South Holland’s innovation ecosystem, connecting entrepreneurs with knowledge institutions, investors, governments, and industrial partners. It also supports international companies looking to establish or grow in the region, and it operates as a non-profit initiative backed by public authorities and leading knowledge institutions.

Core Values

• Innovation with impact: InnovationQuarter emphasizes turning ideas into entrepreneurship and then into scalable impact, with a strong focus on technologies that solve real market and societal challenges.
• Collaboration: The organization consistently positions cooperation with entrepreneurs, investors, knowledge institutions, governments, and ecosystem partners as essential to accelerating innovation.
• Regional strength: It aims to keep South Holland economically strong and future-proof by helping innovative companies grow within the region and by strengthening the broader innovation ecosystem.
• Practical support: InnovationQuarter focuses on concrete next steps for companies, whether that means financing, validation, market entry, or finding the right partner.

Unique Aspects

• Regional mandate for South Holland: InnovationQuarter is the official regional development agency for South Holland, giving it a broad ecosystem role rather than a narrow sector or fund-only focus.
• Four-fund financing platform: It offers financing through four investment funds with more than €300 million in fund capital, and says it helps companies move from proof-of-concept to large-scale production.
• Broad public and knowledge-institution backing: The organization is supported by the Province of South Holland, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, multiple municipalities, and leading institutions such as TU Delft, Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, and LUMC.
• Ecosystem connector: InnovationQuarter is positioned as a bridge between startups, scale-ups, corporates, investors, and public bodies, helping companies access partners, test environments, and sector programs.
• Internationalization capability: Beyond local growth, it actively helps foreign companies establish in South Holland and supports regional companies in entering new markets abroad.