voor Nederlandse ondernemers
for Dutch enterpreneursMedtech hub with Minnesota
In 2023, Minnesota and the Netherlands have started a strategic and long-lasting partnership. Both regions have a strategic focus on medical devices and a renowned ecosystem with a high level of expertise and professionals who complement each other. The goal of this initiative is to strengthen Medtech hubs in both Minnesota and the Netherlands, where we collaborate, inspire and visit each other.
What Limburg has to offer you
- A unique location in the Southernmost corner of The Netherlands; where the Belgian, German, and Dutch markets intersect
- A powerhouse region of leading university hospitals in clinical care and medical research
- More than 650 innovative life sciences and health companies located in this region
- A strategic location for pan-European warehousing, logistics, and fulfillment especially for Medtech
- Hands on business mentality ensuring productive legal, accounting, and tax solutions
- Direct proximity to leading trade shows in metropoles such as Düsseldorf, Cologne and Brussels.
Let LIOF be your guide
LIOF is the regional development and investment company responsible for the Dutch province of Limburg. We are a governmental agency and our services are free of charge. We provide you with the information and support you need. From first contact to introductions with the right service providers ("The Essentials"), through facilitating tailor-made fact finding tours for business orientation on the Limburg region.
- We help local small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) with innovative ideas, business plans, financing requests and we can provide venture capital
- We help foreign entrepreneurs to establish in Limburg to access and/or service the European market
- We also help local businesses and foreign companies with cross-border cooperation and international trade.
More detailed information on our excellent network? Go to ‘the Essentials’
Meet us
Contact us and discover how Limburg and our extensive network can kickstart your business in the Netherlands.
In order to understand your business and what is relevant to you, we kindly ask you to fill out the intake-form. Then we will plan our first contact. And of course nothing stands in your way to come over and see the Limburg region for yourself in a tailor-made fact finding tour!
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A powerful ecosystem
Limburg has more than 650 innovative life sciences and health companies that are located in the region. Together with numerous public and private research centers, five major universities, four academic hospitals, and thirty technology centers, they form the powerful LSH ecosystem of our province and the nearby German and Belgium region. Furthermore, ample facilities, partners, and business parks are on hand to let you tap into the vast knowledge that is available. The Merln Institute, focusing on material application development, and InSciTe, looking at specific medical application, are good examples, but the big innovative catalyst of our region is the Brightlands campus in Maastricht!
Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus
The Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus is part of the Brightlands concept, an open innovation community in Limburg that brings together innovative entrepreneurs, researchers, and students in a specific sector. In Maastricht they are especially focused on tomorrow’s health where the researchers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and students work together on innovations in healthcare, medicine, and biosciences. Valorization is the main goal of the campus as they try to cocreate products and services that will contribute to better public health. The campus offers all the facilities to support the entire value creation chain, from idea through market introduction.
Our network
"The Essentials"
We connect you with the right service providers
CRO Partners
Full service Medical Device CRO services supporting your regulatory, quality and clinical needs; from R&D to market access, including authorized representatives services under the MDR and IVDR regulations.
Reimbursement partners
To provide you with practical information about the reimbursement landscape in the various countries; how your medical device fits within the landscape and guidance on strategy for market access in relation to reimbursement.
R&D and clinical sites partners
Leading research and clinical support in Heart & Vascular, Orthopedics & Spine, and Regenerative Medicine with synergetical capabilities in Maastricht (MUMC+), and close by Aachen (Klinikum), Liège (Hospital), and Eindhoven (Maxima MC, Catharina Hospital).
Industry partners
Limburg and the crossborder region boasts a wealth of specialized SME companies with expertise in development and manufacturing of medical related electro-mechanical products, medical materials & specialty coatings and assembly work.
Marketing, Sales & Distribution Channel partners
To assist in analyzing European markets, developing marketing strategies, as well as to select and manage distributors and distribution channels to achieve structural and sustainable growth.
Warehousing, Logistics & Fulfillment partners
Custom third-party logistics, temperature, controlled warehousing, fulfillment, and freight management solutions as well as back office support services.
Tax and Accounting Partners
To ensure that you meet all your tax, accounting and legal requirements in the Netherlands and key target countries.
Expat affairs and staff recruitment
The Expat Centre Maastricht gives you insight in the necessary procedures for obtaining permits. They bring you in contact with companies for staff search & recruitment of clinical staff, business developers. Furthermore they are in contact with sales reps and specialized agencies for targeted local sourcing.
And on top of this we offer you access to our large AgriFood/Life Sciences & health network, Technology programs and Venture Capital partners. All of these services are provided with a diverse and inclusive mindset as we truly believe at LIOF that a diverse and inclusive labour force will not only bring companies further but the region as a whole.
