Long term focus

However, the Dutch innovation chain has a number of weaknesses. For example, scientific innovations are insufficiently converted into successful applications and economic and social value creation. With a greater focus on this so-called valorisation, applied research and a revaluation of entrepreneurship, our country can become more attractive for R&D investments. It is also important in the Netherlands to choose more precisely which technologies and key positions we deploy in often global value chains. With this long-term focus, innovation policy can contribute more to a safer, healthier, more sustainable and more prosperous Netherlands.

In brief

• Focus on strengthening the entire innovation chain, from fundamental research to valorisation and entrepreneurship
• Making long-term choices for key enabling technologies and key positions (control points) in new value chains
• SME focus on creating more scale-ups and sectors with lagging productivity growth
• Accelerating sustainability in industry with a joint system approach by companies, knowledge institutions and government with a focus on innovation and R&D
• Turning the National Growth Fund into a structural instrument that boosts the creation of new value chains and innovation ecosystems
• Achieve EU standard to invest 3% of GDP in R&D
• Let civil and defense investments in R&D reinforce each other