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Creative Amsterdam: creating opportunities

Creative Amsterdam stimulates the creative industries in the seven cities of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The programme was initiated in 2007, with a pledge to cooperate on the part of the region’s local government and other organisations.

Why?
More creative businesses
The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is the fifth biggest creative metropolis in the world. Many companies base themselves
here because the area is easily accessible, creatives want to live here, and innovation and commerce go hand in hand. However, creative players can not always find each other. This is what Creative Amsterdam intends to change.

Creative Amsterdam aims to promote:
- The establishment of (international) creative companies in the region;
- The take-up of products and services from creative companies in the region by (international) businesses;
- The attractiveness of the region for international creative talent.

How?
A one-stop shop for the creative industries
Creative Amsterdam offers national and international companies access to the creative potential of the region. Conversely, it also helps the region’s creative companies find the right facilities
to stimulate their entrepreneurialism.

The programme does this through three key activities:
- Concentrating information and activities, by bringing them together in a single physical and digital location: www.creativeamsterdam.nl
- Facilitating, by improving services to foreign companies and to starting and growing entrepreneurs
- Promoting the creative industries in the region so that they attract national and international attention