Stimulate and connect
- Edited 14 October 2024
- 2 min
KVK supports entrepreneurs so that they can seize opportunities and face challenges. We do this together with a range of stakeholders, each with their own role in the ecosystem. We help stakeholders provide entrepreneurs with targeted and customer-driven support.
Entrepreneurs need a clearer system of services. They sometimes face difficult issues and dilemmas. Starting up, growing internationally, innovating, reorganising, coping with a crisis. These are all challenges requiring specific knowledge that entrepreneurs do not always have in-house. Their search for the right information often involves many different agencies. Also, entrepreneurs are not always informed about relevant legislation and regulations. As a result, many entrepreneurs miss out on opportunities or get into difficulty because they do not comply with current legislation.
Better cooperation needed in the ecosystem
To solve this, KVK and partners in the ecosystem want to improve cooperation between stakeholders. We are working towards a situation of clear inter-agency referrals, so entrepreneurs do not miss out or waste time trying to find the information they need. By making better connections between stakeholders, creating clarity about everyone's role, and combating fragmentation, entrepreneurs will be more easily able to access the services they need.
KVK does this by organising activities together with other stakeholders and sharing information on futureproofing, growth capacity, financing, international business, starting up, and sustainable business. We also help entrepreneurs and stakeholders with useful information on (regional) economic developments and entrepreneurial data based on the KVK Business Register and other data sources.
Together with partners, KVK thus creates cohesion in the ecosystem, helping entrepreneurs through proactive, personal, and integrated services, regardless of their location or area of need. Services are personalised and tailored to the specific needs of each entrepreneur.
The KVK approach
How do we help entrepreneurs? The KVK advisory team answers individual entrepreneurial questions and refers entrepreneurs to the appropriate bodies for dealing with their issues. Our relationship managers take a proactive role and initiate connections with and between (regional) stakeholders. In this way, KVK aims to help entrepreneurs from a seamlessly integrated landscape of public service providers. Efficiently, via the shortest route, and on a human scale with the right knowledge. The aim is for entrepreneurs to know what they may and may not do in order to make informed choices and take confident decisions.
Legal tasks
KVK carries out its statutory tasks in the field of information, registration, regional stimulation, innovation stimulation, and the Ondernemerspleinen with in an increasingly consistent way. We are committed to better coordination and connection between both national and regional bodies and agencies. Using that consistency, we stimulate economic growth, sustainable and innovative entrepreneurship, and cooperation within the ecosystem.
Concrete initiatives
KVK and partners do this by, for example, providing these services:
- KVK Figures and offers you valuable (regional) data and useful analyses for research and policy.
- At the regional , experts from various organisations are available in one place to help entrepreneurs with personal advice.
- Want to know more? Take a look at the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ SME services action 2024-2026 (in Dutch).
Contact us
Do you see opportunities to help entrepreneurs move forward together with KVK and other stakeholders? Our relationship managers will be happy to engage with you and put you in touch with the right people or teams: regio@kvk.nl
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