Brainport region: A pleasant place to live and work

Brainport Eindhoven is a leading technology region and a pleasant place to live and work. Pioneering is in our blood. This is where the world's most complex and sophisticated machines, products and innovations are conceived and made. All that in a region that 'only' consists of 21 municipalities with over 800,000 inhabitants. Small in size, then, but huge in impact. Innovations from Brainport contribute directly to the greatest challenges of our time and play an important role in e.g. the energy transition, improving healthcare and smart and green mobility.

A pleasant place to live and work

Being and remaining a pleasant place to live and work. This aspiration has long underpinned how we strengthen the Brainport Eindhoven region and develop the regional economy. And with success. Brainport is an above-average place to live and work, and one of the main growth engines of the Dutch economy. Home of pioneers and incubator of innovations. Not surprisingly, the national government is also investing in developments in the Brainport region.

How do we address changes and challenges?
We have achieved where we are today by investing in promising technologies for the future and by being mindful of who lives and works here. Just because things are going well does not mean we can sit back. That’s why we look toward the future based on a joint agenda of business, knowledge and educational institutions and governments.

Intensive collaboration is the key
Our regional resilience, flexibility and future resilience, we owe to the innovative ecosystem of cooperating high-tech companies, strong manufacturing industry and renowned knowledge and educational institutions for which Philips once laid the foundation. With their innovations, the companies and organisations offer direct answers to the biggest societal challenges facing the world in terms of energy & climate, health, mobility, safety and nutrition and more. It makes Brainport essential for global societal transitions and to reduce European dependence on other continents for vital products.

Map of the Brainport region