10 CEOs/founders of leading Dutch scale-ups are sounding the alarm. The Netherlands lacks the innovation and business climate in which scale-ups have the opportunity to be successful. We, as united scale-up CEOs, call on the government, investors, and companies to commit to Deeptech scale-ups to ensure the future prosperity of the Netherlands.
For Johan Feenstra of SMART Photonics, being able to scale up production capacity in a timely manner is a critical success factor in SMART Photonics’ ambition to become the leading player in integrated photonics. “It is unacceptable, for example, that a new factory that can be built today would not be connected to the power grid until 2028.”
Read the press release here (Dutch)
