Amsterdam opens a corporate hunt around the Financial Medicine Agency

Alderman Udo Kock wrote this in a letter to the City Council on Tuesday, in which he announced that he would draw three tons for a program of action. In addition, an additional 1.2 million euros have been set aside to invest with other regions and institutions in the acquisition of "spinoffs". of the EMA, which is due to open in Amsterdam in March 2019.

According to the director of EMA Guido Rasi has an "ecosystem" around his agency of about 2500 in the sector life sciences and health in and around London. The municipality can not say how many of them are considering a move. "But we know that the number is interesting enough to make an effort," says a spokesman

Ambassador Bos

The program's ambassador will be the former politician Wouter Bos, who will soon be attending The CEO of VU Medical Center swaps for the highest position of state-owned Invest-NL. Bos was already involved in lobbying for the arrival of the EMA in Amsterdam and is also busy bringing in farmers from the agency's ecosystem, writes Kock.