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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide. The Netherlands remains open for business. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Trick 1: Pay excessive amounts for rights to use brands names, intellectual property or other non physical assets the parent company owns. Oh, and a ‘Related Party’ is essentially ‘them’.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Eindhoven, Netherlands. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. Despite its recent financial crisis, the WIPO cites Cyprus as a country showing great potential in intellectual property and technology output. Pune, India?.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.

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THINK. TECH. DISCOVER.

Austin Startup

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Just how cool is that? I know it looks awesome and it really is but it is also complicated and at times not fun at all.

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