Clusters Meet Regions Eindhoven 2025

26–27 Mar 2025 | Eindhoven, Netherlands

Wednesday, 26 March 2025 | 09:25 - 11:15

1st Day Morning Plenary Sessions

Format:In-personLocation:High Tech Campus Eindhoven

09.25-09.30 Welcome by moderator, Simone van Trier

09:30-09.35 Introduction to Cluster Meet Regions, Teodora Jilkova, ECCP

09.35-10.00 Opening Session. Connection. Leading. Entrepreneurial. Scoring. Enjoying. Historical. That´s Brabant at its best.

Opening by Irena  Banaszynska, Representative of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union responsible for the Council WP on Industry, Space, Technical Harmonisation

Opening interview with the CMRs organisers and the European Commission – “Welcome to Noord-Brabant” 

Paul van Nunen, Managing Director, Brainport Development

Sander Groenen, Managing Director, AgriFood Capital

Jakub Boratynski, Director for Networks & Governance at Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

Moderated by Simone van Trier

10.00-10.15 Presentation of the Input Paper, Jan-Philipp Kramer, Head of EU-Services at Prognos AG / TEAM ECCP

10.15-10.35 Keynote “Regional economic development and the role of clusters in regional innovation ecosystems”, Koenraad Debackere, Executive Director, KU Leuven Research & Development / Vice Chairman, Leuven Mindgate

10:35-10.55 Keynote “Operating in a regional innovation ecosystem”

Joost van Hees, Vice President Global Government Affairs, ASML

10.55-11.15 Keynote “Brabant, nursery of strong triple helix collaborations for competitiveness”, Martijn van Gruijthuijsen, Regional Minister in charge of Economy and Innovation, Province of Noord-Brabant

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Session location High Tech Campus Eindhoven