2. Overview of ICT in Holland
Nederland ICT is the trade association for more than 550 IT,
telecom, and office companies in the Netherlands. Nederland
ICT represents a business community with a turnover of
almost €30 billion and over 250,000 employees, making it the
foremost advocate and representative of the Dutch ICT sector.
Nederland ICT's mission is to apply its expertise and
knowledge for the purpose of providing the highest possible
quality service and opportunities to its members in the ICT
sector, and help them make the right decisions in delivering
commercial solutions and achieving growth and profitability.
Nederland ICT is active in the area of market promotion,
advocacy and individual services, for example in the legal
domain. Furthermore its members profit from financial benefits
and the extensive network platform.
3. ICT Export and İmport from
Holland
The Netherlands earns almost 30% of its income from the export of goods and services.
In 2012, the value of exports was 86.7% of the Netherlands' GDP.
Holland’s exports totalled 404.6 billion euros in 2011, up 8.9 % from 2010. Holland’s
export trade was the second-highest in Europe after Germany. Our prominence in
European exports can mainly be attributed to transit exports to other European
countries. In this sense, we really are the gateway to Europe for many products from other
regions. Half of our exports consist of transit exports.
As the fifth largest exporter of goods in the world, the Netherlands occupies a prominent
position when it comes to world trade. In 2011, the Netherlands exported goods worth a
total of more than 638 billion US dollars, which is 3.8 % of the world's total exports.
4. ICT Export and İmport from
Holland
The Netherlands is also a significant exporter of commercial services - exports of commercial
services amounted to 131 billion US dollars (Statistics Netherlands 2012) in 2011, which placed
the country ninth in the world rankings.
The Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products worldwide, after
the United States.
In 2012, Holland's most important export partners
were: Germany (24.1%); Belgium (12.1%);France (8.9%); UK (8.0%); Italy (4.8%) and US(4.1%).
In 2012, Holland's most significant import partners
were: Germany (16.7%); Belgium (10.0%);China (8.4%); UK ( 6.7%); US (6.6%)
and France (4.6%).
5. ICT Sector in
Holland
The Netherlands has a computer-savvy populace and very high rates of
computer/broadband penetration and mobile telephony use. The country’s IT
infrastructure is second-to-none, with specialised networks powering global
R&D efforts. This ecosystem has given rise to globally-competitive software
developers, hardware companies and IT consultancies in areas such as
business, simulation, mobility, healthcare and safety. Additionally, many
companies develop computer games for all major platforms, the internet and
mobile telephones. The Netherlands is a European leader in embedded systems
and a world leader in micro-chip manufacturing equipment.
Some 70 per cent of innovation in the Netherlands is IT-related, enabling
crucial developments in areas such as water management, food and cut-
flowers, and automotive. A number of public-private partnerships, in which
the government works closely with academia and the private sector, effectively
push the boundaries in areas such as parallel computing, modelling, embedded
systems, multimedia technologies and virtual laboratories
