Pien Niehe
Europe Press Office,Amsterdam
A new partnership between Arup and seven Dutch design, consulting and engineering firms plus an investor are offering initiators of innovation areas their support.
The new initiative is named ‘Innovation Area Development Partnership’ (IADP) and includes Arup, Caudata, Kadans Real Estate, KCAP Architects&Planners, PT Finance, Royal HaskoningDHV, UNStudio and Zjak Consult.
Innovations are of great importance to businesses, but also for the economy as a whole. A lot of companies seek collaboration with other firms and research institutes to accomplish product innovations and technical breakthroughs. This leads to a growing interest for science parks, innovation districts and industrial campuses, where these companies and institutes find the environment to work together, cross-fertilise and enhance the business.
The development of these so-called ‘innovation areas’ is complex and needs an integral, holistic and sustainable interdisciplinary approach in one team. In a suchlike approach is attention for a solid market research, original (real estate) concepts, appealing urbanism, strong park and campus management and financial solutions. There is a global demand for plans that can meet this high level of requirements. IADP offers this approach. Between 26-29 September the new collective will present itself at the world conference ‘Science parks & Innovation areas’ in Istanbul.