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Figure 1-9: Employment in Amsterdam by sector (1990-2007)40%35%30%25%20%Industry, transport and wholesaletradeRetail trade, hotel and cateringindustry and othersProfessional financial servicesPublic services15%199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007Source: O+S Amsterdam (2008a)Table 1-3: Ten largest employers in the Amsterdam metropolitan region (1 January 2007)Rank Name No. of No. of jobs Sectorbranches1 Municipality Amsterdam 187 16,400 Government2 ING-Group 64 13,500 Financial sector3 University of Amsterdam (incl. 90 11,500 Education/health careAMC)4 ABN AMRO 40 10,200 Financial sector5 VU University Amsterdam (incl. 31 9,100 Education/health careVUmc)6 Police Amsterdam-Amstelland 32 5,700 Government7 GVB (independent since 1 January 8 4,000 Transport2007)8 UWV 4 3,700 Government9 Royal TNT Mail B.V. 15 3,100 Mail services10 IBM/Lotus 5 3,000 WholesaleSource: O+S Amsterdam (2007b)Table 1-4 and Table 1-5 give an indication of the balance between small and medium-sizedcompanies. Because the data is not available at the level of the Amsterdam metropolitan area, it ispresented for the COROP-regions (Table 1-4) and municipalities (Table 1-5) for which data couldbe found. According to Table 1-4, the share of medium-sized companies (defined as having 100or more employees) in the total number of businesses varies between 0.6% and 1% for thevarious regions of the metropolitan region. The Dutch average is 0.8%. When taking the Groot-Amsterdam region as a point of reference for comparison with the whole of the Netherlands, wecan see that the share of very small companies (0-5 employees) and medium-sized companies liesbelow the Dutch average, whereas the share of companies with 5-100 employees clearly exceedsthe national average. Table 1-5 shows how employees are divided over the various company sizesfor a number of municipalities within the Amsterdam metropolitan region. Between 63.7% and71.4% of the employees from the selected municipalities are working for medium-sized22
companies, compared to the Dutch average of 64.6%. Except for Hilversum, all selectedmunicipalities from the metropolitan region have a higher percentage of employees working formedium-sized companies than the Dutch average. Particularly in Amsterdam many people areworking for the somewhat larger companies.Table 1-4: Ownership structure companies by number of workers per business0-5 5-10 10-100 >100Agglomeratie 81.3% 8.9% 9.0% 0.9%HaarlemZaanstreek 83.9% 8.0% 7.5% 0.6%Groot-80.2% 9.1% 10.0% 0.7%AmsterdamAmsterdam 81.3% 8.7% 9.0% 0.9%Overig Groot- 82.1% 8.5% 8.5% 0.9%AmsterdamHet Gooi en 79.7% 9.3% 9.9% 1.0%VechtstreekNetherlands 84.2% 7.7% 7.2% 0.8%Source: Statistics Netherlands Statline (2006c)Table 1-5: Employees by size of business (%)1 2-10 10-50 >50Almere 1.3% 8.8% 19.0% 70.9%Amstelveen 2.7% 10.7% 18.3% 68.3%Amsterdam 2.1% 9.5% 17.0% 71.4%Haarlem 1.8% 10.3% 19.3% 68.6%Haarlemmermeer 2.0% 11.0% 21.1% 65.9%Hilversum 2.6% 12.7% 21.0% 63.7%Purmerend 1.4% 10.4% 20.0% 68.5%Velsen 1.7% 11.7% 20.7% 65.9%Zaanstad 1.6% 10.3% 20.1% 68.1%Netherlands 1.9% 11.5% 22.0% 64.6%Source: Statistics Netherlands Statline (2005a)1.4.2 Research & developmentTable 1-6 shows the R&D expenditures in the province of Noord-Holland (which includes theAmsterdam metropolitan area) and the Netherlands. Data on the level of the metropolitan regionwere not available, so the province of Noord-Holland is used instead. The data indicate that R&Dexpenditures in Noord-Holland are below the national average for companies but above thenational average for research-institutions. The aggregated R&D expenditures for Noord-Hollandadd up to approximately 1.38% of the regional domestic product (compared to 1.72% nationwide).It should be noted that, in the estimation of R&D expenditures of universities in Noord-Holland, the ratio of R&D expenditures to the regional product is calculated for the year 2002,since more recent data are not available. What appears is that the lower fraction of GDP spent onR&D in Noord-Holland is not caused by the government sector and HEIs, but by the businesssector. In terms of R&D-investment, HEIs in Noord-Holland are not far behind other institutionsin the Netherlands and regional and local governments are even performing better than those inother parts of the Netherlands. Other indicators also give an ambiguous picture of the innovativestrength of Noord-Holland in comparison with the Netherlands as a whole. The employment in23
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HEIs to play this role, as it draws
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4 CONTRIBUTION OF TEACHING & LEARNI
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housing market, on the ‘buying ma
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transport, finance, financial manag
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The HEIs have several external and
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4.7 Enhancing the regional learning
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4.8 ConclusionTable 4-6: SWOTStreng
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Amsterdam is matched by a relative
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The challenge for future social pol
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The VU likewise develops research p
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directing, documentary directing, s
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the university to improve its energ
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6.1 Introduction6 CAPACITY BUILDING
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7 CONCLUSIONS: MOVING BEYOND THE SE
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at higher levels in order to mainta
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to increase the interaction between
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mobility in the world is slackening
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REFERENCESAalders, R., A. Bakkeren,
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EZ Amsterdam (2006), “Research Bu
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MinOCW (2007a), “The Education Sy
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SER (2008), “Duurzame Globaliseri
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Versleijen, A., van der Meulen, B.,
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Institution City Type ofHEIANNEX B:
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Groningenculture)Hogeschool Amsterd
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ANNEX C: KEY ECONOMIC INDICATORSTab
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ANNEX E: REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS OF A
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AmsterdamUniversity CollegeOther re
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ANNEX F: BUSINESSES REPRESENTED IN
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GLOSSARYBologna DeclarationForeign
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