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Amsterdam Topstad programme.Creative Cities Amsterdam Area: Creative Cities Amsterdam Area (CCAA) is a programmeinitiated in 2007 by national and local government, two Chambers of Commerce, and sevendevelopment associations. CCAA stimulates the creative industry in seven cities in theAmsterdam metropolitan region (Almere, Amsterdam, Zaanstad, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Hilversumand Haarlem). It is targeted at the following three creative industries: arts, media andentertainment, and creative professional services. CCAA offers national and internationalcompanies access to the creative potential of the region. Conversely, it also helps the region’screative companies find the right facilities to stimulate their entrepreneurialism. The programmedoes this through three key activities:• Concentrating information and activities, by bringing them together in a single physicaland digital location (www.creativeamsterdam.nl);• Facilitating, by improving services to foreign companies and to start-ups and growthcompanies;• Promoting the creative industries in the region to attract national and internationalattention.Life Sciences Center Amsterdam: The Life Sciences Center Amsterdam (LSCA) is an initiativein which the TTOs of multiple life sciences centers work together on knowledge valorization.LSCA has been established on initiative of Amsterdam Topstad and AIM by the followingAmsterdam based knowledge institutions:• UvA/AMC;• VU/VUmc;• Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI);• Sanquin.LSCA functions as an intermediary between these organizations and private parties who areinterested in licensing new life science technologies.iMMovator Cross Media Network: Networking organization aimed at strengthening the crossmediasector with an emphasis on innovation and economic return. Cross-media means thecontinuing integration of radio, television, internet, mobile technology, print and events.Immovator Hilversum focuses on the cross-media industry in the Amsterdam metropolitanregion. Participants in this networking organization are local governments, chambers ofcommerce, media companies, the Rabobank, Atos Origin, Syntens and several HEIs.Almere Kennisstad: Almere Kennisstad is a programme that aims to contribute to the economicand social development of Almere by using ICT in several sectors of society. Almere Kennisstadalso wants to strengthen the position of Almere in the Netherlands and that of the widerAmsterdam metropolitan region. It supports several projects related to the following themes:building and living, economy, mobility and security, education and research, and care andwellbeing. It furthermore organizes workshops, seminars and conferences.Source: MinEZ (2009b), Syntens (2009), KVK (2009), AIM (2009a), KKA (2009), AmsterdamTopstad (2009), CCAA (2009), Immovator (2009), Almere Kennisstad (2009), TechnoPartner(2009)Cooperation starts by organizing stakeholders and drawing up a joint vision or strategy forpromoting innovation. In the Amsterdam region several joint efforts were established to answerthe important question: what direction should innovation take and how should the region promotethis goal? The Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) of the Chamber of Commerce is widely62