Circular City Ports - Synthesis
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05 Providing a framework and space for<br />
entrepreneurs to test, develop and launch<br />
new technologies<br />
Prodock in Amsterdam<br />
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Prodock is the innovation hub of the Amsterdam<br />
port where entrepreneurs, both growing and established,<br />
can develop and roll out their products and<br />
processes. Prodock offers 4000m2 industrial workshop,<br />
office and outdoor space where, in a ‘plug &<br />
play’ way, can be rented. The port of Amsterdam is<br />
rather isolated from the city and industrial in scale<br />
and activities... Offering space and facilities for<br />
testing attracts new kinds of entrepreneurs that can<br />
foster new synergies and symbiosis between port<br />
and city.<br />
05 Environmental legislation space Port of Amsterdam<br />
A study has been conducted on business sites, along<br />
the West-as of the Amsterdam region, suitable and<br />
necessary for a circular economy. Herein, the port is<br />
of strategic importance: land is scarce and the economies<br />
(of the port) are shifting. Material flows, crossing<br />
the region (also coming from international networks),<br />
can be processed inside the area of the port,<br />
where certain infrastructure is already there. Now,<br />
because of new dynamics inside the port area (ex.<br />
Prodock), a differentiation of various kind of zones,<br />
related to the right environmental space, is on the<br />
agenda. But how does it relate to the ongoing urbanization<br />
(of the port)?
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