Zoetermeer calls on companies for Innovation Award 2025
Municipality of Zoetermeer is again looking for Zoetermeer's most innovative entrepreneur in 2025. With the Innovation Award Zoetermeer 2025, the municipality wants to show how important innovative entrepreneurs are for the city. As of now, any Zoetermeer company that excels in innovative entrepreneurship can nominate itself for the prize.
Companies that stand out in innovative ways in their offerings or ways of working are eligible. An independent professional jury evaluates the nominations and, together with the public, arrives at a top 5. The final winner will be announced during the Entrepreneurs Festival.
Entrepreneurial Festival: Growing This Way!
The Entrepreneurs Festival, which takes place on November 18 during the Week of the Entrepreneur, is the stage for the award ceremony. The municipality organizes this event together with and for Zoetermeer entrepreneurs. The festival is all about progress, inspiration, knowledge sharing and making entrepreneurship visible in Zoetermeer.
Alderman Iedema: "There are many innovative entrepreneurs in our city, but they are often still too unknown. We are still too little collectively proud of them. We must show what entrepreneurs are doing here, also to inspire the broader SME community. This ranges from high-tech that you only understand half of, to innovative toilet cleaning solutions. It is often said that Zoetermeer is the city of applied innovation. The Innovation Award and an Entrepreneurs Festival are tangible expressions of that. Sharing knowledge, stimulating cooperation, making innovations visible and showing all the beautiful things that are happening here. We do this together, as a city! Together with entrepreneurs, we work on Zoetermeer as the city of applied innovation, where innovation is visible in practice."
Wide support
The Innovation Award is an initiative of the Municipality of Zoetermeer, Netwerk Zoetermeer, Dutch Innovation Community and Economic Board Zoetermeer. The award is part of the Entrepreneurs Festival Growth is how you do it! In addition to the above parties, the Entrepreneurs Festival is made possible by Rabobank Region The Hague, VNO-NCW West Region The Hague, MKB Digiwerkplaats, Mijn Zaak Zoetermeer, SEBO-Netwerk, NLwerktaanwerk, nlgroeit and Bureau Citymarketing Zoetermeer. The festival is widely supported by local SMEs and intermediaries, including Zoetermeer Businesswomen, Open Coffee Zoetermeer and Stichting Ondernemersklankbord.
Putting an innovative company on the map? This is the place
For more information and to nominate a company for the innovation award, visit zoetermeerisdeplek.
