Stimulate and connect
- Edited 20 March 2026
- 1 min
KVK supports entrepreneurs so that they can seize opportunities and face challenges. We do this together with a range of stakeholders, each with their own role in the ecosystem. By working together more effectively, we ensure that businesses receive faster and more targeted support.
Entrepreneurs often face challenging situations: starting, growing, doing business internationally, innovating, coping with a crisis. These all require specialist knowledge. A search for the right information often involves many different agencies. And entrepreneurs are not always informed about relevant laws and regulations. As a result, many entrepreneurs miss out on opportunities or are at higher risk for fines or other problems due to unlawful practices.
Effective cooperation in the field of entrepreneurship
To solve this, KVK and partners want to improve cooperation between various organisations serving small and medium-sized businesses. We are working towards a direct and functional referral system. So that entrepreneurs are directed straight to the right organisation with the correct knowledge, without having to search. By clarifying roles, reducing fragmentation, and improving connectivity, we can create a more streamlined system for the provision of services to entrepreneurs.
We are doing this by organising activities together with other stakeholders and sharing information. For example, around futureproofing, growth capacity, financing, international business, starting up, and sustainable business. We also help entrepreneurs and stakeholders with useful information on (regional) economic developments and entrepreneurial data based on the KVK Business Register and other data sources.
The aim: a cohesive system and network of knowledge partners that offers entrepreneurs personalised, wide-ranging, and proactive information and support, wherever they live and whatever their needs may be.
The KVK approach
How do we help entrepreneurs? The KVK Advice Team answers individual entrepreneur's questions and, if necessary, refers them directly to the right knowledge partner.
Our relationship managers take a proactive role and initiate connections with and between (regional) stakeholders. In this way, we are building a network in which public sector organisations work together efficiently, via the most direct route, with the right expertise and a view to the human factor. The aim is for entrepreneurs to know what they may and may not do in order to make informed choices and take confident decisions.
Concrete initiatives
This is what KVK and partners are doing to improve the provision of services:
- KVK Figures and offers you valuable (regional) data and useful analyses for research and policy.
- At the regional , experts from various organisations are available in one place to help entrepreneurs with personal advice.
- Want to know more? Take a look at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate’s SME services action 2024-2026 (in Dutch).
Contact us
Do you see opportunities to help entrepreneurs move forward together with KVK and other stakeholders? Our relationship managers will be happy to engage with you and put you in touch with the right people or teams: regio@kvk.nl
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