Amsterdam to lead cross-city start-up collaboration

Amsterdam is in ongoing discussions with Barcelona and Dublin to work closer to emulate and scale up its successful Start-up in Residence programme.
The Dutch capital has just concluded its fourth edition of the 12-week programme which partners with start-ups to innovate to solve city challenges which can then be procured.

“We all have challenges as bigger cities and we can collaborate on those challenges together to come up with solutions that fit us all,” Minouche Cramer, Start-up Officer, City of Amsterdam told Cities Today. “The start-ups that respond could test in Barcelona and then test in Amsterdam.”

This year’s edition saw Amsterdam include surrounding municipalities in the re...