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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide. At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that some 18 million people will ultimately become affected, including 6.7 The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date. Giving by funder type.

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China calls on the Netherlands to uphold market principles amid new Dutch export controls on chip-making equipment

TechNode

The Netherlands announced an expansion of export controls on chip-making machines last Friday, prompting China’s Ministry of Commerce to express dissatisfaction with the move. 6, the Dutch government said it would expand export licensing requirements for ASML’s 1970i and 1980i DUV (deep ultraviolet) immersion lithography tools.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

Fast Company Tech

Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Grazing cattle is sustainable and efficient on the Argentinian Pampas, but not so easily done at scale on the polders of the Netherlands. Listen to the audio versionread by Julian himselfin the Next Big Idea App.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Here are five takeaways about global trends in the public’s trust in NGOs: 1. By comparison, business was trusted in 15 countries and distrusted in two.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe

TechCrunch

And just today, yet another online-only grocery delivery startup, Crisp in the Netherlands , raised $36 million (€30 million), and Flink in Germany raised $52 million , with both of those deals led by Target Global. Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global.

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