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It's code red in the Dutch tech industry. The government has neither vision nor strategy. Large tech companies are no longer investing and want to go abroad, Jeroen van Glabbeek of CM.com also sees.

The director of the marketing and telecom company from Breda is sounding the alarm on LinkedIn.

In his experience, it is one for twelve and sometimes already too late.

"Without exception, all Dutch top tech entrepreneurs I know are winding down their investments in the Netherlands and expanding those abroad, which means that on balance knowledge and money is disappearing from the Netherlands to other countries where things are better off."

With this, he is publicly responding to the worries surrounding ASML, in unprecedentedly large tech giant from Veldhoven. That does want to stay in the Netherlands, but gets zero support and perspective from the government. CEO Peter Wennink speaks at the highest possible political level, hoping to save the day. But he also observes, and Van Glabbeek with him, that the Netherlands is no longer a pleasant place of business that facilitates him.

The CEO of CM.com articulates the wishes of many other entrepreneurs when he says that: 1) employees want to be able to give options to co-workers, 2) the expat rule cannot disappear, 3) want to be able to buy back shares out of profits untaxed, and 4) do not want to have to pay for two years of sick leave.

"Despite this, there is a lot of enthusiasm among the founders and CEOs to put more effort into improving the establishment climate for Tech companies in the Netherlands, by organizing meetings and offering mentoring to start-ups and scale-ups. Also, the founders of many tech companies are reinvesting in other tech companies.

This morning, dredging company Boskalis, a very Dutch company, announced that it will open a second headquarters in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. "By now almost 300 colleagues with 20 different nationalities are already working here. This number is expected to double in the coming years."

The headquarters of Shell and Unilever are already gone.

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