"People are the crucial factor" behind Flanders winning development strategy and its successes in research centers like imec, VITO, VIB and the Holst Center, according to Nathalie Cogghe of the Flanders Investment & Trade investment promotion agency.
As Director of Inward Investment, Europe & The Americas, Cogghe is part of a global economic development team based in Brussels, that includes a number of technology specialists deployed around the world.
Like all such agencies, FI&T offers companies and prospective investors the usual tax, real estate and location incentives, but it also offers special knowledge-based incentives, including "incentives for people working in R&D" where employers get a tax benefit that amounts to a "very significant cost saving."
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