ICT sector - Brussels

Why set up your company in Brussels

Setting up your digital business in Brussels

The Brussels-Capital Region offers you the ideal conditions to guarantee your company’s expansion in Europe. Only 1 hour 20 minutes from Paris and less than 2 hours from Amsterdam and Cologne, Brussels benefits from a central position in Europe:

Favourable rent prices and a unique aid to rent or purchase business premises for your activity.
The service “Brussels Business Welcome Package” allows companies to benefit for free during 3 years from a working space and a tailor-made accompaniment.
Unlimited exemption from social charges for the first employee and substantial reduction for the next five workers.

Brussels currently houses more than 2,000 ICT companies:

Implementation of the plan “NextTech Brussels” which promotes the creation of ICT companies: 20 concrete actions aiming at encouraging entrepreneurship in Brussels
More than 30,000 employees and an annual turnover of 4.5 billion euros
Cutting-edge technologies: IoT, Big Data, virtual and augmented reality

Digital infrastructures in Brussels

The city of Brussels has created a complete ecosystem dedicated to virtual reality, software and audio-visual production:

The cluster “Software” brings together more than 200 businesses, institutions, experts and research institutes for software research.
The cluster “Screen” promotes the development of the audio-visual industry: networking, aid to productions and so on.
“MediaPark” is a new district which houses 60 companies of the media sector. 30,000 m² are still available for setting up your business.