Our data partners are:

• The Chamber of Commerce (KVK) is the official and independent Dutch administrative body for businesses. They offer information, advice, and support to entrepreneurs in the important themes of the entrepreneurial field. Their statutory tasks are aimed at registering, informing, and advising entrepreneurs. The Trade Register is the basic registration in which all companies and legal entities are registered. All other organizations that participate in economic transactions are also included in this register. Researchers and students with access to FIRMBACKBONE can use this trade register. For more information on KVK, click here.
• The LISA Foundation (Stichting LISA – in Dutch) collects employment data, area classification and the basic registration for addresses and buildings (BAG-registratie) for all establishments in the Netherlands where paid labour takes place. These data are collected (roughly) at the province level and combined by LISA into one register.
• The Dutch top-level domain registrar, Stichting Internet en Domeinregistratie Nederland (SIDN) has the aim to provide added value to the online community and presence of the Netherlands. This is done through the registration of the .nl-domain names and safeguarding the standardisation and quality thereof. Moreover, they are actively contributing to maintaining the reliability and quality of the online community.

Our knowledge partners are:

• The Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations (ODISSEI) is the national research infrastructure for the social sciences in the Netherlands. ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise, and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social inquiry. After the initial development of the FIRMBACKBONE project, long-term governance will be assured through the ODISSEI organization. For more information on ODISSEI, click here.
• The ICT infrastructure for Dutch educational and research institutions (SURF) provides digital services and acts as a knowledge sharing body to these institutions. They provide a pioneering and supporting role in the transition to digital learning. At the same time their goal is to keep digital sovereignty and security at a high level. This results in many services that their member institutions can make use of or further develop with SURF in unison.