Innovatiepunt KAAP
Bring your innovation to life
The physical harbor in Zeeland to test, develop, and demonstrate innovations in Water, Food, and Energy.
Discover K Λ Λ PHow can we help?
I WANT Test at full scale Real-scale space, labs and equipment to prove your innovation. Go I WANT A space for a session A brainstorm, working session or demo day around water, food or energy. Meeting rooms you book online right away. Go I WANT A desk among innovators A shared workspace among the people working on the transitions. Go I WANT Join the ecosystem Meet the community working on water, food and energy. Go
The innovation hub
to accelerate.
At the Kenniswerf in Vlissingen, KAAP offers 4,000 m² of indoor and outdoor space to entrepreneurs, education, and government.
KAAP is the innovation hub of Zeeland. Here you get the physical space you need to turn an idea or product into reality: the step of testing, developing and demonstrating. Companies, education and government work together on the transitions in Water, Food and Energy, with space and equipment that are scarce elsewhere.
4.000 m²
indoor and outdoor space
14
free flex spots
3
transitions
Innovatiepunt
Bring
your water
innovation
to life
A transition is a structural change in how our society works. Not a temporary adjustment, but a shift in the whole system that takes decades.
What can you do at KAAP?
From the first sketch to demonstrating a prototype: KAAP facilitates every step in the innovation process.
01 Development and demo space Discover
Testing & Development
High-end facilities for real-scale validation and scaling of innovations to the market.
02 Workspaces Discover
Work
A shared workspace among the people working on water, food and energy.
03 Test kitchen Discover
Expertise & Facilities
Direct access to the test kitchen, workshops, and technical expertise for further development.
04 Network Discover
Community
Find the right partners, investors, and talent through our extensive network of partners.
Featured test activities
This is what happens inside KAAP
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The organisations behind KAAP
Our Partners in Innovation
Government, education, knowledge institutions, networks and companies that carry KAAP, test here or support it.
Strategic partners 
Test and development partners at KAAP 
Sponsors and ambassadors 
A Kaper story
“We verdrievoudigen hier direct de aansluiting.”
Saul OostHyer Power
Latest updates
What we shared on LinkedIn over the past weeks.
KAAP_innovatiepunt21 Sept
Something is brooding in Vlissingen EGG, the interactive artwork by Studio Puck van Dijk, stands in Oost-Souburg from 1 October. It was built and tested at KAAP with students, pupils and entrepreneurs.
KAAP_innovatiepunt18 Sept
Offshore wind you can touch Students of the Offshore Renewable Energy minor at HZ dropped by. A 32 metre blade, a nacelle from the inside and the control room: at KAAP it is all here.
KAAP_innovatiepunt18 Sept
Inside KAAP The OPZuid supervisory committee visited. Marlon showed how entrepreneurs, knowledge institutes and governments work on the transitions here together.
KAAP_innovatiepunt16 Sept
A grip on your energy question In the Living Lab Energy, companies, researchers and students test energy solutions together, for entrepreneurs running into grid congestion.
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KAAP community
The people behind the innovations
Entrepreneurs, students, researchers and partners working on water, food and energy. You are part of it the moment you do something here.
