impulse.brussels Information

impulse.brussels (formerly known as the Brussels Enterprise Agency) is a key strategic regional partner for Brussels based businesses. It offers high-quality, timely and appropriate business information and tools to foreign investors, local start-ups and SMEs and provides them with support in areas such as starting up, financing, public grants, town planning regulations, environmental permits and other formalities. With its extensive knowledge of all business support services in Brussels, Impulse is the main gateway to find the suitable public or private partner. Impulse also encourages business competitiveness through innovation and internationalization and gives intensive support to promising entrepreneur projects or businesses or that are of critical or extreme importance to the Brussels-Capital region, in particular in the areas of life technologies, ICT and green technologies. Impulse’s advice and services are free of charge and independent. Impulse is publicly funded by the Brussels Regional Government and is also known as the “Agence bruxelloise pour l’Entreprise or ABE (French name) or “Brussels Agentschap voor de Onderneming” or BAO (Dutch name).