The technology and innovation region Brainport Eindhoven will generate another 115,000 jobs over the next 25 years, but a shortage of housing and workers may scupper development, new research has shown.

Estimates spanning the next 15 years already predicted 70,000 new jobs, including 20,000 at chipmaker ASML from 2028.

An updated but as yet unpublished long-term infrastructure study by regional officials and seen by the AD has concluded that the region is likely to spawn a total of 115,000 more jobs.

The region has a shortage of highly trained workers, but also people with vocational skills, as the number of local workers reaching pensionable age is increasing.

That means an increase in people from other regions and abroad, the report said, and the need to build more homes. However, the researchers expect the construction programme won’t gain momentum until 2030.

The losers of the possible competition for space and staff will be less affluent companies with lower-skilled staff, who will have to travel further to work, the researchers said.

The report also concluded that questions about the social costs of the economic development of the region are “not being asked”.

The local authorities in the region, united in the Metropool Regio Eindhoven, are meeting ministers in November to talk about the investments needed to facilitate growth and prevent negative effects.