Food Valley:12 ingredients forregional development and clusters

RELATOR:Frank Eetgerink

Blue River Concepts

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Netherlands, an empty city

Chile 18 milj. - 756.000 km2 - 24/km2

NL 17 milj. - 41.000 km2 - 400/km2

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Netherlands, different idea about authority

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Ingredient 1.

Long tradition in trade, knowledge sharing & collaboration

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• Early collaboration through establishments of Water Boards in 13th century

• True global value chains early 17th century, first multinationals, first stocks and shares (but also colonialism)

• Agricultural cooperatives start in Netherlands end of 19th century

• Now: ZLTO, Rabobank, FrieslandCampina, FloraHolland, The Greenery, For Farmers, AgriFirm

• From OVO-Triptych (research-guidance-education) to Triple Helix to Quadruple Helix

A history of collaboration in Dutch agrifood

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Opening Agricultural University of Applied Science, 9th of march 1918, with prince Hendrik

First students of the Agricultural University of Applied Science in 1879 at the main

building

• 1876 start National Agricultural education in Netherlands

• 1877 First agricultural research station in Wageningen

History of Wageningen UR

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Ingredient 2.

Critical mass of interconnected firms and institutions

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High Productivity

Added value per hectare (5x higher efficiency as EU average

Added value per Full Time Equivalent

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Ingredient 3.

Critical mass Logistic Hub

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Flow of goods in Europe

Source: Ministry of Economic Affairs, december 2013

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Ingredient 4.

Excellent (applied) Knowledge

In Agrofood

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Private investments in R&D (% of GNP)Nr of Agri-Food publications

Source: advisory report Topsector Agro&Food, 2011

Leading in Know-How & Innovation

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Center of KnowledgeFood & Feed production

• Royal Friesland Campina • Mead Johnson Nutrition • Arla• H.J. Heinz• Nutreco Holding• Denkavit• 2 Sisters Storteboom• Vion• Van Drie Group• Struik Foods Europe• Royal Fruitmasters Group• Royal VIV Buisman• Bieze Food Group• CSK food enrichment

Of the world’s 40 largest food & beverage companies 12 have a major production site or R&D facilities in the Netherlands.

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• 85% of the Dutch agri-food research capacity is located in Food Valley

• 2.600 agri-food companies, 28 research organisations

• 10.000 researchers, >1700 Phd’s

• 164 nationalities

• Centered at Wageningen University and Research Centre. Wageningen University: #1st Agricultural University of the World according to the National Taiwan University Ranking 2013.

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Ingredient 5.

Wageningen Campus

& Facility sharing

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Campus ecosystem

Campus ecosystem

University• Students / employees• Education• International• Known worldwide• Fundamental research• High quality / high rankings

Research institutes• Employees • Translation research from

fundamental to applied • International• Pre-competitive &

confidential projects

Spin-offs / SME• StartLife• Support & coaching starters• Incubator• Interaction & learning• (seed)capital

(Inter)national companies• R&D departments• Scientists • Own and shared facilities• Looking for interaction ánd

confidential surrounding

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Agrofood is going through a transformation

HIGH TECH TO FEED THE WORLD cross cluster dynamics

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• FrieslandCampina Research• DMV• Heinz Innovation Center• Danone Research• Kikkoman Europe R&D Laboratory• Keygene • Genetwister• NSure• Micreos• Check-Points• Isolife• Biqualys• CRV• Bfactory Health Products• Dyadic

Center of Knowledge, Research & Development

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Mass spectroscopyMicroscopy & imaging

Separation, characterisation & fractionation

Next generation sequencing & biomarker identification

+ other Wageningen UR equipment & facilities via our Search or contact us

CAT-AgroFood research facility sharing

• Facilities accessible for researchers from all organisations

• Use latest advances techniques – expand your own lab!

• Get in contact with expertise Wageningen UR

• Only pay for time you use the facility

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Cluster organisations

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Independent organisationSponsored by Province of Gelderland and company members

• International marketing / branding

• Support of small and medium sized enterprises

• Facilitate networking via Food Valley society of > 120 members

• Connect / collaborate with other Food Clusters

• Technology matchmaking

• Increase interaction between universities/ government and companies

• Yearly Food Valley Expo (2015: 900 people from + 20 countries)

Food Valley NL

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• Poultry (eggs and meat)

• Chain approach

• Commercialisation (international)

• Networking

• Sharing knowledge

• > 70 Members

• National scope

• Base: Barneveld

Dutch Poulty Centre

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Ingredient 7. Regional schemes supporting public private partnerships

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Go without Salt

• Developing new strategies for salt reduction in food

• Essensor BV (Ede), • Heinz BV (Nijmegen)• Koninklijke Euroma BV (Wapenveld)• NIZO food research BV (Ede)• National Starch & Chemical GmbH (Hamburg) • TNO (Zeist)

• Funding € 2.011.445

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Sport Nutrition: testing sport nutrition in a topsportrestaurant on the national olympic training centre

InnosportLab Papendal

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Incubation of spin offs

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• Extracurricular Education• StartHub facilities• Micro credits• Internship in start-up company• Mentoring program• Trainings & workshops• Peer network• Boot Camps

• Stage Gate Incubation• Pre-Seed fund• Coaching• Proof of Concept fund• Workshops – Master classes• Business network• Acceleration programs

Techno Start-up’s Students and scientists Food, Agro, Biobased with an entrepreneurial attitude

Target groups StartLife incubator

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• 42 start-up’s supported in pre-StartLife SKE period (2000-2009)

• 110 start-up’s contracted and supported by StartLife (2010-2015)

– 51 Start-up’s financed (3.6 M€ investement fund)– 32 follow-up investments – 16 student start-up’s supported

• Coaching and Networks

Metrics StartLife

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Funnel StartUps 2005 - 2015

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Business Development Support & Funding

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International Focus

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Ingredient 11.

People & Quality of Life

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Cooperation between local governments

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Nature

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Ingredient 12.

Branding & Story Telling

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All of the above is story telling and branding, maybe the most important ingredient of all to make a great taste!

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