Agri-tech and food technology, Mid and North Wales

This funding is from Innovate UK’s launchpad programme. The launchpad programme supports the UK government’s goals for local economic growth. This launchpad also supports Growing Mid Wales as the local cluster management organisation.

The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses.

• Your business must use the funding to grow your innovation activities in the agri-tech and food technology cluster in Mid and North Wales, both during and after the project.
• Your project can focus on the agri-tech and food technology markets in Mid and North Wales as well as global opportunities for scaling and commercialising your innovation.
• For this competition, Mid and North Wales consists of Ceredigion, Powys, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Wrexham.

Your project must contribute to growing your innovation activities in the cluster, both during and after your project.

Your ongoing contribution could be demonstrated by:

• Local innovation activities
• The value that your innovation activities create in the cluster
• An increase in related innovation activity by ongoing partners or subcontractors in the cluster
• Engagement with other active innovation organisations in the cluster, such as Growing Mid Wales and Ambition North Wales with support from AberInnovation and M-SParc, this launchpad’s cluster management organisation

Your project can focus on one or more of the following themes:

Productivity, quality, nutritional value, resilience, and resource efficiency

• Crops, livestock, aquaculture, or food products
• Improving resource and supply chain efficiency through precision farming, logistics, circular models, smart tech, or biotech excluding biochar

Food processing, manufacturing, and developing new markets

• Healthy, sustainable, regionally relevant novel foods or ingredients
• Rural or small-scale food processing, packaging, safety, and byproduct use
• Adapting produce to create new market opportunities

Sustainability, biodiversity, and rural resilience

• Livestock health through precision diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, or antimicrobial stewardship
• Regenerative or nature-based practices that support landscape health or climate resilience
• Farming practices that support the future of farming
• Adaptive land management supporting changing land conditions