UK Agri-Tech Innovation Ian Cox Lead Technologist Agri-Tech Centres OFFICIAL

UK’s innovation agency for business... We accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation. A focus on business…. How can we help UK business bring new ideas and technologies more quickly to market? OFFICIAL

Sustainable Agriculture and Food – Innovation Platform (SAF IP) 2009-2014, £90M+ programme of investment over 5 yrs Funded over 200 industry-led collaborative projects Dual challenge - increasing UK agricultural productivity - decrease environmental impact of agriculture Co-funded by Innovate UK (£50m) DEFRA (£30m) BBSRC (£10m) , and other partners OFFICIAL

SAF-IP Thematic calls New Approaches to Crop protection (2010) Sustainable Protein Production (2011) Food Processing & Manufacturing Efficiency (2012) Nutrition For Life (2011 & 13) Trait Measurement Technologies (2013) Engineering Solutions (2013/14) Crop & Livestock Disease Control (2014) Improving Food Supply Chain Efficiency (2014/15) Optimising Food Composition (2015)

Agri-Tech Strategy Launched 22 July 2013 Aims to improve the translation of research into practical application for agriculture and related industries in UK and overseas £160M government investment over 5yrs: Agri-tech Catalyst (£70m) Centres for Agricultural Innovation (£90m)   Headline £160M. Catalyst - for translational research: £60M plus £10M from DFID where relevant to international development  TSB launched first call in October. Centres £90M for ‘a small number’ of centres, inc up to £10M for a ‘Centre for agricultural informatics and metrics of sustainability’.  Plans for establishing the centres are under development; the centres are expected to build on existing facilities, in public and private sectors.

Agri-Tech Catalyst Agri-Tech Catalyst £70m investment to support agricultural innovations 120 projects funded to date across 5 funding rounds Grant funding to support industry-relevant collaborative projects that tackle challenges in agriculture Department for International Development are contributing £10m to meet developing country challenges in agriculture through collaboration with UK and eligible international partners OFFICIAL

Agri-Tech Centres 4 Centres opened Agrimetrics - Big Data Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) CIELivestock - Livestock nutrition, health and genetics Agri-EPI - Engineering Precision All are open access platforms to be used by anyone Deliver Applied Research to solve industry problems Will work together as a family of Centres All have matched industry funding Dissemination of research is a key role OFFICIAL

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E-mail: ian.cox@innovateuk.gov.uk Thank You Any Questions? Ian Cox E-mail: ian.cox@innovateuk.gov.uk OFFICIAL