Arjen Droog Vice Director Regio FoodValley The role of European regions and smart specialization to foster food system transformation Arjen Droog Vice Director Regio FoodValley

Spreading the word, feeding the world Wageningen University & Research, nesteled in Food Valley – the Dutch agro-tech version of Silicon Valley – is key to the Netherlands’ agricultural success.

Food 2030 – Plovdiv 14 & 15 May 2018 Carlos Moedas European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation “We have the potential to take agricultural innovation to a completely new level. Places like Food Valley in the Netherlands have already started. There you can find agri-tech start-ups and experimental farms everywhere. And even though the Netherlands lacks almost every resource necessary for large-scale agriculture, it is the number two exporter of food as measured by value globally. Second only to the United States, a country with 270 times the size of the Netherlands. Why? Because it has mastered the combination of research, innovation and agriculture.”

WHY Feeding the World

HOW Smart Specialisation Titel van presentatie - datum (dd mmmm yyyy) - Voornaam Achternaam

WHAT FOOD 2030 Titel van presentatie - datum (dd mmmm yyyy) - Voornaam Achternaam

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Joint Resarch & Innovation Program Orchestrate a regional answer to FOOD2030 priorities Innovation and empowerment of communities Adopting a mission-oriented approach as presented in the Mazzucato report Create a platform to further foster and boost promissing developments within our regions to create regional growth