1. UK Agri-Tech Innovation Ian Cox Lead Technologist Agri-Tech Centres
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2. 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?
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3. Sustainable Agriculture and Food – Innovation Platform (SAF IP),
£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
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4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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
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7. 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
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8. Agri Tech Centres
Agri Centres
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9. E-mail: ian.cox@innovateuk.gov.uk
Thank You
Any Questions?
Ian Cox
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