A new 'online portal' will help make links between food entrepreneurs in need of research, business advice or facilities, and providers of these services.
The Food Innovation Network, which has just been announced by Defra Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom, is intended to boost British food enterprises by linking industrial, business and academic expertise.
The portal currently includes a useful 'Agrifood timeline' that dates various technological developments and explains their impact on the food supply.
Defra - along with partners the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Enterprise Partnership and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) - appointed the Knowledge Transfer Network as the coordinator of the project.
Simon Baty, from the Knowledge Transfer Network, said, 'The Food Innovation Network will identify the innovation needs of agri-food businesses and connect them with research experts, so they can transform their superlative science into valuable, innovative and commercial products.'
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Published Thursday 27 October 2016
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