Food and Drink Investment Programme 200812 Yorkshire

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Food and Drink Investment Programme
2008-12Yorkshire Humber

• John Sorsby
• Food and Drink Sector Manager

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Strategic View

• Regional Economic Strategy
• More Businesses that Start and Last (Enterprise)
• Making Businesses more competitive (Innovation)
• Regional Food and Drink Vision
• Creating an Enterprise and Innovation Region of
  Choice for New, Emerging and Established FD
  businesses.

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Work stream activity- 6 Ps

• Product Innovation
• Packaging Innovation
• Process Innovation
• People Innovation (Skills)
• Provenance
• Passport to Export
• Creating choice for all businesses irrespective
  of size or sector

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Financial Support

• FD Investment Programme 2008-12 supported by
  9.4M
• Product and Packaging Innovation 1.9M
• Process Innovation 1.4M
• Provenance and Export 4.0M
• (plus Farexchange 0.8M inc RDPE)
• Skills 1.0M
• Future proofing research 0.3M

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Delivery Partners

• 1. Product and Packaging Innovation- Consortium
  approach
• Food Processing Faraday Partnership
• Sheffield Hallam University
• Design Futures Centre of Industrial Collaboration
• Leeds Metropolitan University
• Regional Food Group- Technology Division
• 2. Process Innovation
• Centre for Food Robotics and Automation (CenFRA)

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Delivery Partners

• 3. Provenance and Export (plus Farexchange)-
  Consortium approach
• Regional Food Group-Marketing Division
• English Food Farming Partnerships
• Fare Solutions Ltd
• NFU
• YAS ( 6 other partners listed on the invitation)
• 4. Skills
• Focus on Food
• Regional Food Group-Skills Division

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Delivery Model- Triple Helix Approach

• Academia/Research
• Industry
• Public Sector

3.Offer
2.Support (Financial)
1.Opportunity
Pull (Momentum)
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Summary
Back of House
Front of House
Product
Partner 1 (consortium)
Packaging
Process
Vision
Partner 2
One Voice
Client
Provenance
Partner 3 (consortium)
Export
Partner 4
Skills
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Farexchange- Key Messages

• Funding collaboration over 3 years- Strategic
  Added Value
• 0.4M Yorkshire Forward
• 0.4M RDPE
• Key Message
• The creation of sustainable, regional value
  chains, where the value extracted is commensurate
  with the risk taken
• Leap and the net will appear- Farexchange can
  be the net that mitigates the risk of
  exploiting new opportunities
• A unique network of skills all working under the
  same banner