Successful activities, experiences of the Hungarian National Technology Platform

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Successful activities, experiences of the
Hungarian National Technology Platform Food for
Life (1)

• Using reputation, existing links, information
  channels of the national federation (ÉFOSZ
  FHFI) to involve the industry and the government
• Development of agreed national innovation
  strategy of the food industry
• identifying priorities
• focusing efforts
• submitting to several government departments
• Lobbying at the government
• Recovery of acknowledgement of the food industry
  innovation as a priority area for research
  funding
• Transfer of information from and to the ETP

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Successful activities, experiences of the
Hungarian National Technology Platform Food for
Life (2)

• Starting consultation between the industry and
  the researchers how to improve mutual
  understanding and collaboration
• Benefits of SMEs-NET project
• Survey of industry needs
• Identifying main problems, hurdles
• Benchmarking
• Running the NTP at low cost
• short, cheap meetings combined with other
  events
• networking
• no participation fee
• Regular, repeated communication every two
  months
• Repeated efforts for receiving funding