Powering collaboration and co-creation to build a smarter, more connected agri-tech future
Creating strategic roadmaps and mapping innovation opportunities for agri-tech development, we will help you identify emerging technologies and barriers to growth. Through thought leadership content on relevant industry topics, we also provide valuable insights across the agri-tech sector.
We identify emerging technologies, assessing their feasibility against end-user requirements, support their development and advise on strategies for their integration or adoption.
We design and deliver targeted prize challenges that stimulate innovation by inviting technology providers to solve specific, real-world problems. These open calls attract diverse solutions, with the most promising awarded the opportunity to collaborate.
We curate and host bespoke pitch days, bringing together a shortlist of high-potential technology providers to present their solutions directly to decision-makers. These events foster direct engagement and fast-track partnership opportunities.
Working in the pre-competitive space, we design and deliver open innovation programmes on your behalf—bringing together the right stakeholders to solve your most pressing challenges and unlock collaborative advantage.
We create open innovation programmes that unite industry, academia and innovators from beyond the sector—driving cross-sector collaboration, shared learning and the development of new facilities, partnerships and business models.
Open Innovation breaks down traditional silos, enabling knowledge and ideas to flow
freely across organisational boundaries. This approach fuels faster, more creative
solutions and empowers businesses to turn ideas into real-world impact.
At the UK Agri-Tech Centre, we envision a connected, skilled and agile agri-tech
ecosystem. Our bespoke Open Innovation programmes foster collaboration between
organisations, helping them explore shared challenges and unlock new opportunities.
Learn more about our work: from tackling climate change to labour availability, disease mitigation and environmental sustainability – proof of concept, deployment and impact.
Convert early-stage technology concepts into market-ready products and profitability. Benefit from some of the world’s best R&D facilities located throughout the UK.
Finding novel solutions for food security to support people and planet, we’re partnering with farmers, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs around the world.
We’re focused on all areas of crops, livestock and engineering and exploring new sectors within food, feed, fuel and fibres.
Join a diverse community from industry and science, committed to transforming UK food and farming. Doing better for businesses, the future of the agri-food sector and the planet.
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