AGRIFOOD 2030: THE FOUNDATION FOR A LONG TERM STRATEGY...
AgriFood 2030: the foundation for a long-term strategy... A single infopoint for entrepreneurs, joint research facilities and even more opportunities to share knowledge. Within a few months, companies will begin to notice the changes the new AgriFood 2030 program is bringing. “We will be making our regional collaboration even stronger,” says Roger van Hoesel , Managing Director at Foodvalley and one of the initiators. “This region can become the Silicon Valley of agriculture and food”. Knowledge intensive ecosystem... Both inside and outside the Netherlands, Foodvalley has a reputation to maintain as the knowledge-intensive ecosystem for innovation in healthy and sustainable food. “In this region, companies work openly and fully together and the whole world comes here to make their new innovations real,” says Van Hoesel. “Yet we are still not getting everything possible out of this ecosystem.” For example, many initiatives are often financed for only a short period. “Halfway through...