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Food and Drink Investment Programme 2008-12 Yorkshire & Humber. John Sorsby Food and Drink Sector Manager. Strategic View. Regional Economic Strategy: More Businesses that Start and Last (Enterprise) Making Businesses more competitive (Innovation) Regional Food and Drink Vision:
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Food and Drink Investment Programme 2008-12Yorkshire & Humber John Sorsby Food and Drink Sector Manager
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 F&D businesses.”
Work stream activity- 6 P’s • Product Innovation • Packaging Innovation • Process Innovation • People Innovation (Skills) • Provenance • Passport to Export • Creating choice for all businesses irrespective of size or sector
Financial Support • F&D 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
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)
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
Delivery Model- Triple Helix Approach Academia/Research Industry Public Sector 3.Offer 2.Support (Financial) 1.Opportunity Pull (Momentum)
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
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