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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
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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
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