Partners

Food & Bio Cluster Denmark is a non-profit nationwide cluster organization for food and bio resources. It is the unifying platform for innovation and growth in the cluster for Danish and international companies and knowledge institutions. FBCD promotes increased collaboration between knowledge and business, and offers members one entrance to e.g. networks, funding, business development and projects. FBCD was founded in 2020, by a merger between four Danish clusters to form a new “supercluster”, one of the largest of its kind in Europe with 250+ members. FBCD manages regional, national, and international projects centred around innovation, financing, and internationalisation within food and bio resources.

TechTour brings together active corporates and investors in Europe with promising entrepreneurs. Throughout the years, TechTour Global (Bulgaria) together with its sister companies TechTour International (Switzerland) and Europe Unlimited (Belgium) helps entrepreneurs and investors realise their full journey of innovation, from the initial concept all the way through to valuation. TechTour has become one of the largest investor-oriented communities in Europe connecting entrepreneurs, investors and corporate partners from across the world.

CLIB is an international open innovation cluster for bioeconomy with a focus on industrial biotechnology. The approximately 100 cluster members are large (multinational) companies, SMEs, universities, academic institutes as well as other stakeholders active in the bioeconomy. Founded in 2007, CLIB has more than 10 years of experience in connecting stakeholders along and across value chains; in helping to set up project consortia, in developing tech transfer strategies, in providing policy advice and in promoting industrial biotechnology as a key driver for a sustainable bio- and circular economy. CLIB is active as a partner in several German and European projects, including as a coordinator.

Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA) is a private foundation that was born from a public-private partnership. For almost 15 years, CTA has been supporting R&D activities through financing, mentoring and cooperation with main Andalusian stakeholders, emerging as a singular multi-sectorial, innovation cluster. More than 670 R&D business projects have been funded by CTA with more than €M168. Currently, CTA is owned by more than 160 companies, 70% of them SMEs, in 7 main European industrial priority sectors: ICT, Aerospace and productive processes, Agri-food, Biotechnology, Building and civil engineering, Energy and Environment, and Leisure and Tourism.

The Consorzio Italbiotec is the leading Italian non-profit organisation on biotechnology ecosystem. Established in 1998, Italbiotec brings together 55 innovators operating in Life Science, Bioeconomy and Agrofood sectors. It combines the expertise of 14 leading Italian universities, the National Research Council and more than 40 SMEs. Italbiotec stands for biotechnology innovation promotion and broad application, environmental sustainability and knowledge sharing. Italbiotec works on creating a permanent and cutting-edge platform to boost innovation by providing advanced services in Innovation management, Fundraising and strategic investments, communication and training.

Foodscale Hub helps food start-ups accelerate their growth, open to new markets and find investors. FSH is a not-for-profit organisation bringing together experts from food production business, food design, retail, tech & investment management with proven track record of scaling agtech, foodtech and food brands in the United States, Norway, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. The organisation partners equally with start-ups and corporations to create an ambience to support food innovation, creativity and digital transformation providing companies with solutions to sustainably grow their food brands.

EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted. Originally founded as an international non-profit association with headquarters in Leuven, Belgium and 5 regional centres located in Belgium, Germany, Spain, UK and Poland, to cover all the European countries from which its members come. The initiative is made up of a consortium of >110 key industry players, startups, research centres and universities from across Europe. It is one of eight Innovation Communities established by the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), an independent EU body set up in 2008 to drive innovation and entrepreneurship across Europe.

The Irish Bioeconomy Foundation is Ireland’s national bioeconomy association and innovation cluster. IBF was founded in 2017 to establish a forum of industry, academia and policy leaders around Ireland’s bioeconomy. IBF promotes the conversion of Ireland’s natural land and sea resources to high value products for the development of a sustainable bioeconomy that is globally competitive and creates local development. IBF facilitates relations among innovative agribusiness, forestry, marine, energy and bioeconomy champions; Generates synergies between sustainable initiatives; Enables innovative projects to reach their next level; Creates an integrated ecosystem of converging assets and ambitions.

Q-PLAN is an innovation and management consulting company that has its focus on provision of business and innovation support services. Q-PLAN International Advisors PC is established in 2000 and focuses on the: (i) provision of business and innovation support services to entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs (over 500 clients); (ii) design, management and implementation of European innovation support and research projects, support actions and policy studies in various sectors, such as agriculture, bioeconomy, energy (bio-energy included), environment, etc. and their related vertical and horizontal business networks and value chains; and (iii) development, implementation and auditing of Management Systems according to respective standards and regulations.

Sustainable Innovations is a Spanish consultancy that provides services to a wide range of sectors. We are work with European companies from the bio-based industry, renewable energy, advanced materials, among others. The core competencies offered by Sustainable Innovations are structured in three main pillars which bridge the gap between ideas and market: Innovation Management, Market Uptake of Innovative Solutions, and Capacity Building. Likewise, one of the company’s main value lies in the highly qualified and multi-cultural-disciplined talented team of engineers, environmentalists, communication experts, and business strategists that makes up its team.