Dissemination webinar: Agri-Tech Global Expert Mission in Australia

To help UK businesses become truly global enterprises through strategic collaboration, Innovate UK launched its Global Expert Missions in October 2017. Delivered by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), the missions provide an expert-led evidence base to strengthen Innovate UK’s global investment strategy: how and where it should invest to create UK business opportunities in partnerships with key economies.

Each mission has representatives from UK business, policy and research community, who:

1. Gather market insights and build expert foresights on new and emerging innovation sectors
2. Identify opportunities for international collaboration
3. Build a portfolio of technological and business priorities that will elevate the UK as the ‘Partner of Choice’ in future innovation partnerships with global partners
4. Facilitate international dialogues for the UK business community
5. Align innovation policy and unlock regulatory barriers for future partnerships

In February 2019, an Expert Mission travelled to Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. This Mission sought to inform the UK’s international Agri-Tech Innovation strategy by exploring the Australian agri-tech landscape and examining opportunities to collaborate with Australian organisations. The UK delegation held meetings with a number of Australian stakeholders from industry, academia and government and insights from the Mission can be found in the Innovate UK Global Expert Mission ‘Agri-Tech Innovation in Australia 2019’ dissemination report. This successful mission was followed up by a Global Business Innovation Programme trip to Australia in February 2020.

This event will present the findings of the output report and give delegates the opportunity to talk directly with representatives who went on the Mission. The agenda (TBC) will likely include:

14.00: Welcome and introduction – KTN
14.05: Key findings from the GEM reports – Innovate UK
14.20: Thoughts from Mission members – mission attendees
14.30: Interactive session – KTN
14.40: Questions from the audience – Panel including Innovate UK and key members of each mission
15.00: Final thoughts and close – KTN

For those interested, there will be a separate event to disseminate the findings of the 2019 Agri-Tech GEM to New Zealand on 27th April. Details can be found here.

Coronavirus

You, like us, will be only too aware of the fast-developing situation with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. The safety and wellbeing of our attendees and staff is our priority and, with this in mind, we will be holding this event as an online webinar.

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Connecting people to collaborate and drive change through innovation has never been more important. Thank you for continuing to engage and we look forward to meeting you ‘online’ at this event.

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