Agrifood business and innovation calls event
The event ‘Agribusiness organizational challenges and European tools for incorporating innovation’ is being held by the Aroma Innovation Hub on Friday February 2018 at the Orange Grove (17:00-19:00, Vas. Konstantinou 5-7). Taking part in the event is the National Documentation Centre, National Contact Point for Horizon 2020, co-ordinator for Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas, the Greek node of the largest international innovation and entrepreneurship network Enterprise Europe Network and member of the European project INNO-4-AGRIFOOD.
The newest businesses in the agricultural sector fail or remain stagnant, even if they begin with unique products and high expectations. To a certain extent, this is a result of a lack of understanding of the customers and their needs. The antidote is for businesses, from the very beginning, to listen to the final recipients of their products. The good practices of the agricultural industry in Holland and elsewhere lead the way in the new organisational business structure and the focus on stakeholders.
George Megas, a consultant for Horizon 2020 at the National Documentation Centre (EKT), will present the online funding and innovation opportunities for agribusiness. As co-ordinator for Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas, EKT supports innovative and outward-looking enterprises in 17 areas, including Agri-food, in acquiring access to new markets and capital for Research and Development through funding programmes and tools such as Horizon 2020 and the SME Instrument. In addition, through EKT’s personalised advisory and management services for innovation and scaling up of business, interested parties can be helped in their search for suitable technology to improve innovation. Finally, he will present the opportunities available through the European consortium INN-4-AGRIFOOD, the objective of which is the fostering of co-oeration of more than 11 million SMEs in the Agri-food sector, providing online collaboration opportunities, tools and applications for the improvement of collaboration in this sector.
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