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Agri-Tech

The commercial benefits of innovating in the UK

Agri-Tech - The commercial benefits of innovating in the UK

Janet Bainbridge ATO CEO

The UK Agri tech strategy 2 years on…………………..

For us in UKTI it is all about business support (Trade support for UK companies and

helping overseas companies invest and add value to the UK)

FOR COMPANIES:

We can now easily articulate to you the benefits of investment in the UK

FOR RESEARCHERS/RESEARCH PROVIDERS:

We can help you find commercial partners and support any commercialisation of your

work

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UK Industry Overview – still critical for world food security

UK agri-food supply chain

• Agriculture and fishing to final retailing

and catering

• Worth £96 billion (7% of GVA)

• Employs 3.8 million people

UK agriculture

• Employs 450,000

• Contributes £9 billion to economy

UK exports

• £22 billion of food, feed and drink in 2013

• One of the top 12 food and drink exporters

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UK Industry Overview

UK - gateway to Europe

The EU is a major market

• Combined agricultural GVA of €145

billion in 2010

The EU is a large investor in R&D

• Combined spend on agricultural R&D

by 13 western European economies is

$4 billion (the USA spends $7 billion).

• The European Commission is a

significant funder of research

• The new European Innovation

Partnership on Agricultural Productivity

and Sustainability supports closer links

between researchers and farmers

UK Government funded bodies (e.g.

Innovate UK and BBSRC)

• Spent £480 million on R&D (2012-

2013)

Key Industry Sectors

• The UK Agri-Tech industry comprises

four key sectors:

- Precision Agriculture

- Plant Science

- Animal Health

- Aquaculture

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THE UK Agri-Tech Strategy - a reminder

Public sector research

There is increased significant public

sector investment in agricultural

research

• Over £480 million each year from

Government agencies

• £90 million investment in world-class

Centers for Agricultural Innovation

– Part of the Government’s UK Strategy for

Agricultural Technologies

– Innovation Centers will support the wide-

scale adoption of innovation and

technology across key sectors,

technologies and skills in the food and

farming supply chain

– This includes up to £10 million for a

Centre for Agricultural Informatics and

Metrics of Sustainability which will use

data from farms, laboratories and retailers

to drive innovation, helping the UK exploit

the potential of big data and informatics

• Creating a £70 million Agri-Tech

Catalyst

– Will improve the translation of research

into practice

– Includes £10 million to support the

transfer of technology and new products

to developing countries

– Now 77 confirmed catalyst projects

funded

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Where are we now?

Leadership Council Established

Government teams in BIS and UKTI –

soon to be joined as a ‘hub’

UKTI AGRI Tech Organisation (ATO)

set up with 13 staff including specialists

2 in the US (A key market for us)

We are building on strengths

Innovate UK catalysts very successful:

https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/bioscienc

esktn/agri-tech-catalyst

Government has launched first of the 4

Centres of Excellence:

Agri Metrics Centre Launched October

2015 by Ministers

Other centres subject to business plan

clarification but will be formally

announced soon

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UK Advantage

Opportunities for growth

Key sectors are:

• Plant breeding

• Plant nutrition

• Plant health

• Animal breeding

• Animal health

• Agri-engineering

• Animal health

• Aquaculture

• Sensor technologies for field mapping,

disease mapping, yield mapping

• Water management

Sector Strengths - overview

The UK boasts three specific strengths

• The science base

• The food and farming supply chain

• Access to global markets

The Government’s UK Strategy for

Agricultural Technologies will ensure these

elements work together to enhance the

UK’s world-leading position

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UK Advantage (Continued)

Benefits for overseas companies and investors

The UK offers overseas investors in the Agri-Tech sector the opportunity to partner

with world-class researchers to:

• Respond to consumer pressures and

give credibility to products

• Gain status for the business and

credibility for its products

• Gain support from and access to

solutions from other sectors and

technologies

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• Improve existing and devise new

innovative products and services

• Provide solutions to technical problems

• De-risk research projects by accessing

government funding

• Meet regulatory requirements

• Develop staff


UK Advantage (Continued)

The UK offers overseas agri-tech

venture capital investors:

• Greater access to new technologies

• Greater access to investment

opportunities

• Easier environment to establish proof-

of-concept studies

• More Government support to de-risk

early stage investment

• Various Investment funds to take

projects forward from proof of concept

towards commercialisation

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UK Government Support - Funding and Programmes still in place

UK tax allowances for R&D expenditure

• A generous environment for

businesses investing in R&D

• Corporation tax rate (currently 23%,

falling to 20% by 2015) can be halved

for businesses investing in, and

commercialising, new intellectual

property under ‘R&D tax credit’ and

‘Patent Box’ allowances.

• Capital spent on R&D equipment

also allowable usually at the full rate

of 100%

Robust IP Protection

• UK is the second strongest nation on

IP protection globally

Patent Box

• Reduces corporation tax to 10% on

profits attributable to qualifying patents

• Specialist support from within ATO in

all aspects of investment (not just

technology)

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UK Government Support - Funding and Programmes

Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

Significant research funding adds to the R & D strengths of the UK sector, including:

• £60 million catalyst fund to support ‘proof of concept’ of near-market agricultural innovations

• £10 million earmarked for supporting the transfer of technology and new products to developing

countries

• £90 million (over 5 years) to establish a small number of Centres of agricultural innovation

• The recent £20m SCPRID initiative, funded by BBSRC, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

and the Indian Government, supports high quality research to improve sustainable production of

major food crops in developing countries

• Defra 25 year Food and Farming Plan

Regional Growth fund

Worth £2.4 billion (2011-2015) to create economic growth and sustainable employment in

eligible locations no current rounds but awaiting CSR !!

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UK innovation – Food and Farming Supply Chain

Rapid commercialisation of research

• Case study: Beneforté broccoli - from

laboratory to UK supermarket shelves

– A collaboration between the Institute of

Food Research, the John Innes Centre

and Plant Bioscience Ltd

– Developed by crossing standard

cultivated broccoli and its wild-growing

relative from Sicily

– Extensive field trials at 50 sites across

Europe, the USA and Mexico has found

the broccoli consistently produces up to

three times the amount of glucoraphanin

(a compound believed to improve

cardiovascular health and reduce the risk

of cancers)

– The Institute of Food Research and

partners on the Norwich Research Park

are continuing to study the health benefits

of glucoraphanin and Beneforté broccoli

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UK Innovation – Food and Farming Supply Chain (Continued)

Infomatics and Big Data

• UK Government funding now in place

for Centre for Agricultural Informatics

and Metrics of Sustainability

– The first of the Centres of Agricultural

Innovation

– UK expertise will make Centre a global

hub of excellence

– UK also hosts the European

Bioinformatics Institute - one of the

world’s repositories of new genetic data

– Will aid development of agricultural

products, new therapeutics and vaccines

– Big Data from laboratory to farm will drive

agri-tech innovation

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Case Studies:

• PepsiCo crop management tool

– PepsiCo is the parent company of

Walker’s crisps

– They worked with Cambridge University

and selected farmers to develop a

revolutionary web-based crop

management tool

– Rolled out to farmers in 2011, the tool

provides precision information about

crops; helps farmers reduce their water

use and carbon emissions, boost harvests

and increase efficiency

• MySoil App

– A free smart phone app from the Natural

Environment Research Council’s British

Geological Survey and Centre for Ecology

& Hydrology

– Allows people to view and upload

information about soils in their area

and explore vegetation habitat data

across Britain

– Since its launch in June 2012, it has

attracted more than 2.6 million web hits

and 12,500 users. More than 500 people

have contributed to the databank to build

even greater knowledge of soil properties

across the UK

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Agricultural Mechanisation

The UK boasts world-leading Agri-Engineering

Case Study

• Robocrop

– Robocrop was developed and brought

to market in the UK by the R&D

company, Tillett and Hague, and

Garford Farm Machinery

– It uses video image analysis techniques

to identify and locate individual plants to

remove weeds mechanically on crops

planted with regular spacing

– The technology relieves the driver of the

need to concentrate on very accurate

steering and removes the need to employ

gang work force to do the weeding

– As a result, it is leading to better quality

work maintained for longer periods and at

higher speeds

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UK Innovation – Access to Global Markets (Continued)

• Exosect

– Exosect was established in 2001

– A spin-out from the University of

Southampton to develop products for the

protection of food from pests and disease

– In 2005 it launched the first of its

innovative crop protection products

– Recently it led a UK consortium to

develop a novel biopesticide for the

protection of stored grain

– This fills the gap in the market for

sustainable grain protectants following

the phased withdrawal of methyl bromide

and increasing insect resistance to

remaining insecticides

– Exosect has now gained more than

60 patents and 30 national product

registrations

– It is actively outlicensing its grain

protectants and seed treatment platform

technologies to multi-national companies

throughout Europe, North America and

the Far East

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THE ATO

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The Agri-Tech Organisation is the centre of

excellence and first port of call for

overseas companies looking for trade and

investment opportunities in the UK and for

UK-based companies seeking to expand

their international business. Help is

provided to large scale businesses, SMEs

and institutions to entice foreign investment

and encourage sales of UK products

abroad. Key areas of focus are primarily:

• Plant sciences

• Animal health

• Aquaculture

• Precision agriculture

Other requirements for agricultural

technologies are supported upon request


What have we achieved

• Supported the Leadership Council

• Worked with all the new Centres of Excellence

• Identified a our key markets

• Trained our staff in those overseas markets

• Helped UK companies bring in £ 120 Million Trade in agri

tech

• Secured major Inward Investments and an active pipeline

from US, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Nre

Zealand and many other countries

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UK Agri Tech - Key Commercial Investors

The UK has globally leading agri-tech investors, such as:

DuPont Solae

World leader in developing soy-based ingredients

Dow AgroSciences

Provides agricultural chemicals and employs 100

people in the UK

Vivergo

Invested £350 million in a bioethanol plant and

currently supports more than 1,000 jobs

Zoetis

Animal health company (formerly Pfizer

Animal Health)

Merck Animal Health

Employs 400 people in the UK

Novartis Animal Health

Recently invested in a £15 million expansion and

upgrade of their Dundee liquid fill plant

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Syngenta

Global agri-business with £164 million

investment and 960 people employed in the UK

Bayer Crop Science

Leading innovative company operating in the

area of seeds, crop protection, and non-

agricultural pest control with 320 employees in

the UK

Dupont Pioneer

US-based producer of hybrid seeds for

agriculture - a leading developer and supplier of

advanced plant genetics and provider of

agronomic support and services


UK Agri tech - Key Commercial Investors (Continued)

IDEXX Laboratories

There are a number of collaborations between

IDEXX and UK universities.

Genus

World leader in applying biotechnology to

advance the science of animal breeding and

genetic improvement. HQ in Basingstoke.

Phillips

Horticultural division is researching the effects of

different LED lighting recipes on crops including;

herbs, leafy salads, strawberries and flowers.

Claas

A leading German agricultural engineering

company with a presence in the UK.

Syngenta

European operations centre transferred from

Basle to Manchester with creation of over 200

new jobs

Unilever

Two R&D centres in the UK (in Merseyside and

Northampton) with over 50 years of scientific

excellence.

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This is just the start

Working with our colleagues overseas, in the regions and in HQ:

We are ready to deliver our pipeline of over 40 new investment

projects into the UK and to support UK companies generating £120

million new trade next year and beyond …………………….

We have everything in place to deliver over 50 new projects that are in

our pipeline and support the commercial and international strategies

of the new Innovation Centres

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Please talk to us and thank you for listening!!

[email protected];

Tel mobile 07767 006 458

If we cannot help you we will try to find someone who can !

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