How to profit from the Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft?

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1 How to profit from the Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft? How to profit from the Food Industry Competence Network? Weinfelden 2017 Frank Burose

2 Personal Data Frank Burose, Dr. sc. agr on farm practical training student of agriculture, university of Goettingen (D), with a major in agricultural economics Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART (Research Department Agricultural Economics and Engineering: PhD and scientific assistant) since May 2011 business manager of the Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft (KNW-E)

3 Beginnings Programme «Chance Thurgau Plus» (2002) Proposals to improve the governmental regulations for the economy in canton of Thurgau: Trade Organisation Thurgau (TGV) Chamber of Industry and Commerce Thurgau (IHK) Farmers Organisation Thurgau (VTL) Aim: Establishing a competence centre for the companies of the food industry to offer services and to transfer information

4 Organisation Interkantonales Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft Cantons (official) Thurgau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, St.Gallen, Schaffhausen, Zurich Supervision Committee Financing New Regional Policy (NRP) Office Weinfelden (TGV)

5 Expansion of the Network Thurgau Schaffhausen, Zurich, St.Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden Thurgau (2011) + 4 Cantons (2014)

6 The Food Chain does not stop at a border Activities across borders Supporter in 13 CH-Cantons as well as in D und A

7 Cooperations international

8 Connections worldwide Networking, connecting Business-partners, transfer of knowledge & technology, support innovations: «Does not stop at any borders» Connections «worldwide» (e.g. Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, India, Russia, Italia, Germany, Austria, France, Croatia, UAE, Chile, Brazil) Asking for: Settlement in Switzerland / Europe, Research & Development partners, know-how transfer, business partners We offer: database, informations, platforms, excursions,

9 Business and Aims I To motivate enterprisers of the food industry in innovations and in seminal products and markets To give advice to companies to facilitate innovation and new products as well as to connect companies and persons who provide specific services To win universities, universities of applied science, public and private research institutes for partnership to transfer knowledge and technology from analysis to practice

10 Business and Aims II To drive challenges from the field into research To build up a knowledge base in the food industry sector To organise different kind of events To win partners, sponsors and supporters To care for our homepage and other information platforms To distribute project results To propose ways and means to improve companies, their products as well as their surround and the quality of work and the quality of life

11 Players along the whole value chain of the Agro Food Sector

12 to offer investment options to transmit jobs to serach for appropriation Networking support, consulting to support Start-Ups to organize excursions, events «bringing the right to place a speaker partners together» to forward surveys transfering know how to support distribution to bring expertise to contact government agencies raw materials / processes products event manager export / import «property broker» to support innovations promotion project partner, cooperations

13 Networking concret Who can deliver a special meat, nuts, syrup,.. (raw material) to create a new product? Occasion-machinery to pack tea Who wants to sell a food company? (subsequent owner) Transmitting jobs: innovation manager, technique manager, Co-CEO, Who wants to invest in a food company / special project,? Who can offer a special technique to process a rawmaterial / food? bringing together «the right» partners, create win-win-situations

14 Your profit from the Network Uncomplicated exchange of ideas to wide your network - variegated events Networking (Business Event, Wirtschafts-Talk) Forum (Lebensmittel von morgen) Professional exchange Discussion AWorkshop a Excursion

15 Unique features of KNW-E We know the player in the Ag-Food value chain Thurgauer Markenplakat der Ernährungswirtschaft We are near by the entrepreneurs / researchers We offer a low-threshold acces to the player of the Ag-Food- Industry We are neutral & independent

16 What use does the KNW-E creates? Business-Partners: Economy + Research Competitiveness + creation of value + jobs Role(s) of the KNW-E: Networker, «Cutting point» Plattforms (Exchange, Networking, joint activities ) Eventmanagement Knowledge- and technology-transfer Support of Innovationen

17 Unternehmen, die bereits vom KNW-E profitieren Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft (KNW-E)

18 Social media / contact Keep in contact / see you on: Kompetenznetzwerk Ernährungswirtschaft Thomas-Bornhauser-Strasse 14 CH-8570 Weinfelden burose@ernaehrungswirtschaft.ch Tel. +41 (0)