Food & Beyond
Food &
Beyond
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The best way to predict the future is to create it
No one can predict the future. The best bet is to shape it yourself. We enable cross-sector collaboration to inspire new ways of working and to provide opportunities for businesses to respond to consumer and societal needs.
This is what you get
Networking & Matchmaking
– meet your fellow game changers
- Networking via regular meetups
- Matchmaking across the whole food value chain
Sharing knowledge & co-creating
– learn from the best
- Sharing inspiration
- Acquiring knowledge through brainstorming
- Supportive start-up community
Concrete piloting
– turn ideas into reality
- Workshops
- Living labs for experimenting
Visibility & Funding – assets to take ideas forward
- Visibility into other food ecosystems
- Collaboration opportunities
- Help for public and joint funding
Our shared goals
- 1
Fast development
Capitalize on existing living labs (e.g. TestEat) and create new ways to quickly test business models.
- 2
Shared R&D model
Enable companies of all sizes to participate in R&D to tackle global challenges.
- 3
Boost sustainable food production
Boost the export potential of sustainable food production through cross-sectoral business development (food, equipment manufacturing, industrial biotechnology, ICT, IoT, health tech, logistics etc.).
- 4
Our brave long-term goal: making Finland a global leader in food innovation
We will make Finland a globally recognized, visionary leader in innovative food products and services along with cutting-edge processes and technologies.
Who should join us
Everyone plays a role in creating innovative solutions. Our collective is based on mutual collaboration, which develops synergies between all actors. To drive genuine change, we need partners of various sizes and from different fields of expertise. This is why we are actively negotiating with new, potential collaborators.
Our collective brings together and supports:
- Enterprises, small and medium businesses and start ups
- Universities, research and technology organisations and universities of applied sciences
- Private investors, public financiers and enablers
- Test beds and living labs with cities, municipalities and stakeholders
Perhaps you and your organisation should join the list?
