Enhancing Food Industry Innovation: Successful Strategies from the Hungarian National Technology Platform
The Hungarian National Technology Platform "Food for Life" has successfully involved the industry and government to develop a national innovation strategy for the food sector. By leveraging existing connections and communication channels, the platform prioritized research funding for food industry innovation, facilitated consultations between industry and researchers, and conducted surveys to identify needs and challenges. With initiatives like the SMEs-NET project and low-cost networking events, the platform promotes collaboration while regularly communicating progress to ensure continuous engagement and funding opportunities.
Enhancing Food Industry Innovation: Successful Strategies from the Hungarian National Technology Platform
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Successful activities, experiences of the Hungarian National Technology Platform ”Food for Life” (1) • Using reputation, existing links, information channels of the national federation (ÉFOSZ – FHFI) to involve the industry and the government • Development of agreed national innovation strategy of the food industry • identifying priorities • focusing efforts • submitting to several government departments • Lobbying at the government • Recovery of acknowledgement of the food industry innovation as a priority area for research funding • Transfer of information from and to the ETP
Successful activities, experiences of the Hungarian National Technology Platform ”Food for Life” (2) • Starting consultation between the industry and the researchers how to improve mutual understanding and collaboration • Benefits of SMEs-NET project • Survey of industry needs • Identifying main problems, hurdles • Benchmarking • Running the NTP at low cost • short, cheap meetings – combined with other events • networking • no participation fee • Regular, repeated communication – every two months • Repeated efforts for receiving funding
