By Frank Eetgerink, presented during the 9th TCI Latin American Cluster Conference, Temuco, Chile, 14-17 June 2016

1. Food Valley:12 ingredients for
regional development and clusters
RELATOR:
Frank Eetgerink
Blue River Concepts

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Netherlands, an empty city
Chile 18 milj. - 756.000 km2 - 24/km2
NL 17 milj. - 41.000 km2 - 400/km2

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Netherlands, different idea about authority

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Ingredient 1.
Long tradition in trade,
knowledge sharing &
collaboration

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• Early collaboration through establishments of Water
Boards in 13th century
• True global value chains early 17th century, first
multinationals, first stocks and shares
(but also colonialism)
• Agricultural cooperatives start in Netherlands end of 19th
century
• Now: ZLTO, Rabobank, FrieslandCampina, FloraHolland,
The Greenery, For Farmers, AgriFirm
• From OVO-Triptych (research-guidance-education) to
Triple Helix to Quadruple Helix
A history of collaboration in
Dutch agrifood

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Opening Agricultural University of Applied
Science, 9th of march 1918, with prince
Hendrik
First students of the Agricultural University of
Applied Science in 1879 at the main building
• 1876 start National Agricultural
education in Netherlands
• 1877 First agricultural research
station in Wageningen
History of Wageningen UR

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Ingredient 2.
Critical mass of interconnected firms
and institutions

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High Productivity
Added value per hectare (5x higher
efficiency as EU average
Added value per Full Time Equivalent

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Ingredient 3.
Critical mass Logistic Hub

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Flow of goods in Europe
Source: Ministry of Economic Affairs, december 2013

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Ingredient 4.
Excellent (applied) Knowledge
In Agrofood

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Private investments in R&D (% of GNP)Nr of Agri-Food publications
Source: advisory report Topsector Agro&Food, 2011
Leading in Know-How & Innovation

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Center of Knowledge
Food & Feed production
• Royal Friesland Campina
• Mead Johnson Nutrition
• Arla
• H.J. Heinz
• Nutreco Holding
• Denkavit
• 2 Sisters Storteboom
• Vion
• Van Drie Group
• Struik Foods Europe
• Royal Fruitmasters Group
• Royal VIV Buisman
• Bieze Food Group
• CSK food enrichment
Of the world’s 40 largest food & beverage companies 12 have a major production site or
R&D facilities in the Netherlands.

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• 85% of the Dutch agri-food research capacity is located in
Food Valley
• 2.600 agri-food companies, 28 research organisations
• 10.000 researchers, >1700 Phd’s
• 164 nationalities
• Centered at Wageningen University and Research Centre.
Wageningen University: #1st Agricultural University of the
World according to the National Taiwan University Ranking
2013.

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Ingredient 5.
Wageningen Campus
& Facility sharing

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Campus ecosystem
Campus ecosystem
University
• Students / employees
• Education
• International
• Known worldwide
• Fundamental research
• High quality / high rankings
Research institutes
• Employees
• Translation research from
fundamental to applied
• International
• Pre-competitive &
confidential projects
Spin-offs / SME
• StartLife
• Support & coaching starters
• Incubator
• Interaction & learning
• (seed)capital
(Inter)national companies
• R&D departments
• Scientists
• Own and shared facilities
• Looking for interaction ánd
confidential surrounding

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Agrofood is going through a transformation

23. HIGH TECH TO FEED THE WORLD
cross cluster dynamics
23doelen. Nederland schept daarmee de kansen om een richtingbepalende rol in de duurzame
Figuur 1
Het vlechtwerk van toepassingssectoren en kennisdisciplines.

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• FrieslandCampina Research
• DMV
• Heinz Innovation Center
• Danone Research
• Kikkoman Europe R&D Laboratory
• Keygene
• Genetwister
• NSure
• Micreos
• Check-Points
• Isolife
• Biqualys
• CRV
• Bfactory Health Products
• Dyadic
Center of Knowledge, Research & Development

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Mass spectroscopyMicroscopy & imaging
Separation,
characterisation &
fractionation
Next generation
sequencing &
biomarker
identification
+ other Wageningen UR equipment & facilities
via our Search or contact us
CAT-AgroFood
research facility sharing
• Facilities accessible for researchers
from all organisations
• Use latest advances techniques –
expand your own lab!
• Get in contact with expertise
Wageningen UR
• Only pay for time you use the
facility

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Ingredient 6.
Cluster organisations

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Independent organisation
Sponsored by Province of Gelderland and company members
• International marketing / branding
• Support of small and medium sized enterprises
• Facilitate networking via Food Valley society of > 120 members
• Connect / collaborate with other Food Clusters
• Technology matchmaking
• Increase interaction between universities/ government and companies
• Yearly Food Valley Expo (2015: 900 people from + 20 countries)
Food Valley NL

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• Poultry (eggs and meat)
• Chain approach
• Commercialisation (international)
• Networking
• Sharing knowledge
• > 70 Members
• National scope
• Base: Barneveld
Dutch Poulty Centre

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Ingredient 7.
Regional schemes supporting
public private partnerships

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Go without Salt
• Developing new strategies for
salt reduction in food
• Essensor BV (Ede),
• Heinz BV (Nijmegen)
• Koninklijke Euroma BV (Wapenveld)
• NIZO food research BV (Ede)
• National Starch & Chemical GmbH (Hamburg)
• TNO (Zeist)
• Funding € 2.011.445

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Sport Nutrition: testing sport nutrition in a topsportrestaurant
on the national olympic training centre
InnosportLab Papendal

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Ingredient 8.
Incubation of spin offs

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• Extracurricular Education
• StartHub facilities
• Micro credits
• Internship in start-up company
• Mentoring program
• Trainings & workshops
• Peer network
• Boot Camps
• Stage Gate Incubation
• Pre-Seed fund
• Coaching
• Proof of Concept fund
• Workshops – Master classes
• Business network
• Acceleration programs
Techno Start-up’s Students and scientists
Food, Agro, Biobased with an entrepreneurial attitude
Target groups StartLife incubator

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• 42 start-up’s supported in pre-StartLife SKE period
(2000-2009)
• 110 start-up’s contracted and supported by StartLife
(2010-2015)
– 51 Start-up’s financed (3.6 M€ investement fund)
– 32 follow-up investments
– 16 student start-up’s supported
• Coaching and Networks
Metrics StartLife

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Funnel StartUps 2005 - 2015

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Ingredient 9.
Business Development
Support & Funding

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Ingredient 10.
International Focus

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Ingredient 11.
People & Quality of Life

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Cooperation between
local governments

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Nature

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Ingredient 12.
Branding & Story Telling

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All of the above is story telling
and branding, maybe the most
important ingredient of all to
make a great taste!

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