Biosolutions Corporate-Startup Innovation Day

How do you get ahead of your peers and build that corporate partnerships, which brings you onto the global market or the consumers’ plates?

That’s the question we will help you answer, if you join us – Food & Bio Cluster Denmark and DI Biosolutions – for our Open Innovation Day hosted by Arla Food Ingredients.

So what’s at stake? 

The Danish food and biosolutions cluster is one the most innovative in the world, representing world-class companies like Arla Foods, Novonesis, KMC, Alfa Laval, DLG, DLF and more.

At the same time, Denmark is doubling down on entrepreneurships and directing public research into private innovation with the purpose of reaching consumers worldwide. So the chances for success ought to be optimal right now, right? Truth is, however, that 6 out of 10 biomanufacturing startups fail due to lack of commercial traction regardless of the quality of their innovation.

In other words: It takes deep knowledge, experience and partners to go from lab to market, besides your innovative breakthrough. One of the ways to the market are strategic corporate partnership, where you work directly with established companies and utilizing their channels and insights to get ahead of the competition – bringing your innovation into their supply chain or product pipeline.

That’s why Food & Bio Cluster Denmark and DI Biosolutions are inviting for an Open Innovation Day, so you get one step closer to build your corporate-startup partnership and one step closer to deliver a product on market.

Program

13:30 Welcome and short introduction to Arla Foods Ingredients Innovation Centre

13:45 Tour of Arla Foods Ingredients

14:45 State of Play – what’s at stake for the Danish foodtech and biosolutions sector in uncertain global times? By  TBC Arla Foods Ingredients

15:00: Priorities of the new government – what to expect on foodtech and biosolutions? By Minister/MP

15:15  Priorities of the local municipality – how we create global innovation locally? By Mayor Lone Andersen (TBC)

15:30 Session on corporate-startup partnerships

• Nexus: Case and examples on corporate-startup partnerships. By Heidi Høy, Innovation Manager, Food & Bio Cluster Denmark
• Insights from startups and corporates – how do you build commercial traction and sell to corporate partners?
• Discussion at tables
• Feedback and next steps in plenary – by DI Biosolutions & Food & Bio Cluster

16:45 Sharing the top barriers for corporate-startups drinks/snacks – meet your DI Biosolutions and Food & Bio Cluster teams 

17:30 Thank you for today