Innovate UK seeks as much as 15 bold UK small companies (with below 250 workers) who need to discover Agri-Tech alternatives within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

The World Enterprise Innovation Programme consists of a ‘Prepare’ preparation section, 7-day innovation go to targeted on Agri-food Tech, and an ‘Exploit the chance’ post-visit workshop.

Profitable candidates will profit from this intensive 9-12 month, three section programme with bespoke help from an Innovation and Progress Specialist all through, serving to what you are promoting maximise the alternatives recognized, together with growing innovation initiatives with companions within the area. This initiative will probably be delivered bodily. The programme will embody a go to to the Saudi Agriculture Convention in Riyadh, and a number of different related areas in KSA, to discover the challenges and alternatives out there.

What you’ll get

Innovate UK will fund and organise flights, lodging, in-market journey, and convention charges for profitable candidates.

Innovate UK can even pay for any cheap changes all through the initiative. Just one consultant from every firm will probably be funded and the identical particular person will probably be anticipated to take part in all components of the programme.

On acceptance to the programme a dedication price of £1000 will probably be obtained from every delegate, which will probably be refunded on completion of the total actions and agreed motion plan.

  • Construct market information and intelligence, increase your profile and stimulate new enterprise alternatives and concepts within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
  • Profit from introductions to senior figures and influential contacts
  • Enhance your organization worth proposition to worldwide companions
  • Seed new enterprise partnerships, develop RD&I collaborations and establish companions for bi-lateral funding calls
  • Enhance your proposition, hone your abilities and develop in confidence
  • Collect perception on what’s required to take an progressive answer into the market
  • Broaden your community and be taught from like-minded, bold companies

Eligibility

To use, you should be a UK based mostly innovation-led firm with ambitions to develop and internationalise, with fewer than 250 workers. The applying should be led by a CEO, Founder or senior determination maker who is ready to attend and full all actions.

They’d welcome purposes from companies growing progressive options to the priorities under, together with:

Crops:

  • Superior and precision breeding
  • Precision robotics for harvesting
  • Diagnostics and sensors for crop monitoring
  • Applied sciences to enhance water use effectivity
  • Built-in pest administration

Livestock and aquaculture:

  • Precision livestock expertise in dairy and poultry manufacturing
  • Administration of well being and illness in dairy and poultry manufacturing
  • Fertility and copy applied sciences in dairy manufacturing 
  • Superior and precision breeding, well being diagnostics and AI enhanced fish monitoring with software to fish well being and feed administration.

Round economic system:

  • Utilisation of agricultural and meals waste streams e.g. for conversion to larger worth product streams
  • Enhancing sustainability via round economic system approaches to agriculture / aquaculture / meals manufacturing

Dates:

World perception and briefing occasion: 3 July 2025 – Click on right here to register now

Purposes shut on Sunday 27 July 2025

Prepare workshop: Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 September 2025 (tbc)

Go to the KSA market: 17 – 24 October 2025

Exploit the chance workshop: Tuesday 13 January 2026 (tbc)

 

Full info and software type are on the Innovate UK Enterprise Join web site; apply by 27 July 2025.

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