Agri-EPI Centre offers ground-breaking incubation facilities and business support to accelerate the growth of your agri-tech business.
If you’re a UK agritech SME, agtech start-up or agri-food entrepreneur looking to ensure commercial success, Agri-EPI Centre provides the opportunity to invent, prototype and bring your agri-tech products and services to market.
Rent offices and practical technology business incubator workshop spaces, access precision technology and agricultural equipment as well as real-time commercial farm testbeds.
Agri-EPI Centre is a sector agnostic ecosystem of tech innovators, engineering excellence, business thinkers, and food and farming experts, driving growth in the UK and abroad, and supporting farmers and business owners to become more profitable and sustainable.
The Midlands Agri-Tech Innovation Hub is an ecosystem of tech innovators, engineering excellence, business thinkers, and food and farming experts.
Our current list of tenants include:
– Nofence
– UPP
Situated at the Midlands Hub, the Innovation Barn is a dedicated incubation space for pre-trading and start-up Agri-tech / Agri-food businesses.
The Innovation Barn is a dedicated incubation space for pre-trading and start-up Agri-Tech / Agri-food businesses. Located at the Midlands Hub, it allows entrepreneurs to be a part of the wider Agri-EPI thriving innovation ecosystem of members and tenants.
The Innovation Barn provides a structured environment for inspiration and collaboration, where users can access:
– Hot-desks and break out areas
– Ad-hoc meeting pods
– Internet access
– Meeting rooms for formal discussions and ideation sessions
– Networking opportunities
Agri-EPI in Partnership with Harper Adams University are running a start-up support project titled Sustaining Shropshire. This project is dedicated to providing free expert support to Shropshire’s agri-tech and agri-food and drink sectors to develop pioneering new ideas and boost sustainability.
Alongside the start-up support, Agri-EPI is offering agri-tech and agri-food businesses one to one support to grow their business, relevant to entrepreneurs looking to take their already established company, product or service to the next level.
Housing laboratories, technicians, meeting and presentation space, our Northern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub supports collaboration, research and commercial trials to growers, agronomists, retailers, scientists and researchers from across the UK and further afield.
Our current list of tenants include:
Agri-EPI’s state-of-the-art South West Development Centre presents a fresh vision for the UK dairy industry. The resource offers a truly innovative environment for developing, testing and demonstrating new technologies and techniques to support sustainable, efficient, high health and welfare, cost-efficient milk production.
Cranfield University houses Agri-EPI’s Crop Technology Hub. Rent offices and practical technology business incubator workshop spaces, access precision technology and agricultural equipment as well as real-time commercial farm testbeds.
Located at Loch Fyne on Scotland’s Argyll coast, our Marine Aquaculture Innovation Centre (MAIC) is in partnership with an independent aquaculture company, Otter Ferry Seafish (OFS), jointly funded by Innovate UK.
The centre offers fully serviced research and development facilities to aquaculture producers and technology providers with a focus on improving aquaculture sustainability.
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