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Masterclass Urban Rural Relationships
Supporting businesses to innovate
Edinburgh, 11 April 2018 @JWvdS
Business Innovation Accelerator
▪ Help to improve the success of start-up businesses
▪ Structured environment to support
● Peer to peer learning (cohort based)
● Mentoring
● Shared services (technical equipement, business
support, legal advice)
● Common space (informal exchange of experiences)
● Face to face contact to explain implicit and
complex knowledge
▪ Pitch or demo aimed at funding (venture capital but also public
and corporate funds)
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https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/sites/enrd/files/publi-enrd-rr-24-2017-en.pdf
https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/sites/enrd/files/tg_rural-businesses_case-study_agrient.pdf
https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/sites/enrd/files/tg_rural-businesses_case-study_academy-on-
tour.pdf
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Academy on Tour
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21 october 2016 Make your dreams come true! 2
3 18 november 2016 Horeca, supermarkets, webshops
416 december 2016 How to build a brand?
5 13 januari 2017Destination marketing
6 10 februari 2017New business models
9 september 2016 Introduction1 7 30 maart 2017
Final meeting
Meetings
20 maart 2017 Popup Markthal
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6b
4b
25 november 2016 Trip to Gent
Some weeks 2016/2017 Student research ‘’Fast Casual”
De-commodification of dairy
Each farmer is unique
Each meadow is unique
Each cow is unique
Each milk is unique
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Lessons learned
Dynamic demand led approach
Organise around challenges rather than sectors (new coalitions)
Committed initiators (passion for entrepreneurship and innovation)
Pilot and test for refining the programme
Multiple funding sources
Accelerators may not yield immediate result
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https://enrd.ec.europa.eu/sites/enrd/files/tg_rural-businesses_case-study_accelerator.pdf
Questions to be debated
To what extent is public funding (EU
RDP) able to facilitate this accelerator
approach?
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