Biotech Agrifood Innovation : a pre-acceleration program and contest to promote knowledge and technology transfer in agri-food and agri-environmental sectors

Abstract

The European agri-food sector needs to overcome several related to sustainability and food security [1]. For this, it is necessary for professionals working in this area to be able toinnovate, and to propose solutions that must be based on scientific knowledge, and on models of lifelong and postgraduate education, which allow the efficient transfer of knowledge between industry and higher education institutions [2]. This study aims to develop and implement a contest and pre-acceleration program for business projects in the agri-food and agrienvironment areas through academic entrepreneurship.