Industry Growth Centres

Industry Growth Centres

Industry Growth Centres

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS GROWTH CENTRE

The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre’s vision is: By 2025 the industry is working together to grow the share of Australian food in the global marketplace.

Overview

The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre, known as Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL), is part of the $250 million Industry Growth Centres Initiative.

A Growth Centre is an independent not-for-profit company that works with its sector to drive cultural change and build capability for success. Each Growth Centre has an industry-led Board, recognising that industry is best placed to overcome challenges to innovation, productivity and growth.

Growth Centres are enabling innovation in new and existing businesses, increasing levels of collaboration, smoothing the path to access international markets and global supply chains. They are enhancing management and workforce skills and optimising the regulatory environment. This will foster growth in Australia’s smart, high value and export focused industries. The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre has developed a sector strategy, including its Industry Knowledge Priorities, and Regulatory Reform Agenda, with activities underway to put these into action.

The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre is led by Mr Peter Schutz and a small board of respected industry leaders.

Driving innovation, productivity and global competiveness The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre will drive the following outcomes:

CONFIDENCE, CAPACITY AND CAPABLITY FOR SUCCESS: innovative and competitive businesses that continue to develop their capabilities and improve workforce skills.

A CULTURE OF CONNECTED, COLLABORATIVE PLAYERS: a transformed industry that continues to proactively seek, and use national and international connections to drive success.

EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLICY SUPPORT: an industry with a clear vision and strategy that articulates its current and emerging needs to garner support from relevant industry stakeholders and all levels of government.

The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre in action Priority actions include:

• Implementing its 10-year strategic plan including the Regulatory Reform Agenda.

• Providing new funding for sector-led collaborative projects that focus on delivering commercial outcomes and achieving sector wide impact.

• Working closely with relevant Cooperative Research Centres and other research agencies.

• Leading workshops to facilitate business-to-business collaboration and help improve firm capabilities, including e-commerce, market diversification and exporting.

• Creating a Healthy Foods Online portal to bring together food suppliers and technical experts to formulate and market healthier food products.

• Providing short-term matched funding to help companies resolve technical challenges and take advantage of specific market opportunities through its Enterprise Solution Centre.

• Partnering with the Australian Food and Grocery Council to undertake a Food Safety Auditing Project.

• Coordinating a unified Australian presence at international trade shows.

National reach and focus The Growth Centre links clusters around Australia, leveraging existing relationships and infrastructure to strengthen the sector’s national and international networks. The Food and Agribusiness Growth Centre headquarters is located with CSIRO at its Food Innovation Centre in Werribee, Victoria. The Growth Centre also creates a national network through other CSIRO sites across Australia.

Contact To find out how businesses and researchers are already engaging with FIAL please email: info@fial.com.au. To learn more about how FIAL is building capability in its sector visit www.fial.com.au.

For more information on the Industry Growth Centres Initiative go to www.industry.gov.au/IndustryGrowthCentres.

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