Yili expands its global health ecosystems in Europe with StartLife and Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing
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WAGENINGEN, Netherlands, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/
On June 2021, Yili, Asia's largest and fast-growing dairy company, is
officially partnering with the agri-foodtech accelerator StartLife in the
Netherlands. Yili is also joining the Open Innovation Forum, an industry
network for food and FMCG companies at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM),
which is part of the University of Cambridge. Through building this wider
innovation ecosystem, Yili will enhance collaborations across Europe to work on
the challenges faced in the food and agricultural sectors to deliver healthy
solutions to consumers.
The collaboration with StartLife enables Yili to tap into the innovation
ecosystem of agri-foodtech start-up and scale-up companies. Together with
entrepreneurs, Yili will also brainstorm and facilitate exchange of new ideas
across the industry. Yili Innovation Center Europe and Startlife are both based
on the campus of Wageningen University & Research at the heart of Food Valley
in The Netherlands, which makes the collaboration even more appealing.
Through becoming a member of the IfM's Open Innovation Forum, Yili has a unique
opportunity to collaborate with industry experts and world-leading academics,
gaining access to the latest industry insights, tools and techniques. IfM's
Open Innovation Forum also provides a platform for collaboration opportunities
among companies at full range of activities in the food, beverage and FMCG
value chains. The Forum helps members to combine their internal thinking with
external insights, ideas and paths to market, and strengthens Yili's membership
in the Corporate Venturing Leadership Forum originating from the Cambridge
ecosystem as well.
Through these exciting collaborations, Yili gains access to a very large
ecosystem of innovative agricultural and healthy food start-ups to help
overcome future challenges faced by the industry, including challenges emerging
in the next decade and beyond. This will result in new win-win collaborations,
such as proof of concept projects to deliver holistic solutions. Yili will be a
catalyst in enabling start-ups to get access to the fast-growing healthy food
market in China and the rest of Asia.
Yili ranks among the Global Dairy Top 5 and has sustained an undisputable
position of No. 1 in Asia for seven successive years. Yili has the ambition to
become the most-trusted healthy food provider across the world. Yili Innovation
Center Europe (YICE), based in Wageningen, The Netherlands, is the innovation
bridge to Yili in China.
StartLife is Europe's longest running and leading agrifoodtech accelerator. Its
mission is to support founders in accelerating their agrifoodtech startups that
help, shape, a sustainable food system. Since 2010, StartLife has
built, supported and funded over 300 agrifoodtech startups propelling
breakthrough technologies in the domains of food &agriculture.
IfM Engage partners with organisations across industry, government and academia
to support them in solving complex challenges, using approaches and knowledge
developed at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), a division of the
University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering. IfM are grounded in
exceptional research, combined with a breadth of industrial expertise.
Source: Yili Group
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