An opportunity for Scottish food companies, life science, food research organisations and technology developers who:

• Develop underpinning science for functional foods
• Are looking for partners to licence their innovative technologies to
• Need to source a technology developer to add value to their product development

Innovation Relay Centre (IRC) Scotland in partnership with the Rowett Research Institute will hold a Partner Brokerage Event as part of their 5th Joint Symposium with the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Clermont Ferrand, The Symposium Gut Microbiology- research to improve health, immune response and nutrition is the venue for the Brokerage Event on the 22nd June 2006.

The conference attracts over 200 international delegates all leading researchers in gut health and attracts the attention of key multinationals in the market of food and health.

The Partner Brokerage Event will be hosted at the conference venue in Aberdeen - the first time that a brokerage event has been held at this international conference.

Technology based companies and research organisations can benefit from one to one meetings with technology providers, developers and users.

Scottish food companies can benefit from either participating in the brokerage event to meet technology providers and / or to participate in the inward mission perhaps meeting with the missionaries on a one to one basis.

Partner Brokerage Event - What is it?

Speed Networking within a Partner Brokerage Event is an ideal way to promote your technology and expertise and to meet and screen potential partners in a short space of time. Participants will have the opportunity to select partners and to be selected for future co-operation as well as for common research and development projects according to their own individual requirements.

Who should participate?

The Partner Brokerage Event will be of particular interest to companies and research organisations who are looking to find technology partners to develop their underpinning science that has applications in functional food markets.

Spin outs with proprietary technology can use the brokerage event to identify new business opportunities with relevant R&D partners. Its also a great forum for academic organisations looking to find either commercialisation partners for emerging technologies or for organisations who need to identify R&D partners for Framework proposals.

Participants at the brokerage event will be looking to scope out and implement innovative technologies to underpin their competitiveness in functional food markets, and the event will bring together the technology supplier with the technology user.

Further Information:

For further information on any aspect of the Partner Brokerage Event, contact;

Helen Glass,

IRC Scotland

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