National agri-food clusters : Synergies between competitiveness clusters in the agribusiness sectors
AgriMip Sud-Ouest Innovation’s projects have aspects which interface with other French agribusiness competitiveness clusters. Synergy involving complementarity and the association of partners enables different players to share and develop their skills.
Synergy in Greater Southwest France
Prod’Innov (Aquitaine), and Q@alimed (Languedoc-Roussillon) have similarities with AgriMip Sud-Ouest Innovation on several levels: geography, entities of large agribusiness companies whose operations overlap administrative boundaries, and the advantages these companies see in elaborating projects in common through two competitiveness clusters. The collaboration between AgriMip Sud-Ouest Innovation and Q@alimed is the logical outgrowth of this dynamic, reinforced by a comprehensive quality concept common to both clusters.
Bringing together economic and academic partners from both regions
Prod’Innov of Aquitaine, oriented towards health and healthy food, is developing skills of interest to AgriMip Sud-Ouest Innovation: food safety, nutrition, food preserving techniques, and plant biology R&D. Consequently, the governing bodies of the two clusters are exploring cooperation projects which will bring together economic and academic partners from both regions.Exploring complementarity
Innoviandes, an inter-regional competitiveness cluster, focuses on the issues of slaughtering, meat packing, processing, distribution and consumption. The AgriMip Sud-Ouest Innovation project, concerning all aspects, through the agrichains, makes it possible not only to consider the processing aspect, dealt with by Innoviandes, but also to consider the upstream production aspects. This complementarity makes it possible to examine projects from the meat sector on a case-by-case basis, so that all of the players can make the most of the competencies of both clusters.
