Irish Bioeconomy Foundation

Ireland: Southern (Ireland)
Stephen Napier
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About us

The Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (Growing Ireland's Bioeconomy Together) is Ireland’s national bioeconomy association and innovation cluster. IBF was founded in mid-2017 to establish a fora of industry, academia and policy leaders around Ireland’s emerging bioeconomy. Our mission is to promote the conversion of Ireland’s natural land & sea resources to high value products for the development of a sustainable bioeconomy that is globally competitive and creates local development.

Formalised strategy
Strategy focus on internationalisation

Cluster composition

  • 24
    Cluster Members
  • 8
    SME's
  • 5
    Large Companies
  • 8
    Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
  • 2
    Other Ecosystem Actors

Achievements

Management team

Stephen Napier
Cluster Manager
Filippo Giancarlo Martinelli
Other

Sectorial and industrial focus

Sectoral Industries
Technology fields
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries

Services

Support services provided

Other (please specify)

Further information

IBF will help its members by:

  • Facilitating relations among innovative agribusiness, forestry, marine, energy and bioeconomy champions.
  • Generating synergies between different sustainable initiatives.
  • Enabling innovative projects to reach their next level.
  • Creating an integrated ecosystem of converging assets and ambitions.

The Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF) is now building, in the heart of Ireland, a new centre-of-gravity, for agribusiness, marine, renewable energy, and bioeconomy players, featuring:

  • INNOVATION CLUSTER: the National Bioeconomy Campus (NBC), where our members and partners can aggregate to build new initiatives, converge interests and receive training;
  • DEMONSTRATION PLANT: the Irish Bioprocess Demonstrator (IBD), where our clients can pilot and demonstrate their innovative biotech and green chemistry solutions with the latest technologies and know-how;
  • EUROPEAN LAUNCH-PAD: connecting the Irish Bioeconomy Public-Private Network (IBPPN) to European funding, non-Irish businesses and international talents.

In 2020 IBF provided a broad range of new services :

  • Design and Scale-up (Engineering consulting for scaling-up innovative process via design and evaluation services, supported access to pilots plants in Europe (2020) and in Ireland (2021).
  • Access to Financing (support in pre-competitive innovation public founding soucing, opportunity spotting, positioning and bids set up, support in confidential private fundraising leveraging IBF network of Irish and extra-EU investors (EIIS, VISA scheme) and bank fundraising by leveraging IBF network of relationships with main Irish banks).
  • Promotion and Outreach (support in positioning and promoting your products, processes and brand within the Irish and EU bioeconomy area).

Support programmes

EU Programmes

European Programmes
H2020

Name & description

Regional Enterprise Development Fund scheme application (National): grant for the development of the National Bioeconomy Campus.

Project name

ICT-BIOCHAIN 

Link | Link (Regional/National)

Cooperation activities

International cooperation

Targeted countries

China
United States

Transnational cooperation

Targeted countries

Belgium
Italy
Spain

Transnational support activites

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International support activites

- none -

Upcoming events

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