Complementarity of knowledge centre Leuven and investment centre Tienen • LEUVEN: World class academic education and research • TIENEN: Industrial tradition and optimal cultural and leisure facilities • Good road communications and public transport
3 The food industry in Tienen
• Tienen: a trendsetting business location for the food industry • 1836: foundation of sugar refinery - Tiense Suikerraffinaderij • Food industry in Tienen employs about 1,000 people
4 The food industry in Tienen
5 The Feed Food Health project
• Feed Food Health domain: Research into the direct and indirect impact of food components, foods and feeding pattern on the health of humans and animals
• Feed Food Health Tienen: Translation of research results into economic opportunities and influencing research to generate and valorize innovative solutions
6 The Feed Food Health project
• Special focus on the value chain of sugar • Tienen has a lot of sugar related companies: • Tiense Suikerraffinaderij • SESVanderhave • Citrique Belge • Kim’s Chocolates • Pomagro
7 The Feed Food Health project
• New opportunities for sugar: • Not only as food of feed • But also new opportunities for fermentation based chemical industry • Optimization of residues • In bio-based industry
8 Tienen & Ambition
Ambition to develop Tienen as a region where traditional agriculture and horticulture, fruit cultivation and food production go hand in hand with the innovation and development of new products, processes and services
9 Tienen & Feed Food Health
FEED FOOD HEALTH
• Tienen as a technological and economic hub for all kind of industries related to healthy food and feed
• Reconversion of the traditional agriculture and conventional food industry, anticipating on the knowledge and creative economy of the future
10 SESVanderhave
11 Actor mapping
Private companies Food Port Institutional actors Tiense Suikerraffinaderij City of Tienen Nelissen Province Vlaams-Brabant Kim’s Chocolates POM Vlaams-Brabant Blankedale Kestens Invest
Science park Knowledge partners
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KU Leuven City of Tienen Flanders’ food KU Leuven LForCE POM Vlaams-Brabant Innovatiecentrum Vlaams-Brabant Innovative business park
City of Tienen KU Leuven POM Vlaams-Brabant
12 Campus Feed I Food I Health
• 10.7 ha (26.44 acres)
• Science park with Food Port (incubation centre) for research-based businesses
• High-quality, innovative business park
• Centre of innovation and knowledge for research, development and production
• Sustainable, CO2 neutral
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Campus
Science park: thematic business zone for businesses active in the broad domain of feed, food and health, conducting research and development, small scale productions
Business Park: businesses in the productionrelated food industry, possibly including logistics and service sector
Food Port: incubation center Creation of the ideal conditions for start-ups in the domain of feed, food and health and providing office, research and production space 14 Food Port incubation centre 15 Food Port
• Incubation centre = an infrastructure network providing start-ups
• Office, research and production space at attractive rates
• Auxiliary services to allow them to focus fully on their core business
Science park
• Turning research results into business projects and employment • Enterprise zone reserved for research-driven businesses • Tech or high-tech businesses • Active in the broad domain of Feed Food Health • Conduct research & development that generally leads to prototypes / small product series - no large-scale productions
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Innovative business park
• Reserved for businesses in the production- related food industry, possibly including the logistics and the service sector • Broadening of the permitted business activities (less research-oriented) • Partial relaxation of the criteria, enabling the establishment of non-food businesses where space allows • Protection of the dominance of food-related business by capping the proportion of non-food businesses at 30 %
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POM Vlaams-Brabant
• Regional Development Agency of the province of Flemish Brabant • Founded by the Province Flemish Brabant • Public partner of the local administration, public en private parties involved in regional development • Multi-disciplinary taskforce with field know how and technical expertise to enhance professional implementation of leverage projects for Flemish Brabant
19 More information:
POM Vlaams-Brabant Regional Development Agency Flemish Brabant
Renaat Kuipers [email protected] GSM +32 475 46 37 03 www.ffhtienen.be
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