Agrifood Innovation Incubator

Agrifood company incubator

ADVANTAGES:

  • Incubator Offices
  • Electrical panel with individual meter and several electrical outlets
  • Lighting
  • Air conditioning: heating and cooling
  • Voice and data connections both wired and wireless (Wi-Fi)

Infrastructure

Located in the Agrifood City of Tudela, the Agrifood Innovation Incubator is a space for developing innovative projects (*) in the agrifood sector during its first years of life.

The Agrifood City, an initiative of the Navarre Government to promote the agrifood sector, is a pioneering business park located in a strategic area of Navarre, where infrastructures and technologies are shared in a sustainable way. With the aim of achieving an energy efficiency of over 70% and significant cost savings for companies, the infrastructure, including the trigeneration system (steam, cooling and electricity) and the distribution of energy services through an pipe rack is made available to the incubator.

As part of the CEIN Innovation Incubators, it is managed by the Navarre European Enterprise and Innovation Centre (CEIN), which has been working at the service of the Navarre Government for over 20 years, allocating its resources to the promotion of SMEs and entrepreneurs in Navarre.

CEIN Innovation Incubators are not only a space with affordable and fully equipped premises. In addition, each company has a business mentor who guides it in order to ensure the project grows.

THE FACILITIES OF THE INNOVATION INCUBATORS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING FACILITIES:

  • 4 industrial buildings ranging from 150 m2 to 350 m2 (including offices and toilets) for agrifood companies with an industrial profile.
  • 6 offices ranging from 16 m2 to 21 m2 for innovative service companies specialising in this sector.
  • Pilot plant, including:
    • Equipped kitchen and material.
    • Laboratory with benches, cupboards and generic instruments.
  • Meeting rooms.
  • Classroom.
  • Common dining room.
  • CEIN Offices

Access control, fire system, video surveillance system, and individual electrical and air conditioning (hot and cold) are included.

All the buildings and offices are ready for the start-up of an activity, except for such specific requirements regarding the nature of each business project.

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TECHNICAL FACILITIES:

Industrial Buildings:

  • Electrical panel and lights.
  • Connection to the Central Services pipe rack (CO2, water steam, glycol-water and cold water).
  • Building sanitation with stainless steel gutter and waste water collection tank and 10,000-litre decanter
  • Concrete walls.
  • Epoxy resin coated floor.
  • Insulated ceiling with sandwich panel. Any required fume outlets to be installed by the company.
  • Air conditioning.
  • Dressing rooms and toilets

(Office area inside the buildings)

  • Air conditioning: heating and cooling.
  • Lighting.
  • Electrical outlets.
  • Voice and data connections, both wired and wireless (Wi-Fi).

Incubator offices:

  • Electrical panel with individual meter and several outlets.
  • Lighting.
  • Air conditioning: heating and cooling.
  • Voice and data connections, both wired and wireless (Wi-Fi).

The pilot plant:

It is divided into two different areas:

  1. An 80-m2 laboratory equipped with benches, cupboards and generic instruments: pH-meter, precision scales, sieves, test tubes, gas meter, and so on.
  2. A 60-m2 kitchen equipped with cooking ranges, ovens, refrigerator, heat-sealing machine and cooking material so companies can develop tests and pre-test series of their products.

Services:

A company located in any of the CEIN Innovation Incubators can benefit from the following
services free of charge:

  • A business mentor to monitor the project.
  • Specific advice on innovation, ICTs and corporate image.
  • Access to financial incentives for outsourcing.
  • Networking services through business meetings and events.
  • Information on existing funding and grants.
  • Contacts with venture capitalists and potential investors.
  • Training in different areas of the company.
  • Communication activities for the dissemination of news generated by each company.
  • Administrative services.
  • Access to meeting rooms and pilot plant (with kitchen and laboratory)

Other resources:

  • Document destruction service.
  • Teleworking access.
  • Broadband Internet access and Wi-Fi connection.
  • Library.
  • Showers and toilets.
  • Vehicle loading and unloading access.
  • Coffee shop-restaurant.

Why set up business in the Agrifood Innovation Incubator?

  • To improve business survival expectations and minimise risks.
  • To network with other leading companies in the same sector, facilitating joint partnerships.
  • Because it fosters synergies with companies in the same sector.
  • Because it means less investment, since it makes space available to local food companies below market prices so they can immediately start-up their activity.
  • To further enhance your business’s creativity and innovation.
  • To get priority access to the services offered by CEIN to the Navarre business fabric.
  • To strengthen the company brand by linking it to the concept of innovation.

Application for admission

Located in the Agrifood City of Tudela, the Agrifood Innovation Incubator is a space for developing innovative projects (*) in the agrifood sector during its first years of life.

The Agrifood City, an initiative of the Navarre Government to promote the agrifood sector, is a pioneering business park located in a strategic area of Navarre, where infrastructures and technologies are shared in a sustainable way. With the aim of achieving an energy efficiency of over 70% and significant cost savings for companies, the infrastructure, including the trigeneration system (steam, cooling and electricity) and the distribution of energy services through an pipe rack is made available to the incubator.

As part of the CEIN Innovation Incubators, it is managed by the Navarre European Enterprise and Innovation Centre (CEIN), which has been working at the service of the Navarre Government for over 20 years, allocating its resources to the promotion of SMEs and entrepreneurs in Navarre.

CEIN Innovation Incubators are not only a space with affordable and fully equipped premises. In addition, each company has a business mentor who guides it in order to ensure the project grows.

As part of the CEIN Innovation Incubators, it is managed by the Navarre European Enterprise and Innovation Centre (CEIN), which has been working at the service of the Navarre Government for over 20 years, allocating its resources to the promotion of SMEs and entrepreneurs in Navarre.

CEIN Innovation Incubators are not only a space with affordable and fully equipped premises. In addition, each company has a business mentor who guides it in order to ensure the project grows.