Innovation is an essential catalyst for rapid and pioneering change. The UK Food Valley is driving a step change in sustainable production and processing to deliver healthy, quality food to the nation, with innovation at its heart. 

The fusion of our world leading clusters, expertise, research, automation, and data driven evidence, creates the optimal conditions for sector innovation driving resilient UK whole food chains.   

Businesses in Greater Lincolnshire can access advanced, multi-disciplinary R&D and innovation across the entire food chain to improve business productivity, sustainability and resilience, and enable new product development. 

The University of Lincoln offers unique interdisciplinary expertise in agri-tech, advanced food chain engineering and digital tech competencies. With dedicated research centres applying Industry 4.0 themes and technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, robotics, agri-robotics, sensors, automation and digitalisation to key industry challenges the UK Food Valley has UK leadership in food chain digitalisation.  The university, in partnership with business, is focused on finding solutions to industry challenge through creating innovation projects with partners from across the entire food chain, to improve the sector’s productivity, sustainability, safety and resilience, whilst enabling new product development. 

By focusing on applied, industry led innovation, the University of Lincoln has partnered with businesses on over 200 food industry innovation projects in the last ten years, bringing together businesses, world leading technology companies and academics.  Using technology and commercialisation expertise across the universities of Lincoln and Cambridge, local research teams are now leading the commercialisation of applied agritech for the UK.