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Agro-food Innovation

Lleida

The Agro-food Innovation Hub is in Lleida. This hub is strategically located just two hours from a potential market of 20 million consumers, making it a key distribution point for the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Europe.

A significant percentage of Lleida's economy comes from the agro-food sector. Most of its exports, around 68%, are agro-food products, with the food industry accounting for 30% of its GDP.

Lleida is currently in the midst of a transformation and focalisation process that focuses on knowledge and value-added intensive services associated with the agro-food sector, such as the influence of food on health (functional food), the impact of agricultural and agro-industrial processes on the environment, and the use of biomass as a renewable source of products and materials. Also of particular note are materials engineering, audiovisual and industrial biotechnology.

Surface area:
  • 778,028 m2 of surface area for business and R&D activities
Sectors with investment opportunities:
  • Agro-food
  • Biotechnology
  • Sustainable building materials
  • The environment and alternative energy
  • Health
  • ICT
Business infrastructures:
Scientific infrastructures:
  • Universidad de Lleida (UdL)
  • ERIA Lleida (Lleida agro-food research cluster shared by the UdL and the IRTA)
  • INCAFUST- Catalan Wood Institute
  • INNOPAN- Bread Sector Technology Centre
  • IRB Lleida- Lleida Institute of Biomedical Research
  • ITL - Lleida Institute of Technology
  • MAQCENTRE - Innovation Centre for the Agricultural Machinery and Industrial
  • Equipment Sectors
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