About InCrops

Our Objectives

The InCrops enterprise hub has been developed to:
  • stimulate through new business assistance and activity the commercialisation of new biorenewable and low carbon products from alternative and non food crop feedstocks
  • in order to stimulate new business activity lever out the East of England's world class research capability in plant and crop science
  • to support the business and commercial sector and stimulate sustainable economic growth through supply chain development, market integration and product innovation
  • accelerate the rate of successful technology transfer into the business and commercial environment
  • through new exploitation platforms widen the scope for technology transfer
  • proactively support commercialisation through business spin outs and business incubation support in the East of England

Low carbon objectives

The project has a strong commitment to low carbon economic growth this is exemplified through the enterprise hubs low carbon objectives which promote:

  • the uptake of crop derived bio-renewable materials from alternative and non food crops into low carbon supply chains and promote the efficient use of natural and renewable products that can substitute fossil resources and thereby reduce GHG emissions
  • the development and use of bio-based products that have a low or zero carbon life cycle in their creation, manufacture, distribution and disposal
  • the development of green and low carbon supply chains for the use and exploitation of crop derived renewable raw materials
  • the use of plant science research to support carbon reduction and using technology transfer to stimulate the switch from fossil fuel derived products to bio-renewable low carbon products from raw material feedstock’s including co-products from waste
  • the better understanding and use of life cycle analysis (LCA) for low carbon auditing in major supply chains on a developmental and advisory basis and to ensure and validate the success of low carbon strategies
  • localisation and integration of supply for raw materials into consumption based supply chains to cut GHG emissions by 50% from transport and distribution
  • the development of new and innovative low carbon businesses using new and clean technology that can market bio-renewable and crop based products and bi-products into supply chains from the East of England