Tech Box Park

Shaping the future of digital farming

Hartpury’s vision is to radically develop its 360-hectare campus to create a pioneering Digital Innovation Farm, in response to an increasingly digital world with global demand for new technology in farming – ensuring students are not just ‘industry ready’ for today but prepared for tomorrow and beyond.

To be launched later this year, funding from GFirst LEP’s Getting Building Fund, the European Regional Development Fund and the Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust, firmly establishes the next phase of our Digital Innovation Farm 'accelerator' initiative, which includes our recently launched Agri-Tech Centre.

Driving productivity and competitiveness in the agricultural and land-based industries.

Our new Tech Box Park offers dedicated, practical working space and support packages, access to Hartpury Farm and an extended farming network for practical trials and feasibility testing across the county where businesses can explore, test, research and develop new products, or enhance existing ones.

INNOVATIVE WORKSPACE

Each of our five Tech Box units provide an innovative, self-contained working space for desk-based product development and testing.

Our flexible high-tech work and meeting space offers SME’s a unique environment to launch and demonstrate products to clients both physically and virtually.

Designed and manufactured by ISO Spaces, an award-winning designer and manufacturer of container conversions and modular buildings, the 10 x 40ft High-Cube Tech Box units will be created using environmentally friendly, repurposed shipping containers clad in cedar wood.

Limited spaces available.

Tech Box Park benefits

Based within a well-connected agricultural heartland, Tech Box Park benefits include:

Advice and guidance from a network of people who understand the business and technologies of the agri-tech and food-tech sectors.
Use of Hartpury Farm and an extended farming network for practical farm trials and feasibility testing.
Hartpury’s enviable support and world-class knowledge network that includes farmers, entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and academics.
Access to farming data, research, equipment and resources to test, refine and grow propositions.
Space for collaboration, idea generation, expertise, advice, and physical facilities, providing a forum for all stakeholders in agricultural technology.

Business Support Packages

SME’s will be supported to develop ‘new to firm’ products and ‘new to market’ products, leading to growth in each business via our range of business support packages.

Innovation for Environmental Sustainability

Helping your business to understand sustainability good practice, meet environmental standards and reach accreditation.

Product Development and Testing Facilities

Supporting your business to analyse, test and demonstrate new and existing products to clients physically and virtually.

Field Validation and Market Testing

Providing your business with access to agricultural trial and test beds to improve productivity and efficiency.

Showcase Marketing and Promotion

Offering your business a platform to promote products to Hartpury’s academics, students, peers, and potential customers.

Take a virtual tour of our Agri-Tech Centre

Get in touch

Expressions of interest now being taken.

If you would like to find out more about the opportunities available for your business, we’d love to hear from you:

email: enquiries@DIA-T.Hartpury.ac.uk

tel: 01452 702546

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DIGITAL INNOVATION FARM PROSPECTUS

Our funders

Funding for Hartpury’s Digital Innovation Farm Tech Box Park has been provided by the GFirst LEP ‘Getting Building Fund’, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Elizabeth Creak Charitable Trust.

Digital Innovation Farm Tech Box Park