The Partnership
ReValue brings together a world-class partnership made up of innovation and business specialists Innovation Strategy, industry leaders ArcitekBio and state of the art facility AberInnovation.
Lead Partner: Innovation Strategy
Innovation Strategy are award-winning innovation specialists that help Wales’ most innovative businesses and organisations with research and development of innovative and disruptive solutions to achieve fairer, greener and inclusive growth.
They support businesses, universities, and public sector across Wales to enhance collaborative innovation and the development of more entrepreneurial entities. Innovation Strategy assist localities and regions in creating innovation ecosystems and implement new strategies to promote economic growth. They deliver unique expertise and resources to accelerate the development of innovative businesses and organisations across key sectors. Innovation Strategy have successfully supported over 790 Welsh businesses and raised over £18 million over recent years to solve modern challenges in society and deliver ambitious innovations.
Industry Leaders: ArcitekBio
A spinout of Aberystwyth University founded on 3 principles, sustainable growth, innovation with impact, and value creation, who have raised over £1M in investment across 5 years to develop their pioneering approach to bio manufacturing xylitol from agricultural waste streams
ArcitekBio are proven experts in bioprocessing, synthetic biology, process scale-up and techno-economic assessments. Their primary vision is to utilise biotechnology towards building a sustainable, circular economy. Their team have experience leading and participating in business support programmes including ReValue and the mid-Wales Challenge Led Launchpad. They are supported by the facilities at AberInnovation and are able to support participating businesses with R&D, techno-economics, PoC development, analytical testing, pilot processing trials and more.
AberInnovation provides world leading facilities and expertise for the agri-tech industry, food and drink, and bio-science sector.
This £40.5m campus provides a progressive environment to encourage business and academic collaboration to flourish. AberInnovation offers a range of high quality facilities to support innovation, enabling commercial enterprises to grow, prosper and drive economic growth in the food and drink, bio-processing and biotechnology sectors throughout Wales and beyond. Aberystwyth University has been at the forefront of meeting the societal and environmental challenges of food and water security, climate change mitigation and renewable energy for decades. AberInnovation allows this vital work to continue at the cutting edge of new technology and with some of the world’s most innovative companies. AberInnovation provides state of the art facilities for a community of ambitious, collaborative companies of all sizes to develop new products and processes in the sustainable and circular economy.