Innovations and Technology in Agriculture, Aquaculture, and the Environment

About

F³ Tech (Farm-Fish-Food) is a proof-of-concept and commercialization initiative that is creating a renaissance of economic growth and prosperity through innovation and technology that is built upon Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. F³ Tech enables solutions through the development of new products and services in response to market-driven problems and challenges. This is accomplished through a series of stages that guides entrepreneurs from idea through commercialization. LEARN MORE…

F³ Tech Consists of the Following Three Industry Segments

Envirotech

offers opportunities to address the impact of agriculture and aquaculture activity on the environment. This includes applying environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring, electronic devices, and other products and technologies to monitor, model, and conserve the natural environment and resources.

Challenge Events Advance Innovation and Solutions

F³ Tech Challenge Events are one-day innovation competitions in which students, entrepreneurs, and innovators form teams and tackle real-world, market-based problems and challenges in Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. The teams present their innovations and solutions to a panel of industry judges and are eligible for $1,000 cash awards. Click below to learn more details, to see a schedule of Challenge Events throughout Maryland, and to register for an upcoming event.

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Program

F³ Tech started in 2017 as a Maryland initiative that utilized the rural-urban collaborative environment throughout the State. F³ Tech focuses on Maryland’s traditional industries of agriculture and seafood. Maryland’s rural knowledge and know-how combines with the urban critical mass of talent and ideas. The overall F³ Tech program consists of three stages that provide entrepreneurs, innovators, startups, and existing businesses with the resources to achieve proof-of-concept and commercialization of new product and service ideas and innovations.

Bayer CropScience COO: acquisition is exception to rule in startup interactions

We caught up with Brett Begemann in London recently to talk glyphosate, Bayer's venture activities, digital ag, gene editing and smallholder farmers.

@f3techMD #bayer #acquisition

Source: Bayer CropScience COO: acquisition is exception to rule in startup interactions

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Fish 2.0 – Top Innovatos for 2018-2019

The Fish 2.0 Top Innovators by category are:

Global Seafood: Fortuna, a Philippines-based company whose Fortuna Cooler is the first fish transport box made of natural, locally sourced materials. The durable cooler replaces polystyrene containers.

U.S. Seafood: Montana Microbial...

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Maryland DNR Joins F³Tech’s Saltwater Intrusion Awareness Symposium

F³Tech is excited to announce Christine Conn, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Science and Stewardship for the Chesapeake and Coastal Service under the Maryland Department of Natural Resources is joining a panel to explore research and solutions to saltwater intrusion at a symposium in...

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Team

Mentors, coaches, investors, and other valuable members of the agriculture, aquaculture, environmental, innovation, and startup ecosystems provide their expertise to the accelerator program. The interactions and counsel they provide to participating startups is the most valuable aspect of the program.

Contact Info

For questions and additional details, you are welcome to contact the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center -- the lead organization administering the F³ Tech Accelerator Program.