Research collaboration
Shared design and shared intellectual contribution with a university or institute, leading to co-authored publication. Contribution, costs and authorship agreed in writing before work begins.
Partners
Collaboration and partnership
The center works with organisations across the innovation chain — from institutes generating the underlying science to the distributors who ultimately have to explain a product to a grower.
Network
Who we work with
Partner identities are published with consent. Where a collaboration is confidential, it appears here only as a category.
Research institutes
Universities
Industry
AgTech startups
Public agencies
Funding bodies
Growers
Cooperatives
Regulatory advisors
Investors
Distributors
Partner trial sites
Partnership models
Four ways to work with the center
Partner trial site
Run our published protocols at your site under a shared SOP, producing data that is genuinely comparable across environments. Suitable for organisations with land and staff but without a validation methodology.
Innovation programme
Multi-season agreements with companies that need a continuing field research capability without building and staffing one. Fixed annual scope, priced ahead of the season.
Public and funded projects
Participation in nationally and internationally funded consortia as the field validation work package. We hold the experimental design and reporting responsibility.
Terms
What partnership does not mean
Collaboration does not alter how a trial is designed, analysed or reported. A partner receives the same standard as a first-time client, including when the result is unwelcome.
- 01No partner receives preferential interpretation of their data.
- 02Commercial relationships are disclosed in any publication arising from joint work.
- 03We decline partnerships that would compromise our position as an independent evaluator.
- 04Long-standing partners are subject to the same conflict-of-interest review as new ones.
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Propose a collaboration
Tell us what you want to build, over what horizon, and what you would bring to it. Substantive proposals get a substantive answer, including when the answer is no.