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INARTIS NETWORK: Helping Vivent Accelerate Innovation | Phytl Signs

Written by viventsarl | Sep 1, 2019 5:47:25 PM

Over 130 R&D projects launched. Over CHF 50 million in public funding secured. Those are the achievements of INARTIS NETWORK in a few words. Yet it has done more. It has enabled its innovators to turn R&D project into reality. Read about Vivent’s success story.

When stressed by pests, diseases or environmental factors, plants emit tiny electrical signals. If a cost-effective system could capture, analyse and translate those signals automatically, crop researchers, growers and suppliers could use the data to boost crop yields, reduce crop losses or use less crop protection. Vivent Sàrl, a pioneer in harnessing biosignals, and its partner Agroscope, the Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural research, are working on such a system. In 2017, they turned to INARTIS NETWORK for innovation advice and support.

To read about how INARTIS worked with Vivent click on this link: INARTIS Success Stories