Innovation centre that converts seafood ideas into profitable businesses

When it was officially opened in October 2009, BIM’s Seafood Development Centre in Clonakilty, Co Cork, was welcomed by the fishing and aquaculture sectors for being the first purpose-built location whose aim was to foster innovation, facilitate new ideas and assist companies in developing structured business plans to ascertain if their ideas were on the right track before committing to capital investment.

 

 At the core of the SDC was a fundamental decision by BIM to move away from bulk commodity to instead delivering added-value through the production and marketing of imaginative and consumer-friendly fish-based products. Five years on how has the SDC performed?

Inshore Ireland spoke to the seafood agencies Director of Business Innovation and Development, Donal Buckley to see if the centre was delivering on its concept.

Fully story & three company profiles in the July issue