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Partnerships @ KWS
At KWS, we believe that partnerships are key to facilitate the development and adoption of innovative approaches to improve plant breeding, agriculture methods, and sustainable farming practices. That is why we work closely with academia, scientific organizations, startups, and industry all over the world to enable and access the latest technologies, know-how, digital solutions, and tools that add value to KWS’s established business in seeds and services.
Under the objective of mutual growth, we create partnerships through joint research projects, license deals, market linkages, and/or financial engagement. To date, we have concluded a myriad of research collaborations and realized direct investments in early and later-stage startups, joint ventures, spinouts, and indirect fund investments that strategically fit our portfolio.
As a global plant breeding company and seed producer with activities in nearly 70 countries and more than 160 years of experience, we will provide you with a unique, collaborative, and open scientific environment for the further development and commercialization of your ideas or technologies. When needed, we will put at your disposition our field trials facilities, laboratories, and experienced personnel for testing and relevant assessments.
We are interested in the following areas
To meet food changing demand and sustainability goals, KWS continuously develops its portfolio incorporating promising niche and alternative crops. We are welcoming developments in crop/input substitution, alternative proteins, and sugar substitutes.
KWS seeks the latest technologies, methods, or tools aimed to improve plant genetic transformation, gene delivery, and targeted plant genome editing.
We are interested in building stronger digital solution platforms for our farmers as well as improving and securing our logistics, traceability, and CRM systems. Any solution to these topics is welcome.
We are looking for advanced methodologies/technologies in the areas of haploid induction, molecular marker technologies, and related bioinformatics tools.
We focus on optimizing field and greenhouse experimental trials to quantify and qualify plant performance. Imaging systems from below and above-ground biomass are of interest. This embraces remote sensing technologies attached to unmanned aerial vehicles, ground vehicles, and other on-farm devices.
To enhance plant traits, our technology focus lies on resistance against biotic and abiotic stress, pesticide tolerance, as well as agronomic performance traits such as yield enhancement per se.
To optimize field testing and field management, we are scouting innovative approaches in automation and sensor technologies, including GIS-based methods able to monitor and analyze the plant canopy and prevailing conditions related to nutrition, water status, and pathogen and insect stress. Besides, we are interested in smart devices able to bring significant benefits to farmers such as input savings, automation of farming activities, and collection of field data combining IoT, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
KWS is specialized in biological and chemical seed treatments with pesticide and/or growth stimulating properties. Thus, we are looking for differentiated active ingredients able to enhance plant performance, and innovative treatments focused on the eradication of seed-borne pathogens, improvement of the efficiency of microorganisms, inoculants, enzyme technologies, encapsulation, and alike.
Healthy nutrition is becoming more important and consumers increasingly reject highly processed foods. Being in the seed business for many decades we‘ve used our experience and R&D resources to turn the spotlight on protein crops with a new approach.
If you have an idea, technology or project related to our areas of interest, do not hesitate to contact us. Submit your proposal and one of our Innovation and Licensing Professionals will contact you.
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