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DEPA and NIA Food Innopolis cumulative funding
~THB 5.8B cumulative
Thailand's Food Innopolis programme, jointly anchored by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) and the National Innovation Agency (NIA), has disbursed approximately THB 5.5-6.0 billion cumulative through end-2024 across grant, matching-fund, and equity-style support to food-tech startups, processing-line digitisation projects, and food-safety R&D per NIA annual reports and DEPA programme bulletins. The flagship Food Innopolis site at Thailand Science Park (Pathum Thani) plus regional satellite hubs in Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla anchor the geographic footprint. Beneficiaries include More Meat, NRF, Cricket Lab, Sappe functional SKUs, and CPF R&D collaborations.
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Thailand's Food Innopolis programme, jointly anchored by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) and the National Innovation Agency (NIA), has disbursed approximately THB 5.5-6.0 billion cumulative through end-2024 across grant, matching-fund, and equity-style support to food-tech startups, processing-line digitisation projects, and food-safety R&D per NIA annual reports and DEPA programme bulletins. The flagship Food Innopolis site at Thailand Science Park (Pathum Thani) plus regional satellite hubs in Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla anchor the geographic footprint. Beneficiaries include More Meat, NRF, Cricket Lab, Sappe functional SKUs, and CPF R&D collaborations.
Thailand's Food Innopolis programme, jointly anchored by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) and the National Innovation Agency (NIA), has disbursed approximately THB 5.5-6.0 billion cumulative through end-2024 across grant, matching-fund, and equity-style support to food-tech startups, processing-line digitisation projects, and food-safety R&D per NIA annual reports and DEPA programme bulletins. The flagship Food Innopolis site at Thailand Science Park (Pathum Thani) plus regional satellite hubs in Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla anchor the geographic footprint. Beneficiaries include More Meat, NRF, Cricket Lab, Sappe functional SKUs, and CPF R&D collaborations.
Time scope
Cumulative disbursement through FY2024
Source basis
Supporting source
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What this tells you
Thailand's Food Innopolis programme, jointly anchored by the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) and the National Innovation Agency (NIA), has disbursed approximately THB 5.5-6.0 billion cumulative through end-2024 across grant, matching-fund, and equity-style support to food-tech startups, processing-line digitisation projects, and food-safety R&D per NIA annual reports and DEPA programme bulletins. The flagship Food Innopolis site at Thailand Science Park (Pathum Thani) plus regional satellite hubs in Khon Kaen, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla anchor the geographic footprint. Beneficiaries include More Meat, NRF, Cricket Lab, Sappe functional SKUs, and CPF R&D collaborations.
What not to do with it
Cumulative non-repayable grant, matching-fund, and pilot-line co-investment disbursement. Excludes BOI tax-exemption fiscal value.
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