Dairy Delighted With Open Innovation
The FoodCanada website reported that as the dairy industry evolves to meet changing consumer demands, new strategies to ensure innovation continues are emerging. Agropur is perhaps the best example. In 2016, it abandoned the traditional model of coming up with new products internally. Instead, its annual Inno Challenge invites potential partners in any country to submit innovative ideas for technologies, ingredients or finished products (within or outside dairy), and winners receive support to bring their concepts to market under the Agropur umbrella. “Open innovation has now become a proven, well-established method of shortening development times,” states Agropur, “by outsourcing the development of disruptive ideas and solutions to creative thinkers from around the world.”
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