Novo Nordisk Foundation Announces Support for New Open Collaborative Platform

PRNewswire reported that Claus Felby, from the Novo Nordisk Foundation said “We need to rapidly develop foods that can feed a growing world population without over-utilizing the planet’s resources. Plant2Food creates a unique opportunity to make Denmark a leader in developing plant-based foods.” Plant2Food will be an Open Innovation in Science platform focusing on open research collaboration. The universities and companies joining the platform agree to publish all results from the open research projects. “This task is too complex for a single research group or company to solve alone. In Plant2Food, we want to crunch the value chain so that both researchers and companies can derive input from unexpected sources and thereby create solutions that would otherwise not be readily available,” says Marie Louise Conradsen of Aarhus University.

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