
Have an Idea for the Future of Food?
The Sustainable Brands website reported that Food Matters Live is hosting the 4th Food & FMCG Innovation Pitching Event on November 17th. Individuals, research centers, and companies of all sizes are invited to pitch to members of the Open Innovation Forum with solutions that address their business needs, in areas including life sciences, materials,
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General Mills Develops New Food Products with OI Partners
The IdeaConnection website reported that since 2007, the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-Win) has connected with numerous external partners to create, develop and launch new products. This approach has helped General Mills to improve the profitability and grow the market share of its
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The New Open Innovation Landscape
The ISPIM Magazine notes that any complex corporation works with a multitude of third parties to develop better products and services. Members of your supply chain, customers, and academia are just three key groups you may consider as normal partners in innovation. Increasing the scale of your external
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New Report IDs Best Practices for Open Innovation
The Yahoo Finance website reported on a new research study–Open Innovation: Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration—that outlines what several leading organizations–including General Mills, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, Corning, and Amway– are doing to more effectively
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Arise Co-Creation Manager
The InnovationExcellence website notes that innovation has become the name of the game for businesses to compete effectively in an increasingly kinetic, globalized and technology-driven marketplace. To ensure a constant supply of new ideas, today’s corporations know that they cannot rely solely
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Open Innovation Models For India
The mbaskool website posted an article by Pranav Saraswat and Shweta Gupta which notes that open innovation models are gaining popularity in India but there has been a dearth of innovation. What needs to be done further is to communicate about this platform to more innovators and problem solvers all
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Tate & Lyle Launches Open Innovation Platform
The Food Navigator website reports that from food ingredients that reduce the blood glucose response to food intake, to natural high-potency sweeteners, digestive health and weight management ingredients, and plant-based ingredients that can mask bitter flavor, these are just some of the ingredients
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Solve Global Food Problem with Open Innovation
The Food navigator website asks the question can we feed nine billion people by 2050? Only if we imbrace the principle of open innovation, says Jeff Bellairs, senior director of the General Milla Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN). To keep pace with the world’s rapidly changing population, it
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Unilever & General Mills to share Open Innovation Experiences
The nutraingredients website reported that at the Food Vision conference in March 2013, Jeff Bellairs, senior director of General Mills’ Worldwide Innovation Network, and Patrick Lesueur, Nutrition Research R&D director at Unilever will lead an interactive session to share their organizations’

Open Innovation: A Not-So-Secret Recipe
The foodmanufacturing website notes that product development projects are often kept quiet by processors looking to protect their “secret recipes.” However, some companies such as General Mills are using open innovation to share their R&D projects with suppliers and others who may