The University of Cambridge Open Innovation Forum will give up to 15 researchers, innovators and technology developers the chance to pitch their ideas to a panel of key decision makers from important food and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firms, including Unilever, General Mills, Tate & Lyle and Heinz. The Forum is part of the Food & FMCG Innovation Pitching Event, to be held on Monday, 11 March 2013 at the Hauser Forum, Cambridge.
The Forum was established in 2010 by IfM Education and Consultancy Services, the dissemination arm of the Institute for Manufacturing, to encourage open collaboration between industry and University researchers. The Forum is made up of senior professionals from companies involved in the food and consumer goods sectors, who have indentified five areas where they are looking to collaborate with small commercial or university-based organisations: life sciences, materials, manufacturing, IT/electronics, and marketing and business models.
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Food industry giants call for pitches from University inventors
14 January 2013
University inventors and entrepreneurs whose research has applications in the food and consumer goods sectors will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas to representatives from major multinational companies, at an event to be held at the Institute for Manufacturing this spring.