The latest thinking in food and drink new product development (NPD) will be featured in seminar called ‘Breakthrough Innovation’ taking place in London on April 14.
The Labour Party is considering legislation covering food and drink formulation as a means of reducing Britain’s obesity crisis, estimated to cost the National Health Service £4.2bn a year.
Big food and drink brand owners are now tapping into the global intelligence derived by ‘crowd sourcing’ via the internet, thus extending the reach of ‘open innovation’ to develop the next generation of products targeted at different markets.
Unilever is aiming to complete ‘want summits’ in which staff identify a wish-list of technologies and desires across all of its key categories by the end of the year as it ramps up its open innovation activities.
Is open innovation just a fancy term to describe what manufacturers have been doing for years, or is it genuinely changing how (and how fast) new products get to market?
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