The big breakthrough comes though when large food companies use their innovation power to create a new type of food chain.
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Reliable fast food is still an innovation for emerging market consumers.
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With the world heading towards a population of nine billion, Syngenta has come to realize that the only way to feed everyone is to foster as much innovation in food systems and technology as possible.
Michael Cembalest, chief investment officer of JP Morgan, says he is more interested in areas that work to counter-act rising food prices by adding innovation and expanded planting space, like seed companies, infrastructure and harvesting equipment makers, grain processors and fertilizer companies, than in agricultural commodities, which may be risky if conditions change earlier than expected.
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Dramatic cuts in education, in clean energy, in innovation, in food safety and other areas.
Innovation in the non-food arena was also driven by health, as well as home care, beauty care and self care trends.
There is still a lot of space for innovation in the world of food and agriculture, especially if you begin to think outside the box of American commercial agriculture.
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Farm-technology innovation in the 1920s put cheaper food on people's plates but wrecked small farms that couldn't afford gas-driven combines.
Throughout the city is evidence of Barcelona's ability to blend tradition and innovation in art, architecture, food and even sport.
The Accenture innovation engine risks a continuation of product innovation and the trench warfare that has characterized the food industry.
The airline's seatback entertainment consoles offer a broader variety of TV, movies and music than most, but the real innovation is that they also allow passengers to order food and drink at almost any point during a flight.
The PayPalX conference in late October brought 2, 000 developers together to discuss innovation in money ( iconcessionstand, a system for buying food through the mobile at live events, won the developer grand prize).
Now a different concern is growing: whether supermarkets have become so powerful that they are damaging the profitability of farms and food manufacturers, driving some out of business and discouraging investment and innovation by the rest.
They may not look inspiring, but deep in the recesses of their brains they have these little ideas--a fast-food restaurant concept no one has ever anticipated, an assembly-line innovation that can lower production costs by 50%, a retirement-plan wrinkle to save everyone's 401(k)--and, someday, assuming they can find their toothbrushes amid the stash of moisturizing-cream bottles in their travel bags, they are going to realize their dreams.
'Mr Ghaziri travels a lot and brings us all kinds of new food ideas from abroad, ' says a Barbar manager when asked about their innovation policy.
We acknowledged that improved agricultural innovation and trade would improve the lives of ASEAN citizens by increasing food supplies to those areas that need it most.
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And if Scotland becomes more self-contained as an economy (the way, for instance, that the Scottish government urges food shoppers to buy local) there could be a hindering effect on growth and innovation resulting from reduced competition and variety.
Over the past 10 years, 278 new drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to data from the InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation.
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