Sustainably feeding global populations
Through this campaign, we aim to help surface and advance the next generation of technical solutions to sustainability feed global populations.
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We invite academic researchers, technology transfer offices, startups, and biotech companies to share with us non-confidential summaries of any new research, active projects, or assets contributing towards sustainably feeding global populations.
We are working with six industry partners actively looking to start new partnerships with teams in academia and industry working towards this mission – Le Groupe Bel, CP Foods, Carrot Ventures, Incotec, Hochland, and Merck. We are also working with The Good Food Institute to inform the scope of the campaign and to drive engagement with their network of companies.
Technical leads at each of our seven lead campaign partners have shared with us their R&D priorities and partnering requirements in the PDF documents linked below, and will be presenting them in more detail through our online partnering events. We will also have selected companies from across our global network presenting their R&D needs and priorities via shareable PDF requirements documents.
We have an extended network of 2,000+ individuals in R&D teams working across agritech, biotechnology, consumer goods, food production, and agrichemicals with active pipelines seeking external innovation. We will be disseminating the campaign submissions to industry teams across this network through our online partnering platform.
Our overall aim for this campaign is to start valuable new conversations between teams across academia and industry, supporting the development of new and improved agricultural technologies and innovation in food production.
The full scope of the campaign is outlined in the submission form.
If you have questions or want to better understand how you can get involved, message submissions@inpart.io, and our Global Challenge team will get back to you promptly.
How do you submit a project or solution to the campaign?
Submitting your research, technologies, or assets to the campaign and having them disseminated to industry is free for all TTOs, academics, startups or biotech companies and doesn’t require a paid subscription to Inpart. However, you will need to create a free account for our online partnering platform to submit your opportunities so that you can view the project once live.
You can submit your technology, project, or asset via the submission form, and once completed you can submit by emailing us at submissions@inpart.io. If you want to nominate an existing technology on our Connect platform you can do this via the nominator form or by contacting your account manager.
After you have submitted an opportunity, you will receive an email confirming receipt. The opportunity will then be uploaded to our partnering platform, Connect, and matched to our industry partners and companies with aligned interests from April 2024 onwards. Based on engagement from industry, it could also feature in our post-campaign content program and R&D trends report.
Who should engage with the campaign?
- Academic researchers at any stage of their career
- R&D, business development, S&E, open innovation leads from industry
- Anyone working in an R&D-centred company looking to source or connect with innovation from academia, startups and biotechs
- VC firms
- Technology transfer offices, research commercialization, and industry engagement teams/departments in academic institutes
Our Global Challenge campaigns are free and open to all participants.
You will need to create an account on our online partnering platform to submit or review submissions. It’s free and should take less than a minute to join.
What is our industry R&D network looking for?
The scope of this campaign has been informed by our industry partners and the engagement of R&D teams across our global industry network using our online partnering to identify new partners.
The R&D priorities and partnering requirements of each of our industry partners are shared via shareable PDFs linked below.
- Le Groupe Bel
- Charoen Pokphand Foods
- Carrot Ventures
- Incotec (part of Croda)
- Hochland
- Merck Group
- The Good Food Institute
The scope of the opportunities sought by companies using our online partnering platform also includes:
- Agritech and precision agriculture
- Sustainable agrochemicals
- Crop health, productivity, and climate resilience
- Soil health and water management
- Improving food production through sustainable storage, preservation, and automation
- Cellular agriculture and alternative proteins
- Improving nutrition in food
- Animal health and welfare
- Synthetic biology
Additional companies from our network have also shared their R&D priorities and partnering requirements.
Other important details
- Information about your project or technology will be distributed to industry R&D teams with aligned research interests through our online matchmaking platform, Connect.
- Submitting your work does not require a subscription to our platform, there will be no costs from Inpart at any stage.
- Support from our team of STEM experts will be provided where required to review and quality-control submissions.
- Any information sent to us should be non-confidential.
- If you are aware of research or technology transfer taking place at your institute or company to develop new innovations addressing the challenge, please share this submission form with relevant colleagues or contacts.
- A maximum of 6 submissions can be made per department or faculty and we reserve the right to only accept research that is aligned with the aims and themes outlined in the campaign scope.
- For institutes or biotech companies subscribed to our Connect platform with a submission limit, any new technologies that are submitted to the global challenge will not count towards your submission total. After the campaign closes, this exemption will no longer apply, and you may be asked to unlist technologies and/or upgrade your submission limit if your current limit is exceeded.
- Universities, biotechs or startups with relevant technologies already listed on Inpart can nominate technologies