Nutritional Testing Equipment to Support Emerging Agri-Food Businesses

支持新兴农业食品企业的营养测试设备

• 批准号: 546601-2019
• 负责人: Yates, Colin
• 金额: $ 6.68万
• 依托单位: Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research Tools and Instruments Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=692458
• 关键词: Nutritional; Testing; Equipment; Support; Emerging

In support of the innovation needs of SMEs in the agri-food production and processing sector in London, ON and the surrounding region, Fanshawe requests funding to purchase nutritional testing equipment design to extend its services beyond product development into pre-commercialization and quality assurance/control supports. The requested equipment is largely unavailable to local and regional SMEs due to the costs associated with private labs and a gap between support for discovery-based, as opposed to applied, research in the regional ecosystem that Fanshawe already has the infrastructure and expertise to fill through its Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Biotechnology (CARIB) labs and the Centre for Bioeconomy (CBE@FAN) run out of those labs. Ultimately, by providing companies with the ability to test their products to determine nutritional values, concentration of ingredients and composition of products, and stability of formulations, Fanshawe will be able to assist companies in not only de-risking the product development stage through its supports for innovation, but also reducing costs associated with taking products past that early stage of development in order to successfully go to market. On top of these benefits, the training available to Fanshawe students through their work on applied research projects with industry partners and on the requested equipment, combined with the training opportunities available for representatives from industry partners who engage with Fanshawe College personnel on projects, will help to address a growing skills gap in the sector and introduce students with the biotechnology and instrumentation skills to the innovative food and beverage companies that need their talent.

为了支持SME在伦敦，ON和周边地区农业食品生产和加工领域的创新需求，Fanshawe要求资金购买营养测试设备设计，以将其服务范围扩展到产品开发中，以扩展到商业前和质量保证/控制支持。由于与私人实验室相关的成本以及对基于发现的支持相关的成本，而不是在该区域生态系统中进行的研究，因此所请求的设备在很大程度上是无法获得的，而在对基于发现的基于发现的支持之间，Fanshawe已经具有基础设施和专业知识来填补其在Biotechnology（CAREBS）实验室（CARENOLOCE）实验室的基础架构和专业知识，该中心是Bioecem of tabs of Caribs of Fornove and Fan inf infers of Cragnologe and for@@infors in of Fornove of Carlibs of For@@@nabs of@@@exceceb。最终，通过为公司提供测试其产品以确定营养价值，成分的浓度和产品组成以及配方的稳定性，Fanshawe将能够帮助公司不仅通过其对创新的支持来降低产品开发阶段，还可以降低与过去的早期开发相关的成本，从而取得成功，从而成功地获得了市场的发展。 On top of these benefits, the training available to Fanshawe students through their work on applied research projects with industry partners and on the requested equipment, combined with the training opportunities available for representatives from industry partners who engage with Fanshawe College personnel on projects, will help to address a growing skills gap in the sector and introduce students with the biotechnology and instrumentation skills to the innovative food and beverage companies that need their talent.