Plant-Based

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Establishing student groups at key universities

Universities are epicenters for creative problem-solving and cutting-edge research advancements, and they can serve as engines for interdisciplinary innovation. However, this potential is not being tapped fully by the alternative protein industry. University student groups at key universities can foster robust, in-person communities for students and researchers interested in elevating the profile of alternative proteins within the academy. This will generate a talent pipeline of informed and empowered young people poised to enter the sector after their education while simultaneously spurring greater awareness and involvement among established faculty members.

1. Academics
2. Cultivated
3. Demand Generation
4. Donors
5. Ecosystem
6. Fermentation
7. GFI
8. NGO's
9. Plant-Based
10. R&D
11. Species-agnostic
12. Workforce

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Guaranteed offtake contracts for products and ingredients

Guaranteed offtake agreements, where buyers commit to purchase a volume of product, can help secure loans for infrastructure and other high-cost projects.

1. 1 - Inception
2. Commercial
3. Cultivated
4. Ecosystem
5. End product formulation & manufacturing
6. End Products
7. Fermentation
8. Industry
9. Industry
10. Investment
11. Plant-Based
12. Policymakers
13. Production
14. Species-agnostic

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Open-access product formulation specification sheets

Open-access product formulation specifications could provide clear metrics and objectives for product developers on attributes like taste, price, nutrition, and ingredient ratios.

1. 2 - Early adoption
2. Ecosystem
3. End product formulation & manufacturing
4. End Products
5. Fermentation
6. GFI
7. Industry
8. Industry
9. Ingredient optimization
10. Plant-Based
11. R&D
12. Species-agnostic

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Expanding private label plant-based offerings

Brands, dedicated private labelers, and co-manufacturers can take advantage of the private labeling opportunity, and would benefit from developing a wide range of products to fit every category and access to R&D to meet unique needs of customers.

1. 2 - Early adoption
2. Business Services
3. Commercial
4. Distribution Channels
5. End product formulation & manufacturing
6. End Products
7. Fermentation
8. Industry
9. Industry
10. Plant-Based
11. Production
12. Species-agnostic

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Plants as a recombinant protein expression platform

Plants can serve as expression platforms similar to microorganisms used as recombinant protein hosts. This may require minimal processing into value-added ingredients, such as egg and dairy functional proteins. Plants offer scalability with less need for expensive downstream purification to isolate proteins of interest from inedible or undesirable hosts.

1. 2 - Early adoption
2. Academics
3. Commercial
4. Crop development
5. Industry
6. Industry
7. Ingredient optimization
8. Plant-Based
9. Production
10. R&D
11. Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
12. Research
13. Science
14. Species-agnostic
15. Startups

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Dedicated broker or exchange for plant-based B2B sales

Opportunity exists for a broker, marketplace, directory, or other exchange platform to facilitate B2B sales of plant-based foods as ingredients to manufacturers of frozen and prepared foods.

1. 1 - Inception
2. Business Services
3. Commercial
4. Distribution Channels
5. Industry
6. Industry
7. Plant-Based
8. Species-agnostic

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Next-generation plant-based turkey products

There has been little in the way of publicly-announced R&D or commercial efforts to develop the next generation of tasty and affordable plant-based turkey products. There is room for innovation toward different formats and more complex products with higher fidelity to conventional turkey.

1. 1 - Inception
2. Commercial
3. End product formulation & manufacturing
4. End Products
5. Industry
6. Industry
7. Investors
8. Plant-Based
9. Startups
10. Terrestrial-specific

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Expanded product development in plant-based meat snacks

Plant-based meat snacks could tap into underlying trends in snacks replacing meals and increased consumer interest in high-protein, low-sugar foods. Product innovation is needed to match the taste, price, and availability of animal options.

1. 2 - Early adoption
2. Commercial
3. Demand Generation
4. End product formulation & manufacturing
5. End Products
6. Industry
7. Industry
8. Plant-Based
9. Production
10. Seafood-relevant
11. Startups

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Forging product development partnerships among ingredient suppliers and manufacturers

Opportunities exist to coordinate product development partnerships between ingredient suppliers, strategic partners, and product manufacturers to directly engage more holistically on product formulation.

1. 1 - Inception
2. Cell culture media
3. Commercial
4. Crop development
5. Cultivated
6. Ecosystem
7. End Products
8. Feedstocks optimization
9. Fermentation
10. GFI
11. Industry
12. Industry
13. Ingredient optimization
14. Plant-Based
15. Production
16. Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
17. Scaffolding
18. Science
19. Species-agnostic

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Developing open-access model production facility blueprints

Open-access blueprints would provide a head start on facility design and allow equipment manufacturers and engineering companies to address standard industry needs.

1. 1 - Inception
2. Bioprocess design
3. Commercial
4. Cultivated
5. End product formulation & manufacturing
6. Fermentation
7. GFI
8. Industry
9. Industry
10. Plant-Based
11. Production
12. R&D
13. Research
14. Species-agnostic