Ed Finkel

How can food technologists and their companies adapt to and innovate within the ever-changing realities, opportunities, and constraints of food product development? A Business FIRST panel of research and development professionals held at IFT FIRST on July 19 answered this question and spoke to several related concepts.

One perennial tension within the food industry is whether to build innovative capacity from within or buy it through mergers and acquisitions (M&A’s), noted moderator Bill McDo…

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Ed Finkel is a freelance journalist based in Evanston, Ill. ([email protected]).


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