Food System Technology Innovations

Catalog description

Examines the food system innovation environment including the rapidly growing agri-tech, livestock-tech, bio-tech and food-tech ecosystems. Topics include the economic motivations for innovation in food value chains, adoption and diffusion of technology, the entrepreneurial and financing environment for food system innovation, assessing financial feasibility of new technologies and evaluating sustainability outcomes in the food value chain resulting from technology adoption. Uses guest speakers to bring insights into the strategies, risks and rewards of developing and adopting innovative technologies for the modern food system.