Ole Linnet Juul Food for thought
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Perspectives from the food industry
Director General
Ole Linnet Juul
Danish Food and Drink
Federation

Ole Linnet Juul Food for thought
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Danish food industry at a crossroad/burning platform:
• High costs
• Slow productivity rates
• Outsourcing of production
• Slow domestic and international growth
That calls for:
• Urgent need to restore competition
• Embracing new possibilities (markets, products and technologies)
• Collaboration between industry and research recognizing interdependence between these two
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Ole Linnet Juul Food for thought
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Global population growth
• Food production needs to increase (security)
Diversity
• Differentiated food products to differentiated needs
Sustainable productivity
• Increasing production in an efficient and sustainable way
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Ole Linnet Juul Food for thought
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Global population growth
Diversity
Sustainable productivity
Research and innovation
Production
• Production Technology
• ICT
• Automation Technology
• Biotechnology
Processes
• Process Analytical
Technology
• Sensor technology
Products
• Nutrition
• Genomics
• Healthy food
• New recepies
• Obesity
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Ole Linnet Juul Food for thought
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• Restore competition
• Explore strongholds in Danish food research
• Strengthen international collaboration in food research
• Focusing on growth opportunities and collaboration with industry
• Research at "eye-level" relevance to and in collaboration with industry (inSPIRe)
• Increase PhD-programmes with industry
• Common challenges to funding food research
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