Food Stability Competition from InnoCentive Company with $20,000 Cash Prize
Applicant criteria
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Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
InnoCentive Company invites all creative people all over the world to participate in the Competition "Shelf Life Predictions & Stability Measurements" for an award of $20,000. Understanding and predicting food stability is essential to the food industry. Traditional storage trials, accelerated shelf-life trials, and kinetic assays play a role but are often found to be inadequate. The Seeker is looking for new ways to measure biochemical and/or chemical stability (e.g. off-flavor formation) in food products to make decisions or to assign shelf-lives to food products. Specifically, the Seeker requires methods to measure changes to food quality that may arise from only very small compositional changes relative to high background.
Responsibilities:
- The Solver is expected to identify principles for analytical (bio)chemical methods that measure very small changes that occur in food products in a relatively short period of time to provide an estimation of reaction rates.
- The Solver should exclusively focus on processed foods stored at ambient temperatures. Fresh fruits, vegetables, and fresh meats are not in consideration. Frozen foods are also not being considered.
- The Competitor should deliver a written proposal for the theoretical Challenge.
Conditions:
- The Challenge award will be contingent upon theoretical evaluation of the proposal by the Seeker.
- If multiple proposals meet all the Solution Requirements, the Seeker reserves the right to award only the solution which they believe best fits their needs.
- To receive an award, the Solvers will have to transfer to the Seeker their exclusive Intellectual Property (IP) rights to the solution.
- The Seeker will be willing to consider a licensing agreement for a partial award if exclusive (IP) cannot be transferred by the Solver.
Benefits:
An award of $20,000 will be given to the winner.
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