TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges and opportunities in food engineering
T2 - Modeling, virtualization, open innovation and social responsibility
AU - Saguy, I. Sam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - Food engineering should shed its historical mindset, embrace new challenges and opportunities that the 21st century holds. Unabated scientific progress and breakthroughs highlight mounting challenges with some vital paradigm shifts. Four main challenges have been identified: modeling, virtualization, open innovation (OI) and social responsibility (SR). The shift from empirical to physics-based food modeling is paramount to benefit from new sensor technology, proliferation of the 'Internet of Things', and big-data information. An overriding part of modeling continues to be food uniqueness and complexity, consumer needs and expectations, health and wellness, sustainability and SR. Virtualization is to significantly benefit from expanding computational power, dedicated software, cloud computing, big data, and other breakthroughs. Collaboration and partnerships with all innovation ecosystem stakeholders are paramount. Academia's role as a 'startup university' requires revising its intellectual property models, curricula rejuvenating, OI, creativity, employability and SR. Food engineers are at a verge of a very prosperous future.
AB - Food engineering should shed its historical mindset, embrace new challenges and opportunities that the 21st century holds. Unabated scientific progress and breakthroughs highlight mounting challenges with some vital paradigm shifts. Four main challenges have been identified: modeling, virtualization, open innovation (OI) and social responsibility (SR). The shift from empirical to physics-based food modeling is paramount to benefit from new sensor technology, proliferation of the 'Internet of Things', and big-data information. An overriding part of modeling continues to be food uniqueness and complexity, consumer needs and expectations, health and wellness, sustainability and SR. Virtualization is to significantly benefit from expanding computational power, dedicated software, cloud computing, big data, and other breakthroughs. Collaboration and partnerships with all innovation ecosystem stakeholders are paramount. Academia's role as a 'startup university' requires revising its intellectual property models, curricula rejuvenating, OI, creativity, employability and SR. Food engineers are at a verge of a very prosperous future.
KW - Enginomics
KW - Four-helix
KW - Open innovation
KW - Social responsibility
KW - Startup university
KW - Virtualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84956595166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2015.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2015.07.012
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AN - SCOPUS:84956595166
SN - 0260-8774
VL - 176
SP - 2
EP - 8
JO - Journal of Food Engineering
JF - Journal of Food Engineering
ER -