Food Innovation Research Studio (First)

加拿大的食品加工业是该国最大的制造业部门，负责的 超过全国GDP的9%和230万个工作岗位。组成安大略省食品的113,395家公司和农场 行业支持了726,200个工作岗位和852亿美元的年收入。多伦多是第二大食物 北美产区，仅次于洛杉矶。安大略省一半以上的食品加工活动 在大多伦多地区举行。乔治·布朗学院食品创新与研究工作室 (一)通过整合应用的专家支持安大略省食品和饮料行业的产品开发 与尖端研究实验室和测试厨房进行研究，以确保新的食品和饮料产品 以及时、经济高效和以客户为中心的方式进行开发和优化。到目前为止，第一个有 帮助131家客户开发212款新产品，优化235款现有产品，将52款产品推向市场， 并提供273项市场调研服务。最近，超过1600万美元被投资于第一基础设施， 由安大略省南部联邦经济发展局、加拿大创新基金会 和乔治布朗学院，使第一家公司能够将创新产品的数量翻一番 并扩展其服务，以满足客户不断变化的需求。首先是寻求续签NSERC TAC投资，将服务扩展到整个价值链，从概念到原型开发， 测试(感官、定性、定量)和精细化，直到创建新的制造工艺， 以及扩大对商业化放大准备援助的支持。

Canada's food processing industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the country, responsible for more than 9% of national GDP and 2.3M jobs. The 113,395 companies and farms that make up Ontarios food industry support 726,200 jobs and $85.2 billion in annual revenue. Toronto is the second largest food producing region in North America, after Los Angeles. More than half of Ontarios food processing activities take place within the Greater Toronto Area. George Brown Colleges Food Innovation and Research Studio (FIRSt) supports product development in Ontarios food and beverage industry by integrating expert applied research with cutting-edge research laboratories and test kitchens to ensure new food and beverage products are developed and optimized in a timely, cost-effective and customer-focused manner. To date, FIRSt has helped 131 clients develop 212 new products, optimize 235 existing products, move 52 products to market, and provide 273 marketing research services. Over $16M has recently been invested in FIRSt infrastructure, by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and George Brown College, to enable the FIRSt to double the number of innovative products brought to market and to expand its services to meet the evolving needs of clients. FIRSt is seeking renewed NSERC TAC investment to expand services across the entire value chain, from concept and prototype development, testing (sensory, qualitative, quantitative) and refinement, through to creating new manufacturing processes, and expanding support for scale-up preparation assistance for commercialization.