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， 超过9%的国内生产总值和230万个就业岗位。113，395家公司和农场组成了安大略省的食物 工业支持726，200个工作岗位和852亿美元的年收入。多伦多是第二大食品 北美的一个产区，仅次于洛杉矶。安大略省一半以上的食品加工活动 发生在大多伦多地区。乔治布朗学院食品创新与研究工作室 （FIRSt）通过整合专家应用，支持安大略省食品和饮料行业的产品开发 研究与尖端的研究实验室和测试厨房，以确保新的食品和饮料产品 以及时、具有成本效益和以客户为中心的方式开发和优化。迄今为止，FIRST已 帮助131家客户开发了212种新产品，优化了235种现有产品，将52种产品推向市场， 提供273项市场调研服务。最近在FIRST基础设施上投资了超过1600万美元， 由联邦经济发展署为南安大略，加拿大创新基金会 和乔治布朗学院，使FIRSt能够将创新产品的数量增加一倍， 市场并扩大其服务以满足客户不断变化的需求。FIRSt正在寻求更新的NSERC TAC投资扩大整个价值链的服务，从概念和原型开发， 测试（感官，定性，定量）和改进，通过创建新的制造工艺， 以及扩大对商业化的扩大准备援助的支持。

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.