General Mills: Open innovation key to solving food security challenge. Can we feed nine billion people by 2050? Only if we embrace the principles of open innovation, says Jeff Bellairs, senior director of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network (G-WIN) , in this exclusive article for Foodnavigator-USA.com and FoodNavigator.com. On October 31, 2012, the earth’s population reached 7 billion. In the next 28 years, it’s projected we will add another 2 billion inhabitants, bringing our global population to 9 billion. Demographers suggest the growth will occur mostly in large, urban areas and will be skewed toward less developed countries. Additionally, longer lifespans will result in a significantly larger population of senior citizens. By 2050, our planet will be crowded, urban and old... These significant demographic changes will increasingly challenge our already constrained natural resources as more and more people seek access to water, arable land and energy.
Getting more innovative products to market more quickly The challenge of food security W. Open innovation platform for the food industry. GE: Ecomagination Challenge: Powering Your Home: Home. LinkedIn Engineering. Join 97 People looking to build NYC BigApps. I-Prize: Home. And the Cisco I-Prize winner is... Rhinnovation! Cisco CEO John Chambers and Senior Vice President of the Emerging Technologies Group Marthin De Beer announced team Rhinnovation! As the winner of the second Cisco I-Prize competition and recipient of the US$250,000 grand prize during CiscoLive! On June 29, 2010. Rhinnovation team members Darius Lau, Lizett Michel Gallegos, Claudia Alexandra Vargas Prieto, Guillermo Antonio Araiza Torres, and Juan Rodrigo Huerta Manning from Mexico entered their idea for Life Account which proposed creating a physical and virtual platform that facilitates connectivity along with smart objects, people, and information.
The Cisco I-Prize judging panel felt that this winning idea represents a good market opportunity for Cisco and is well-positioned to become or contribute to a new Cisco Emerging Technology. A total of 2900 participants representing more than 156 countries submitted 824 ideas to the competition.