Research & development for confronting social issues ―From the field of Research & Development in food companies―

Abstract

Recently, confronting the problems of social sustainability and human well-being has become the "common good of society," and solutions to these issues have attained "customer value," and are now targets of corporate R&D. In other words, solving social issues is becoming an avenue of investment returns. If respective food R&D departments of industry, government, and academia take this opportunity to collaborate in order to solve social issues by targeting "both economic and social aspects," Japan's food industry will be able to create a new "winning formula" for sustainable growth.