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A Unique Collaborative Research Model for the Agri-food Industry

Bringing together competing companies around the same table with researchers to innovate: this is the challenge that the Consortium for Research, Innovation and Transformation of Agri-food (RITA) of SM has been focusing on since 2017. And it works.
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“There is the industry which has challenges to overcome, and the researchers who have solutions,” summarizes Salwa Karboune, professor at the Department of Food Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry at SM and scientific director of the Consortium RITA. “We consider each challenge as an opportunity to innovate. »

To read the full article:  (available in French only).

Article written by Miriane Demers-Lemay

Published in the special Research section of the newspaper Le Devoir on November 13, 2021

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