The Food Innovation Lab™ is a service dedicated to open innovation for the food industry developed in partnership with XTC, specialist of innovation intelligence. The mission of the Food Innovation Lab is to facilitate and accelerate concept generations and new products development thanks to two fundamental elements
Global innovation intelligence
XTC develops the biggest food innovative products world database and gives tools to analyze and identify winning innovation strategies:
XTCscan is a database of more than 170 000 innovative products listed for 15 years all over the world. Strictly qualified, it allows all the researches by crossing of criteria and words-keys whatever the objectives of the analysis (R&D, marketing, packaging, design…)
XTC trends tree is a hierarchical model which sums up all consumers’ expectations in five axis, declines them in trends and identifies new levers to answer to these expectations.
The study " winning positioning “ updated every year in partnership with TNS Worldpanel, is an analysis of performances of food innovations launched during the last three years.
Network of food specialized innovators
Thanks to partnerships with leading schools, universities, research institutes and incubators of food industry, Golden Links is able to mobilize an outstanding innovators’ network:
- Researchers in public research institutes
- Independent inventors
- Innovative start up in food industry
- Teachers in cooking and design schools
- Food sociologists
