Crops to the Clinic to the Consumer: Soy-Based Foods by Center co-Director

Steve Clinton

Technology Commercialization Integral to the Academic Health Research Culture by FIC

member Chanden Sen

Food Center Inaugural Meeting Inspires 70 Innovators The premier meeting of Ohio State’s new Food Innovation Center was highly rated by participants. Innovative approaches for member engagement included speed networking, enabling fast effective knowledge sharing. Compelling presentations on the commercialization pathway set the stage for facilitated brainstorming. Member feedback shows great effectiveness. Let us know if you have ideas or seek participation in our next event.

More than half of all Food Innovation Center faculty members participated in the August 31, 2010 event.

Invited guests included prospective center members and board members.

Participants represented ten colleges, two VP units, and two external organizations.

Evaluations were overwhelmingly positive, with the meeting rated a 4.2 on a 5-point scale.

Three Innovation Incentive awards sustain meeting momentum; posters featured the 11 ongoing seed projects.

Highlights: Innovate – Network – Brainstorm

Inspired to Impact the World with Innovation

Speed Networking Really Works

Brainstorming for Food

Tomatoes, Lycopene, and

Prostate Cancer

• FIC Faculty Collaborators

– Steven K. Clinton

– Steven J. Schwartz

– David Francis

– Robert Curley

– Earl Harrison

● Object: Inspire new trans-college collaborations.

● 14 three-minute conversations with different center members.

Results: ● More than 90% of participants met at least one potential new collaborator; 86% met one from a college other than their own.

A Call for Innovation from FIC Director Ken Lee

● Object: Apply design thinking to complex food challenges. ● Teams of FIC members devised innovative solutions to malnutrition in the developing world, childhood obesity, and food contamination. ● Michael Bills, Fisher COB, inspired the sessions.

Results: ● Three new teams earn innovation awards

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Results:

Three New Teams Resulting from the Innovation Brainstorm New collaborations and approaches were inspired by meeting participation and the center announced a planning grant competition to support innovative steps to improve life quality through food. Projects funded at $10,000 each (asterisk* indicates FIC faculty):

1. Zinc Deficiency Contributes to Chronic Systemic Inflammation in Obesity *Daren Knoell, Pharmacy (PI); Mingjie Liu, COM; Qinghua Sun, CPH & Med; Martha Belury, EHE; *Mark

Failla, EHE; *Robert Murray, COM 2. Planning Towards an NSF-IGERT in Urban Food Security and Nutrition

*Parwinder Grewal, FAES (PI); *Cheryl Achterberg, EHE; *Steven Clinton, COM; *Amy Cohen, Law 3. Rapid Assessment of Third Frontier Funding Opportunities for Food Innovation Center Faculty Members

*Valente Alvarez, FAES (PI); *Stephen Myers, FAES & OBIC; Food Innovation Center; Barbara Vieira, OBIC; Shannon Hollis, OBIC; Elysabeth Bonar Bouton, OBIC

Results:

Participant Ratings - where 1= poor, 5 = excellent: Q1: Please rate the following meeting elements: Average:

Morning innovation talks:

A Call for Innovation at Ohio State (Ken Lee)

Technology Commercialization as an Integral Component of the Academic Health Research Culture; Natural Vitamin Tocotrienol Against Stroke: A Translational Journey from the Molecule to Pre-Clinical Trial (Chanden Sen)

Crops to the Clinic to the Consumer: Soy-Based Foods (Steve Clinton)

4.1

Speed networking 4.4

Innovating solutions to complex food challenges: Brainstorming & design thinking innovation session (facilitated by Michael Bills)

3.9

Posters of winning seed grants 3.7

Venue (The Ohio Union) 4.7

Refreshments at breaks 4.3

Food at lunch 4.3

Time of year the meeting was held 4.3

Publicity for the meeting 4.0

Event overall 4.2

Q2: Did you meet at least one potential new collaborator through speed networking?

If yes, estimate the number of potential new collaborators you met?

If yes, did you meet at least one potential collaborator from a college other than yours?

Yes: 20 ~ No: 2

Average = 2.8

Yes: 19

Q3: Are you planning to apply for an Innovation Incentive? Yes: 5

Unsure: 13 No: 4

24 respondents submitted an evaluation form; not all respondents completed every question. Full text of open-ended comments from the questions 4-8 available upon request to fic@osu.edu.