TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS OF DAIRY INDUSTRY

Innovations in the Pharmaceutical Industry

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the world’s most important production sectors. However, over the last decades, pharmaceutical companies have been facing the urgent need to improve and keep their performances under tight control, an activity they are historically behindhand with, compared to other sectors, such as food or electro-mechanical industries. The increasing speed of new product d...

The Tanzania Dairy Industry

Managing Innovations Resulting from University-industry Collaborations *

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs to the firm, as an incentive to collaborate. However, he retains certain domains where he can exploit an invention without having to apply fo...

Plain packaging policy: Preventing industry innovations.

The pack is a marketing tool for the tobacco industry - its shape, colour, fonts, descriptors and logos attract and mislead smokers. Health warnings on cigarette packs serve as a knowledge reminder for smokers to quit smoking. Plain packaging eliminates brand imagery elements from cigarette packs and has many benefits, including the reduction of intention to smoke and the denormalization of smo...

Biosensors for Food and Dairy Industry

Analytical technology based on biosensor is an extremely broad field which has impacts on food and dairy sector as the online quality control is essential in food and dairy industry and efficient quality assurance is becoming increasingly important. Food producers are increasingly asking for efficient quality control methods to satisfy the consumer and regulatory requirements to improve the pro...