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Rutgers and International Business Innovation Association to Launch Food Incubation Network
The International Business Innovation Association (InBIA) and the Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) are launching the Food Business Incubation Network (FoodBIN) at an inaugural conference at Rutgers Student Center on College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, on September 13-14. “FoodBIN is a global network of food business incubators, accelerators, and shared-use kitchens that will serve as […]
The next Keurig? Why Swiss-based Flatev is setting up its U.S. manufacturing in New Jersey
Lou Cooperhouse – Rutgers Food Innovation
A Revolutionary Meal: NJAES Celebrates 250th Anniversary with Rutgers-Bred Foods on the Menu
From November 10, 2015 through the end of 2016, the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) has been celebrating Rutgers 250th anniversary by showcasing an all-star variety from its plant and shellfish breeding programs each month. The select varieties are developed by Rutgers agriculture and aquaculture researchers from across New Jersey. Through the NJAES, […]
Rutgers Food Innovation Center Helping to Launch Two New Jersey Food Industry Centers
[Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) recently completed a feasibility study for a business incubation program for the City of Paterson and another study for the City of Bridgeton designed for its FIC “graduate” clients. Business Facilities magazine covered these two projects in its July/August issue.] The City of Paterson is gearing up towards the launching […]
Food Commercialization Center planned in Bridgeton
The Cumberland County Improvement Authority on Friday announced plans to bring a $9-million, 27,000-square-foot Food Commercialization Center to Bridgeton in the fourth quarter of 2017… The CCIA also plans to work closely with the Rutgers Food Innovation Center – located at 450 E. Broad St. in Bridgeton – on the project. Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center, offered a positive outlook for the new facility. “A number of our clients and our graduates at the Food Innovation Center routinely require between 2,000 to 3,000 square feet of space to meet their growing commercialization needs,” he said.”In addition, we have a number of domestic and international companies we work with that are looking immediately for this amount of space as they launch their business to serve the U.S.”
Food innovation industry could spur venture capital investment in Hawaii
Food entrepreneurship is growing in Hawaii and could bring venture capital to the Aloha State, members of a Hawaii Venture Capital Association panel said on Wednesday… “We are seeing a huge migration of venture dollars to the food space,” said Lou Cooperhouse, director of Rutgers Food Innovation Center at Rutgers University.
Starting a food business? Rutgers incubator can help
Patrick Leger stood in a processing room at Rutgers Food Innovation Center on Friday, watching as an assembly line of bottles were filled with pure strained tomatoes, First Field’s latest product… “They need a place to go,” said Lou Cooperhouse, the center’s director. “Our job is to find a pathway for them to go after they leave our facility.”
Rutgers food center announces expansion
An awards ceremony for the Rutgers Food Innovation Center on Tuesday saw the announcement of a major agriculture and economic project for Cumberland County… The planned new building would be able to house eight separate companies, Food Incubation Cen…
FIC to Lead Feasibility Study with City of Paterson to Create Food Business Incubation Program
The Rutgers Food Innovation Center (FIC) has been awarded a contract from the Paterson Restoration Corporation (PRC) to lead a feasibility study on creating a food business incubation program in Paterson, NJ. The grant to Rutgers was for $70,000, with funding to the PRC by the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The PRC and FIC will […]
