{"id":12886,"date":"2026-05-20T06:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialfood.mycreativelab.gr\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:43:27","slug":"beyond-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/beyond-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond R&amp;D: What Innovation Policy Theory Tells the Food Industry About the Limits of &#8220;More Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12886\" class=\"elementor elementor-12886\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9d53dbb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9d53dbb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d545f6\" data-id=\"9d545f6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d056047 elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"d056047\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading no_stripe consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left;font-weight:700\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">Beyond R&amp;D: What Innovation Policy Theory Tells the Food Industry About the Limits of &#8220;More Science&#8221;<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d54bbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_post_details\" data-id=\"9d54bbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_post_details.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post_details_wr  consulting_elementor_post_details\">\r\n    \r\n<div class=\"stm_post_info\">\r\n\t<div class=\"stm_post_details clearfix\">\r\n\t\t<ul class=\"clearfix\">\r\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_date\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa fa-clock-o\"><\/i>\r\n\t\t\t\tMay 20, 2026\t\t\t<\/li>\r\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_by\">Posted by:\t\t\t\t<span>Thanasis Stathopoulos<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/li>\r\n\t\t\t<li class=\"post_cat\">Category:\t\t\t\t<span>Social<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/li>\r\n\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"comments_num\">\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/beyond-rd\/#respond\"><i class=\"fa fa-comment-o\"><\/i>No Comments <\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post_thumbnail\">\r\n\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-3-Medium-1110x550.png\" class=\"attachment-consulting-image-1110x550-croped size-consulting-image-1110x550-croped wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d54cd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d54cd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A 2018 article by Johan Schot and W. Edward Steinmueller, published in <em>Research Policy<\/em>, argues that the way governments and industries think about innovation has been shaped by a small number of persistent mental frameworks \u2014 and that these frameworks are no longer adequate to address the social and environmental challenges of our time. The article identifies three distinct &#8220;frames&#8221; for innovation policy, traces their historical origins, and makes the case that a third, largely underdeveloped frame is the one most urgently needed today. Though the article is addressed to policymakers and academics, its core arguments are directly applicable to food industry professionals navigating sustainability pressures, regulatory change, and the growing gap between technological investment and real-world impact.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e866508 custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"e866508\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">Frame 1: Innovation as the Engine of Growth\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ede158f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ede158f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The first frame, according to the article, emerged after World War II and rests on a straightforward premise: public investment in science and R&amp;D produces knowledge, knowledge produces innovation, and innovation produces economic growth. Under this frame, the role of government is to fund basic research and regulate problems after they appear. The role of industry is to commercialise scientific discoveries. The assumption is that negative consequences \u2014 environmental damage, health risks, social disruption \u2014 can be managed through regulation once they become visible.<\/p>\n<p>The food industry has operated largely within this frame for decades. Investment in food science, ingredient technology, processing efficiency, and packaging innovation has been treated as inherently progressive \u2014 a driver of productivity, safety, and consumer choice. Regulation, in this model, arrives after the fact: a new additive is approved, a contaminant threshold is set, a labelling requirement is introduced. The article does not dismiss this approach, but it does expose its structural limitation: it assumes that the direction of innovation is essentially neutral, and that any problems it generates can be corrected downstream. The history of food-related controversies \u2014 from trans fats to endocrine-disrupting packaging materials to ultra-processed food formulations \u2014 suggests this assumption deserves scrutiny.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12a2c8d custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"12a2c8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">Frame 2: Innovation as a Systems Problem\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f3b7ca5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f3b7ca5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The second frame emerged in the 1980s in response to the growing recognition that R&amp;D investment alone did not explain differences in innovative performance between countries. Japan&#8217;s industrial rise, in particular, prompted researchers to look beyond laboratories and ask how knowledge moves through economies \u2014 how firms learn from suppliers and customers, how universities connect to industry, how regional clusters develop shared capabilities. The concept of national systems of innovation captured this insight: what matters is not just how much a country invests in research, but how well the different actors in its innovation system are connected and aligned.<\/p>\n<p>For the food industry, this frame maps onto the growing emphasis on supply chain integration, public-private research partnerships, cluster development in agri-food regions, and the knowledge-sharing networks that link food companies, ingredient suppliers, research institutes, and regulatory bodies. It also maps onto the Triple Helix logic that has shaped food innovation policy in many countries, where universities, industry, and government are expected to collaborate on shared research agendas. The article&#8217;s contribution here is to point out that this systems approach, while more sophisticated than simple R&amp;D investment, still shares the first frame&#8217;s fundamental assumption: that more and better-connected innovation is inherently beneficial, and that social and environmental goals can be addressed separately, through redistribution and regulation, once growth has been achieved.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8298988 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8298988\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-1024x576.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-12889\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-900x506.png 900w, https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beyond-RD-1-Medium.png 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d689597 custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"d689597\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">Frame 3: Innovation as Transformation\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9847ee4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9847ee4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The third frame is where the article makes its most provocative and consequential argument. The authors contend that neither Frame 1 nor Frame 2 is adequate to address challenges like climate change, inequality, resource depletion, and the sustainability of food systems \u2014 not because they are wrong, but because they are built around the wrong question. Both frames ask how to produce more and better innovation. Frame 3 asks what kind of innovation, in what direction, serving what social and environmental purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The article describes this as transformative change \u2014 not the replacement of one technology with another, but the restructuring of entire socio-technical systems. The example the authors use is mobility: replacing petrol cars with electric cars is a Frame 1 or Frame 2 response. Restructuring the entire system of how people move \u2014 reducing car dependency, integrating public transport, cycling, shared mobility services, and urban planning \u2014 is a Frame 3 response. The difference is not incremental; it is systemic.<\/p>\n<p>The food industry is one of the most explicit examples the article cites as requiring this kind of systemic transformation. Food production, processing, distribution, and consumption are deeply embedded in patterns of resource use, land management, logistics infrastructure, cultural practice, and regulatory convention that cannot be addressed by developing new ingredients or improving processing efficiency. The article argues that genuinely transformative food system change requires opening up the question of direction \u2014 not just asking how to produce food more efficiently, but asking what food systems should produce, for whom, at what environmental cost, and governed by what principles.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18fb44c custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"18fb44c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">What This Means in Practice\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388c7d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"388c7d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The article identifies four types of failure that transformative innovation policy must address, each of which has direct relevance for food businesses and food policy professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The first is directionality failure \u2014 the absence of meaningful social processes for choosing between different development pathways. In food, this is the gap between what the industry knows how to optimize and what society actually needs from its food system. Filling this gap requires deliberation, not just market signals or regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n<p>The second is policy coordination failure \u2014 the inability of different government agencies and policy domains to align around a shared transformative agenda. Food policy sits at the intersection of agriculture, health, environment, trade, and consumer protection, each governed by separate bodies with separate mandates. The article argues that transformation requires a whole-of-government approach, with the caveat that such approaches are vulnerable to capture by incumbent interests.<\/p>\n<p>The third is demand articulation failure \u2014 the difficulty of giving voice to the preferences and needs of future users, marginalised consumers, and communities who are not currently well-served by existing food systems. This is not simply a market research problem. It requires active processes of engagement, participation, and co-design.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth is reflexivity failure \u2014 the inability of actors within a system to question their own assumptions about what they are doing and why. For food industry professionals, this is perhaps the most challenging of the four. It requires asking not just how to do what the industry already does more sustainably, but whether the current direction of food system innovation is producing the outcomes that a sustainable and equitable food system requires.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83a8738 custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"83a8738\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">The Scientist Who Doesn't Understand Society \u2014 and the Society That Doesn't Understand the Scientist\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5fb766e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5fb766e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One of the article&#8217;s more pointed observations concerns education and the skills of the researchers and professionals who are expected to drive innovation. Schot and Steinmueller argue explicitly that the knowledge base required for transformative change cannot be dominated by economics and technical disciplines alone. It must draw on sustainability transitions research, science and technology studies, governance, history of technology, and development studies. More practically, it requires individuals capable of bridging the social sciences and the STEM fields \u2014 people who can connect what is technically possible with what is socially desirable.<\/p>\n<p>The concept the authors invoke here is responsible research and innovation \u2014 an emerging practice that asks researchers and professionals to anticipate the broader consequences of their work, engage with diverse stakeholders, and remain reflexive about their own assumptions. For food professionals, this translates into a concrete challenge: the skills required to contribute meaningfully to food system transformation are not only analytical and technical, but social, political, and ethical. Understanding how food cultures work, how regulatory systems are shaped by competing interests, how marginalised communities relate to food systems, and how consumer behaviour is embedded in infrastructure and habit \u2014 these are not soft additions to a food scientist&#8217;s toolkit. According to the article&#8217;s argument, they are prerequisites for innovation that actually delivers on sustainability and equity goals.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88eb944 custom-h2-gray elementor-widget elementor-widget-vc_custom_heading\" data-id=\"88eb944\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"vc_custom_heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" vc_custom_heading  consulting_heading_font  text_align_left\" ><h2 style=\"text-align: left\" class=\"consulting-custom-title\">A Lens for the Food Industry\n<\/h2><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac125c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ac125c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Schot and Steinmueller\u2019s core argument \u2014 that the dominant frameworks for thinking about innovation are structurally unable to address systemic sustainability challenges \u2014 is directly applicable to anyone working in food production, food policy, or food system governance. The article does not suggest abandoning R&amp;D investment or innovation system building. It argues that these activities need to be reoriented around questions of direction, participation, and systemic change that the existing frameworks do not naturally ask.<\/p>\n<p>For a food industry facing simultaneous pressure around climate, nutrition, equity, and regulatory transformation, the distinction between making better products within the existing system and contributing to the transformation of the system itself is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Schot, J., &amp; Steinmueller, W. E. (2018). Three frames for innovation policy: R&amp;D, systems of innovation and transformative change. <em>Research Policy, 47<\/em>(9), 1554\u20131567<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7383e1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_post_about_author\" data-id=\"7383e1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_post_about_author.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"about_author_wr  consulting_elementor_post_about_author\">\r\n    \t<div class=\"about_author\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"author_image\">\r\n\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c72596568fa15e5d78c514cdb3c66c4323dfb5269ba0d36f78395852a3656f57?s=174&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c72596568fa15e5d78c514cdb3c66c4323dfb5269ba0d36f78395852a3656f57?s=348&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-174 photo' height='174' width='174' \/>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"author_info\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"author_name\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span>Author:<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Thanasis Stathopoulos<\/strong>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"author_content\">Thanasis Stathopoulos is an experienced Food Safety Manager with a proven track record in the food industry for almost 15 years, specializing in the design\/ implementation of Food Safety Management Systems and FSMS Education and Training. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Quality Assurance - Food Technology and has broadened expertise through interdisciplinary studies with an MSc in Science-Technology-Society (STS). Currently pursuing a PhD in the History of Technology, with research focusing on the history of food packaging, Thanasis has also spent the past six years studying and applying global best practices in Food Safety Culture. Through Social Food, he works with food production organizations on Food Safety Culture.<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9d55099 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9d55099\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d55754\" data-id=\"9d55754\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d55cc5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d55cc5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><strong>Growth through innovation\/creativity:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px\">Rather than be constrained by ideas for new products, services and new markets coming from just a few people, a Thinking Corporation can tap into the employees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><strong>Increased profits:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 13px\">The corporation will experience an increase in profits due to savings in operating costs as well as sales from new products, services and ventures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d5603c\" 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organization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/section>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d56954 elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_post_bottom\" data-id=\"9d56954\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_post_bottom.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"post_bottom_wr  consulting_elementor_post_bottom_info\">\r\n    <div class=\"post_bottom media\">\r\n\t<div class=\"tags media-body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/tag\/innovation-policy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Innovation Policy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/tag\/sustainable-food-systems\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sustainable Food Systems<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/tag\/transformative-change\/\" rel=\"tag\">Transformative Change<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"share_buttons 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Change<\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1983181 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1983181\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Latest Insights<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-343a552 elementor-widget elementor-widget-stm_news\" data-id=\"343a552\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"stm_news.default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"consulting_posts_box consulting_elementor_posts\r\n\t\t\t\tgrid\t\t\t\t\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"consulting_posts posts_per_row_1\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"post_item\">\r\n\t<div class=\"post_inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"news_item_info content_left\">\r\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"news_item_title line_under_title\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/history-of-repair\/\">When Fixing Things Was the Norm: What the History of Repair Tells Us About Food Production<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<\/h5>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"category\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/category\/social\/\" class=\"category category-0\">Social<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"news_info\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>What does the history of repair reveal about modern food production? Drawing on recent historical research, this article explores how repair, maintenance, and hands-on technical knowledge once formed the foundation of productive systems \u2014 and why these ideas are becoming increasingly relevant again in discussions around sustainability, equipment management, resilience, and industrial Food Safety Culture.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"news_info_bottom\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date icon_before\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"news_item_date\">May 22, 2026<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/history-of-repair\/\" class=\"news_item_button\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"button_icon after_icon e-font-icon-svg e-fas-arrow-right\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M190.5 66.9l22.2-22.2c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0L441 239c9.4 9.4 9.4 24.6 0 33.9L246.6 467.3c-9.4 9.4-24.6 9.4-33.9 0l-22.2-22.2c-9.5-9.5-9.3-25 .4-34.3L311.4 296H24c-13.3 0-24-10.7-24-24v-32c0-13.3 10.7-24 24-24h287.4L190.9 101.2c-9.8-9.3-10-24.8-.4-34.3z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li class=\"post_item\">\r\n\t<div class=\"post_inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"news_item_info content_left\">\r\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"news_item_title line_under_title\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/history-of-the-assembly-line\/\">Historicizing the Assembly Line<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<\/h5>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"category\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/socialfood.gr\/en\/category\/social\/\" class=\"category category-0\">Social<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"news_info\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>What can the history of the assembly line teach the modern food industry? This article explores how innovation, experimentation, cultural adaptation, and continuous improvement shaped industrial production systems \u2014 and why the transition toward sustainable food production may require the same mindset today. Drawing on David E. 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