The Knowledge Triangle for Food Innovation by Harnessing the Tradition and Assuring Sustainability KNOWinFOOD Project as a Tool to Educate Students to Obtain Innovative Products Incorporating Bioactive Compounds

Abstract

As a result of the paradigm shifts in the jobs market of the future, the European education system should reinvent itself in order to foster innovation and to change focus to skill-based learning. One possible way is to combine the use of the digital and online media with the practical work to form the skills required by the digital factory of the future. Another challenge for Europe is to enhance the industrial innovation by tightly coupling the three components of the Knowledge Triangle: the HIGH EDUCATION as knowledge producer, the academic RESEARCH as creativity source, and BUSINESS, with its entrepreneurial spirit. Europe is also facing the loss of its cultural and material identity, inclusive the culture of traditional foods and the endangerment of sustainable food resources.