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Canada has an extensive range of research centres, food incubators, accelerators and labs supporting food and beverage innovation through the research they do and/or the services they offer. Each week throughout 2023, we highlighted an organization that’s supporting food innovation in Canada.
To help make it easier to find a resource, here’s a list of all the organizations we’ve highlighted to date:
Ag-West Bio
Alacrity Cleantech
Biopterre
BioFoodTech
BC Food Hub Network BC Beverage Technology Access Centre
BC Food & Beverage Association
Caddle
Canada's Advanced Manufacturing Cluster
Canada’s Smartest Kitchen
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development
Centre for Natural Products and Medical Cannabis
Centre of Seafood Innovation at Vancouver Island University
Cultivated B Canada
Cyber Science Lab
David Sobey Centre
Emergence
Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative (EMILI)
Fanshawe College Centre for Research and Innovation
Food and Agricultural Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
Food and Beverage Innovation Centre at Niagara College
Food Innovation & Research Studio (FIRSt), George Brown College
Food Processing Development Centre
Good to Grow
GreenCentre Canada
INAF Invitro Digestion Platform InBe NomadLab
Innofibre
Innovate BC
Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC
Kemitek
Merinov
Meat Science Lab at the University of Guelph
Mycélium
National Center for Electrochemistry and Environmental Technologies, Shawinigan College
NRC Marine Research Station
Perennia Food and Agriculture CorporationPlatform Calgary
Prairie Research Kitchen
Propel
Richardson Centre for Food Technology and Research
RPC Science & Engineering
Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre
Technology Access Centre in Bio-Innovation at La Cité College
Technology Access Centre for Aerospace & Manufacturing (TACAM), Red River College
TransBIOtech
Venturepark Labs
Verschuren Centre
Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre