A look at the themes, tensions, and quiet shifts shaping food and agriculture innovation this year. The annual circuit of food and ag conferences can blur together after a while — the same buzzwords, the same stage formats, the same optimistic...
HarvestR Ancient Organics Bioscience LiveGrow Bio The economics of pest and disease management are shifting. Regulatory pressure on synthetic chemistry is tightening. Resistance to insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides is accelerating. And...
AI is accelerating the innovation cycle in ways most systems weren’t designed to accommodate. New ideas can be generated, tested, recombined, and refined at a pace that compresses what used to take months into days, sometimes hours. That speed is...
Nutrition guidance is no longer a single steady target. It’s becoming a moving set of constraints, driven by shifting federal dietary messaging, school-meal standards that translate guidance into procurement specs, and potential labeling changes...
TTFVS tracks how long it takes—from the moment you kick off a search—to reach the first solution that clearly meets your viability bar. It’s a practical, leading indicator for how smoothly your partnering motion is running. It’s not the only thing...
Why Leading Indicators Are the Key to More Predictable, Efficient Innovation Most R&D organizations still measure performance with lagging indicators—launches, patents, revenue. Those matter, but they arrive too late. By the time a project...
Halo, an AI-powered partnering platform for R&D teams, and the Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable (GUIPRR) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are pleased to announce a strategic...
Halo was honored to host Future Use of Energy in Louisiana (FUEL)‘s call for proposals among researchers in its statewide research consortium. As one of ten regional innovation engines funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, FUEL is...
In an era where innovation drives global leadership, Halo and the Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers (NACRO) are excited to announce their partnership to strengthen U.S. competitiveness by expanding industry opportunities for...
Halo was proud to host Bayer Crop Science’s third year of Grants4Ag. Grants4Ag is Bayer’s annual initiative providing funding and expertise to researchers developing novel solutions in agriculture. As part of Bayer’s CropKey approach to crop...