Sharon Wrobel is a technical reporter for The Times of Israel.
Israel seeks an R center
The Israel Innovation Authority has announced a call for proposals to identify new infrastructure to build R facilities.
Fermentation, long used to produce beer, is also used to harness the alchemical functions of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi. Precision fermentation uses microbes as “cell factories” to produce proteins, enzymes, flavors, vitamins, pigments, and fats. Used to produce everything from meat and seafood to milk, ice cream, butter, cheese and products such as gelatin.
“We hope that this infrastructure for precision fermentation of microorganisms for food purposes will help strengthen the Israeli ecosystem and increase the progress of startups and corporations running on scaling responses in this field,” said Dror Bin, executive director of Israel Innovation. Authority. .
The IIA that fermentation infrastructure R
Specifically, the IAA call is for the creation of an R fermentation infrastructure.
The select protein segment includes plant-based meat, dairy, and egg options, cultured dairy products, cell-based meats and seafood, and fermentation processes and products. the increased ability of various corporations to take advantage of R.
Israeli corporations lead global investments in food generation in the plant-based protein of choice sector, and the moment for the United States for the budget invested in the protein industry of choice as a whole, according to Israel’s Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit that seeks to publicize studies and innovation in food technologies.
The global protein of choice industry attracted $1750 million in the first part of 2022, with $320 million invested in blue and white protein startups and choice companies, accounting for 18% of the total. In fermented proteins, Israel ranks first after the United States. absorbing 38% of global investments in this domain with $152 million in investments, and also ranks first in the world in number of fermentation startups with 12 companies.
At the same time, however, Israel lacks some of the supporting infrastructure for local industry in the form of multidisciplinary study centers, generation movement systems (from educational laboratories to industry), studies and grants, and rapid innovation centers for fermentation generation startups.
Elsewhere, Israeli food-generating startup Remilk, a cultured milk and dairy developer, announced plans in April to open Denmark’s “largest” cowless milk production facility. Founded in 2019, the startup produces milk proteins through a yeast-based fermentation process that makes them “chemically identical” to those discovered in cow’s milk and dairy products.
“Israel has marked the food generation industry, which can generate just 55,000 well-paying jobs in the economy until 2030, as a precedent of R.
Over the past decade, the IIA has allocated NIS 230 million in subsidies to the food generation industry, more than NIS 140 million spent on select proteins.
Bin noted that approximately “90 percent of this has been allocated since the beginning of 2020, further testimony to the expansion of this ecosystem in Israel. “
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