Innovation Advisors Services and Capabilities

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Helping clients turn insights into new products, services, and technologies that have meaningful impact for people and business

Our Innovation Advisors help clients innovate by driving digital transformation, building capacity, providing insight, and accelerating technology from lab to market. We deliver consulting services and analysis that are rooted in research and reflect our multidisciplinary expertise. We believe in the power of teams, and our approach to learning streamlines the path to market for technologies and delivers better products with the potential for positive business and human impact.

We work with a variety of global corporations, federal agencies, and foundations to deliver actionable insight, create meaning, and discern the path ahead—so they can solve their toughest innovation challenges.

With a 50-year record of success across the entire innovation life cycle, we know what works. Our blend of technical and creative competencies allows us to approach your projects as problem solvers, whether that means defining how digital transformation will impact your strategy and operations, designing a customized innovation process and training to build your innovation capabilities, or undertaking a technology landscape or scouting project.

RTI Innovation Advisors is your partner on your innovation journey.

Replace, Reduce and Remake: A Framework for Innovating with Sweeteners

Curious about sugar reduction? We are too. We made a podcast about our work in this space! In our inaugural episode, host Annalee Witte sits down with food scientist and Innovation Advisor, Micaela Cox, to discuss sweetener innovations. Micaela shares her insights into how food companies are navigating the growing demand for healthier, sustainable sugar alternatives. They explore:

Replace: The challenges and risks of current artificial and natural sweeteners, including aspartame and erythritol.
Reduce: Strategies to reduce sugar while maintaining sweetness, and how companies are exploring new ways to enhance flavor perception.
Remake: Cutting-edge approaches like fermentation and molecular farming to produce sustainable sweeteners.

Watch the full episode here