Grand challenge 1:
To design and deliver a template for an integrated UK circular cellular agriculture manufacturing value chain.
- embed whole-life value analysis for decision making when addressing operational and technical bottlenecks for Cell Ag manufacturing, ensuring responsible innovation for sustainable and ethical integration with the wider industrial system
- inform the strategy to move Cell Ag from laboratory to shopping basket through direct engagement with stakeholders and the public
- inform investment and policy to realise the goal for the UK to be the world-leading and net exporter of Cell Ag products and manufacturing technologies
Grand challenge 2:
To create the novel, underpinning manufacturing technologies to achieve the necessary process intensities in cost-effective, sustainable and ethical ways for world-class Cell Ag manufacturing.
- design and deliver a template for a UK circular Cell Ag manufacturing value chain from the outset, informing leading-edge manufacturing technologies, people and processes
- establish the value chain from raw materials to large-scale production that makes Cell Ag financially, ethically, and sustainably viable as part of UK Trade and Industry
- create the novel, underpinning technologies that will achieve the necessary process intensities at scale, in cost-effective and sustainable ways
An assessment of bottlenecks is provided to rank the need for early-TRL (Technology Readiness Level) investment (*** most critical; ** medium; * least critical) and hence provide the rationale for Hub research priorities and expertise of spokes.