DSM
Profile
Royal DSM is a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. With annual sales of ca. € 5 billions in Nutrition cluster, DSM is one of the world’s leading developers and producers of essential nutrients and food specialties for the food and beverage industry. Its portfolio of products which includes food enzymes, savory flavours, dairy cultures and biopreservatives (DSM Food Specialties) and Vitamins, Carotenoids and Nutritional Lipids (DSM Nutritional Products) enables healthier diets and solutions to fight malnutrition with an improved ecofootprint
Competences & Capabilities
DSM has a broad competence base of more than 2000 people active in R&D with a global collaboration network of more than 100 academic groups. DSM has state-of-the-art food pilot facilities and established consumer panels to test novel ingredients for personalized food concepts. High-throughput facilities as well as advanced analytical and integrated statistical tools are available to create detailed molecular insights into the function of novel bio-ingredients in complex food matrices to help us develop desired functions such as improved texture, taste and nutritional value.
Expertise related to the EIT Food Strategic Pillars
At DSM we are using our innovative strengths to address big societal challenges, using Science as the starting point. Our Scientific competences and extensive scientific network and partnerships form the basis for our many bright solutions: DSM Nutritional Products is one of the world’s leading suppliers of vitamins, carotenoids, pre-and probiotics and other nutritional ingredients to the feed, food, pharma and personal care industries. DSM Food Specialties focusses on bio-ingredients derived from fermentation processes. Our mission is to enable better food for everyone. For example, we develop salt, sugar, waste reduction as well as mild processing solutions based on enzymes, savory ingredients and cultures for our food and beverage customers.
Contact: Oliver May, Senior Science Fellow
We promote the communication with society by participating in National Science days like “Wetenschapdag” and giving workshops to secondary schools reaching out to young people. Moreover, we launches campaigns like “DSM launches Know Your Ω™ at the 2016 AAFP Family Medicine Experience” to enable doctors to provide better diet advices. Moreover, we have established consumer panels to test novel ingredients for personalized food concepts.
Contact: Vicky Sereti, Project Manager Public-Private Partnerships
Innovation is what turns DSM’s ‘Bright Science’ into ‘Brighter Living’. It is about discovering and integrating the best, the most sustainable and commercially viable solutions to meet market needs and to drive profitable growth. The DSM Innovation Center, besides supporting innovation in the company’s core businesses, also aims to develop its Emerging Business Areas (EBAs) established over the last five years. These are new and promising growth platforms outside the scope of the company’s business groups Moreover, DSM Venturing, the outside-in arm of our open innovation approach, has invested in more than fifty emerging innovative companies in the US, Europe and Israel the last years.
Contact: Krijn Rietveld, SVP Partnering for Innovation
We collaborate closely with high schools and Universities and are currently engaged in more than 10 ITN-Marie Curie Projects focusing on the Training of young researchers. These activities bring us in contact with more than 100 Universities and R&D Organisations worldwide. Moreover, DSM promotes scientific education and training of students through scholarships and internships. With more than 20 scientist of DSM being part time professors at Universities we have fundamental ties in educating our future workforce.
Contact: Oliver May, Senior Science Fellow