Paul Truscott, business development manager at the Vineland research station in Ontario, Canada. Research is costly with little chance of a direct, let alone immediate, payoff. Just ask fruit breeders, who can labor for years testing new varieties designed to meet evolving consumer tastes and emerging environmental pressures. But a new approach to managing research at the Vineland research station in Ontario, Canada, known for its work developing fruit varieties, rootstocks, and projects in support of the province’s tender fruit and grape growers, will take a more entrepreneurial approach to research. Announced in 2007, the Vineland Research and Innovation Center […]