That is, the prevailing interpretation seems to be that some open-access research [12] from the 1990’s played an important role in significant advancements in plant-based meats (this open-access developed process then being used in the Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger) around two decades later. If that is true, I think that could be significant evidence in favor of a funding strategy that were to prioritize open-access research for plant-based alternatives.
In footnote 12, you then (presumably accidentally) link to the same article for both links in the sentence “This article seems be the one often cited as the research which lead to the advancements.”
Looking up that article, I assume that the relevant citation you are referring to is this: “Since the 1990s, some new extrusion technologies have emerged after the improvement of the extruder. Supercritical fluid extrusion (SCFX) is a hybrid processing operation that utilizes supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) as the blowing agent in lieu of steam (Rizvi and Mulvaney 1992).” But that link takes you to a patent from 1992.
I don’t know much about how this sort of technical research works in academia, or about the definitions of “open access,” but I would have thought that patented technologies wouldn’t count as open access research, and wouldn’t be very helpful for developing the field in the years immediately following the patent?
(Apologies if this seems nitpicky, I’m just genuinely intrigued by this and its relevant to something I’m looking at at the moment)
Sorry for my slow reply! I think that I missed the notification for this.
You’re right I accidentally linked the wrong article. IIRC, this was the article that I should have linked. I believe that it outlines the high-moisture twin-screw extrusion method, a method which decades later proved important for the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger.
I hope this helps! Would be curious about any takes you have in this area.
In footnote 12, you then (presumably accidentally) link to the same article for both links in the sentence “This article seems be the one often cited as the research which lead to the advancements.”
Looking up that article, I assume that the relevant citation you are referring to is this: “Since the 1990s, some new extrusion technologies have emerged after the improvement of the extruder. Supercritical fluid extrusion (SCFX) is a hybrid processing operation that utilizes supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) as the blowing agent in lieu of steam (Rizvi and Mulvaney 1992).” But that link takes you to a patent from 1992.
I don’t know much about how this sort of technical research works in academia, or about the definitions of “open access,” but I would have thought that patented technologies wouldn’t count as open access research, and wouldn’t be very helpful for developing the field in the years immediately following the patent?
(Apologies if this seems nitpicky, I’m just genuinely intrigued by this and its relevant to something I’m looking at at the moment)
Sorry for my slow reply! I think that I missed the notification for this.
You’re right I accidentally linked the wrong article. IIRC, this was the article that I should have linked. I believe that it outlines the high-moisture twin-screw extrusion method, a method which decades later proved important for the Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger.
I hope this helps! Would be curious about any takes you have in this area.