Phone Number
+30 24410 64780 | +30 24410 64787
Course Outline – New Product Research and Development
Course Responsible: Theofanis Georgopoulos
During the course, students will be able to follow all the stages of the development of new food products since, divided into groups, they will be able to create their own new food based on specific prerequisites. The course will cover the process of creating new food products from the birth stage of the idea, its formation and develop ment, market research and its placement in it, packaging and increasing the scale of production. Particular emp hasis will be given to the methodology of developing new food recipes with the aim of creating the best and most widely accepted product. As a result, the participants will learn to recognize the different evolutionary stages of the process through the team creation of their own new product, understand the importance of the para
meters that regulate their successful outcome and will be able to organize and manage the development of new products. The familiarization, learning and use by participants of methods for the development and evaluation of novel food recipes will be a key point of reference.
The general competences that the student should have acquired and which the course aims at are:
· Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
· Decision making
· Group Task
· Production of new research ideas
· Project design and management
· Criticism and self-criticism
· Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
