Dairy Innovation Program
The Dairy Innovation Program builds a pipeline for dairy farmers and food entrepreneurs to ideate, pilot, and scale up value-added dairy products, positioning them as startups able to successfully progress in capitalization, commercialization, and competitions such as Grow-NY.
Dairy Runway Program
The Dairy Runway program welcomes food entrepreneurs and dairy innovators with early-stage ideas for value-added dairy products to participate in a virtual Cornell-hosted entrepreneurship course that focuses on initial product concept and customer discovery.
Up to 10 teams will be selected to the cohort and participate in a FREE, multi-week virtual course that combines self-directed online learnings and one-on-one instructor check-ins. Participants who successfully complete the course will advance to the program’s Kitchen Incubator stage to test their product’s technical feasibility.
Northeastern Dairy Product
Innovation Competition
The Northeastern Dairy Product Innovation Competition ran in 2023 to build on the region’s tradition of producing exceptional quality milk and products and supported innovators working to develop new value-added dairy products using milk and/or dairy ingredients produced int the Northeast.
