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“Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend their product reach, improve their costs, increase their returns. What's very important is in-house research.”

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Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

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There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

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