Cultivated meat, grown from animal cells, offers a solution to rising global protein demand while potentially reducing agricultural emissions and disease risks. Despite its promise and ongoing progress, the sector largely keeps its research and development findings private, unlike other emerging technologies that thrived through open-access science. This reluctance to share knowledge, often to protect intellectual property, slows innovation, leads to duplicated efforts, and can impede regulatory advancements. Keeping information about unsuccessful R&D private, for example, causes other companies to repeat costly mistakes. However, some organizations and companies are now embracing transparent knowledge sharing. This approach, which can include dual-publishing models to protect proprietary aspects while sharing scientific breakthroughs, is seen as vital for building a robust research ecosystem, attracting talent, and ensuring the cultivated meat sector’s long-term viability and mass commercialization.
Source: Companies: share cultivated meat breakthroughs publicly—here is how – ScienceDirect