Overview

1. Green Gold the Tech-Challange
Dr. Elene Kakabadze
015730668427
elene.kakabadze@gmail.com
19.04.2021

2. Our experiences from Bio.Kitchen suggest a clear set of values
enabling lean development of life science innovation.
Rapid Prototyping
Transdisciplinarity approach
Hacker Community
Freedom to operate
Founder’s Mindset
Its all about YOUR project!

3. Green Gold
Challenge ● Avocado is the holy grail of
healthy lifestyle and nutrition.
● Avocado market grows at
5.72% p.a.
● Global market size of US$17.905
billion by 2025.
● High demand in developed
economies.

4. Why is it in
demand?
It‘s tasty
It has high nutritional value
It has high fiber content
It‘s health beneficial
It‘s trendy

5. Avocado the
subtropical tree ● Endemic to Central
America
● Domesticated
● 500 varieties
● Grows not true to the seed
Growth range

6. Problems
Propagation
● Cloning
● Grafting
● Nurseries
Sustainability
● Monocultures
● Deforastation
● Water footprint
● CO2 footprint
Fairtrade
● Production in
global south
● Ethical production
● High demand
● ‘Blood Avocados’

7. Solutions?
● Lab cultivation
● Cold-hardy breed selection
● Development of marketing
strategies
● Business model for
European avocado farming
(e.g. in greenhouses)
● Solutions for sustainability
● Waste management
(bioplastics)
● Fairtrade solutions

8. Cloning
Technology
The offered Tech Challenge
course will teach students
from all backgrounds how to
cultivate avocado and
propagate clones using state
of the art laboratory plant
cloning techniques.

9. Bio.Kitchen is an open community lab for tech-talents
5 workstations: micro- and molecular biology, chemistry, lab-on-Chip and lab automation
Rüdiger
Trojok
Lab Lead
Leo
Sprengel
Lab Assistant
Andreas
Jefimowicz
Lab Assistant
Dr. Elene
Kakabadze
Freelancer
www.utum-bio-kitchen.de

10. The resulting avocado plants
will be given to the Munich
Urban Colab and can serve as
decorative tropical office
plants