What does it take to secure regulatory “approval” for cultivated meat products? There is a dearth of public information, yet the appetite for how to “get a product through” a regulatory process efficiently and successfully is limited. Innovation in the policy space is often a lag behind technology innovation. Cultivated meat policy is an exception, and it has been no accident, requiring a brand-new approach to policymaking that is integrated into product design and integration. During this presentation, the view on what it has taken to move a cultivated meat product through regulatory process will be discussed. The presentation will cover topics including the zero-to-one nature of novel foods regulation, public-private-academic dependencies, stakeholder relationships, policy innovation approaches, product design integration, scientific field creation and management, and the necessity of political realities that define regulation in a global economy. Speaker: Eric Schulze, PhD