In Season 3 of Branching out: the forest podcast, we explore how scientists in IUFRO collaborate across disciplines to tackle emerging topics through Task Forces. We continue the Season with the topic of innovation and the Task Force on Scaling-Up Science-based Forest Sector Innovation.

Host Gerda Wolfrum from IUFRO HQ and co-host Leila Rossa Mouawad from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO’s Communication Working Party, spoke with Task Force co-leads Lyndall Bull, an Australian forester with expertise in innovation and the bioeconomy trained at the University of Melbourne, and Rajat Panwar, a professor of responsible and sustainable business at Oregon State University, USA. They emphasized the importance of supporting the scaling up of science‑based innovation in the forest sector by raising awareness, strengthening education and communication, and promoting collaboration and partnerships among multiple stakeholders

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