Vikas Mandal

Part of company - Conduct secondary research for creation of syndicated report, part of Cosmetics, Personal Care, and Home Care digital platform. Work on the future of business and innovation reports to analyze industry's upcoming innovation with Lifescience.

Conducting secondary research for ingredients, technology, processing, competitive intelligence, sustainability, circularity, digital innovation, and solution landscape.

Part of company - corporate and professional services in consumer goods, working with all types of consumer-based products from Food to CPG. Several projects that I have undertaken for primary research, technology scouting, and procurement services include dryer balls, ethanol recovery, light-based hair removal devices, amino acid-dependent energy source-based products for athletes, sustainability in beer packaging and circular economy, sustainable packaging, ingredient intelligence in the cosmetic and fragrance industry, competitive intelligence, India GCC market assessment, and consumer insights on negative PR and chemophobia.

Part of company – IP research analyst team. Worked under Food and FMCG domain. I have worked on several project studies, such as landscape, benchmark, exploratory, acquisition, collaboration, contract manufacturing, and patent analysis, etc.

Projects handled, such as coffee, skin microbiome, microalgae, tamper evident packaging, infant nutrition, package designing, bakery, sugar substitute, meat analogue, chocolate, candy, and confectionery, novel ingredients scorecard, whey protein, essential and non-essential amino acids in poultry and swine, mood enhancement ingredients, and mathematical prediction of emulsion stability.

Part of my job includes patent analysis, non-patent literature analysis (scientific literature), data mining, insight generation, primary research, secondary research, market analysis, business analysis, report preparation, product development (dry lab), technology scouting, idea generation, and problem solving.