Value Creation (Strategies for the Chemical Industry) || Systematically Revitalizing Innovation in the Chemical Industry

✍ Scribed by Budde, Florian; Felcht, Utz-Hellmuth; Frankemölle, Heiner

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 470 KB
• Edition: 2
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3527312668
• DOI: 10.1002/9783527612246.ch13

✦ Synopsis

Over the past century and a half, the chemical industry has changed the face of the world by applying boundless ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit to solving many of the problems vexing humankind. With highly innovative product ideas from plastics to fertilizers, from textile dyes to explosives and medicines, chemistry transformed itself from alchemy into a value-capturing industry creating products with a high relevance for society. Chemistry as a discipline has continued to be a driver of innovation for many companies in the last decade (Fig. .1).