Can corporate innovation champions survive?

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Corporate innovation and its champions are discussed by a principal in a consulting firm, a person responsible for developing/implementing a center for creativity/innovation and a researcher at Eastman Chemical. Survival or lack thereof is the focus. Most of the corporate innovation programs discussed started in the first half of the 1980s, when the chemical industry was at a low in the economic cycle with many commodity-based companies seeing lack of opportunity in existing business areas. The Association for Managers of Innovation is discussed. Myers-Briggs type indicator categories are given as is the Kirton KAI (Kirton Adaption-Innovation) inventory tool.

United Kingdom, Reports, Practice, Management research, Association for Managers of Innovation

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The emerging technology trajectory

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New biotechnology tools make it possible for entrepreneurial companies to go through R&D more quickly, spending less, and so lowering entry barriers. Convergence is the main change agent disrupting patterns of the chemical industry. For chemical firms this changes things. Topics include convergence, innovation and industry structure taking in new biotechnology firms, new platforms, knowledge-based drug discovery, networks, reduced risk, combinatorial drug discovery, new tools, and genetically driven convergence. Tables list companies with partners and technology focus and list companies with biotech patent number for the years 1995-96, '97, '98, '99 and 2000.

Biochemistry, Licensing agreements, Pharmaceutical research, Genomics

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Formulating a synthetic perfume - rapidly

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Formulating a synthetic perfume based on jasmine perfume components is discussed by staff of MediChem Research. The art of perfumery can be time-consuming to practice, but automated process research technology puts together automated synthesis equipment and statistical design of experiments for a much speedier optimization of reaction conditions. In chemical scaleup, chromatography, materials science, purification and optimization of personal care and consumer products this can be very useful.

Planning, Product development, Toiletries, Technology application, Manufacturing processes, Manufacturing, Perfumes, Production engineering, Experimental design, Research design

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