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During the twentieth century the chemical and process industry was one of the greatest contributors to improving mankind s quality of life. This contribution arose from the application of chemical engineering to manufacturing products on a wholly new scale. It involved both academic and industrial practitioners in the development of the discipline, which acquired a coherence suited to this period, based initially on the unit operations approach pioneered at MIT. The major achievement of the discipline was in the development of economic and safe processing of materials in bulk, often based on petroleum feedstocks. 

CEOs, government officials, academic, and community leaders around the world are all counting on innovation to be the fundamental driver of economic opportunity, job creation, business competitiveness and advances in education, health care, and a vast range of other disciplines. Investing in innovation, they say, is the surest way to survive and thrive in today s complex, connected world. 

Springer Complexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects of complex systems -cutting across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, economics, medicine, neuroscience, social and computer science. 

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