Development tools, innovation process

From the very beginning, continuous reactor concepts, an alternative to the truly microfabricated reactors, were used, for example, static meso-scaled mixers or HPLCs and other smart tubing (see Iwasaki et al. 2006 for an example). This completed functionality by filling niches not yet covered by microfabricated reactors or even by replacing the latter as a more robust, more easily accessed or more inexpensive processing tool. Further innovative equipment, coming from related developments in the process intensification field, is another source e.g., structured packings such as fleeces, foams, or monoliths. 

To overcome health and environmental problems at the source, the chemical industry must develop cleaner chemical processes by the design of innovative and environmentally benign chemical reactions. Green chemistry offers the tools for this approach. ... 

Development of new process analytical tools - including sensors and data analysis -continues. Developments tend to grow out of necessity to solve a particular problem and arise from collaborative innovation between analytical chemists (in industry and academia) and industrial scientists and process engineers. Industrial scientists and engineers can... 

The innovation process is a tool to help us develop sound concepts into profitable business opportunities. The process methodology offers a number of advantages ... 

R + D + i Activities. The management process of research, development and innovation begins with the application of tools as technology watch, technology foresight, creativity, and internal and external analysis. These techniques allow to identify problems and opportunities by analyzing the... 

For the assessing known and novel microbes, high-throughput culturing and screening tools are now available. These developments in information, tools, and attitudes have the prospective to speed up the development of innovative, capable, environmentally responsible, and economically feasible fermentations processes for the production of organic acids. 

As much as it is a key in achieving economic objectives, catalysis is also a powerful tool in realizing the goals of green chemistry. Innovation in the field of catalysis is driven by both profit motives and efforts to make more eco-efficient processes. Most often profits are markedly improved with the development of green processes. An important concept of green chemistry that can be addressed by the use of catalysis is atom-efficiency, also known as atom-economy. 

On the other hand, this lack of synthetic application clearly points out that further improvements are required to achieve enantioselective proton transfer with a broad substrate scope and high enantiomeric excess. The development of such kinds of catalytic system remains as a holy grail, and the synthetic chemist will probably continue to pay attention and focus his or her creativity. Indeed, in flie future, to address these main issues, organic chemists are expected to develop new creative and innovative processes to transform enantioselective protonation from an emerging tool into a major method toward the formation of tertiary chiral carbon centers. 

Innovation - advocates and opponents origin from microtechnology list of microfabrication techniques selectivity and efficiency as main driver for industrial implementation special properties and general advantages of micro reactors process-development issues BASF investigations on liquid/liquid and gas-phase reactions micro reactors as ideal measuring tools production in micro reactors as exception, the rule will be transfer to mm-sized channels [111],... 

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