Industrial innovation

Felcht reports on Degussa s activities in cooperation with partners from academia and industry to develop innovative industrial-scale micro-structured reactors for making large-tonnage products by liquid- and gas-phase reactions [137]. The aim is to make the potential of micro reactors more widely available for a larger variety of processes, naturally with focus on Degussa s fine and specialty chemical productions. Also, the aim is to circumvent traditional problems of scale-up. 

Acknowledgment The research described herein was supported by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR), Australia and Department of Science and Technology (DST), India. 

H. Greenblatt, Catalysts An Innovative Industry Responds to Technological and Competitive Challenges 24-44 (US International Trade Commission, Publication 3602, Washington, DC, 2003). 

Britain contributed technical innovation, industrial and financial power, and military manpower to the Allied victory. Hydrophones, tanks and aircraft are obvious examples of new weapons, and hardly suggest industrial backwardness or military conservatism. However, innovation with traditional weapons was no less important. New scientific artillery techniques made a bigger contribution to the defeat of the German army in 1918 than the more publicised tank. Even new weapons depended upon tactical innovation to be effective. The army s success was possible only when the different arms - artillery, infantry, tanks (when available) and aircraft - had learned to operate together. The navy s success over the U-boat required the adoption of the convoy system as well as the development of hydrophones. 

Verona, G. and D. Ravasi. 2003. Unbundling Dynamic Capabilities An Exploratory Study of Continuous Product Innovation. Industrial and Corporate Change 12 577-606. 

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The basic purpose of the patent system is to provide incentives for innovation, industrial development and industrial investment. A patent entitles its owner to exclude others from the commercial exploitation of the patented invention for a limited time. In exchange for this temporary monopoly the public receives an accurate and detailed description of the invention, which makes the knowledge available to the public at an early point of time and, after the patent has expired, enables others to exploit the invention. 

The electronic equipment and systems technology available for process control continues to evolve rapidly. Because of the pace of innovation, industry-wide standards have not been able to keep up consequently different manufacturers systems usually use proprietary technology and are often not fully compatible with each other. The implementation of the ISA SP50 Fieldbus standard is expected to substantially... 

The Application Of A Task-Based Concept For The Design Of Innovative Industrial Crystallizers... 

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The capability to controllably engineer discrete nanoscale particulate domains in a material is a powerful tool for accessing new and unique material properties that enable innovative industrial applications. It is expected that research and development work on nanomaterials will continue to increase and numerous new applications will be identified. 

One of the most innovative industrial uses of reverse osmosis is at the Petromin Refinery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The refinery takes an unusable municipal wastewater, secondary effluent from the Riyadh sewage treatment plant, and by using lime clarification, filtration, reverse osmosis and ion exchange demineralization, it converts that useless waste into the entire process water requirements for the refinery. Figure 4.16 is the process flow schematic for the refinery water treatment plant. 

To encourage innovation, industry must now re-discover the fact that any innovation starts with a dream, eind only people have dreams. It must accomodate to the individual in its organization planning, and allow some of those dreams to materialize. 

Some hopes were raised last year when President Carter requested a Cabinet-Level Coordinating Committee to undertake a Domestic Policy Review of Industrial Innovation. Industry, labor, and public Interest groups participated In Task Forces charged with developing recommendations for public policies to stimulate Innovation. These were presented nine months ago and since then federal agencies have debated their merits and have brought their own recommendations forward. The action now... 

J.-C. Charpentier, Modem chemical engineering in the framework of globalization, sustainability, and technical innovation, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2007, 46(11), 3465-3485. 

This branch appeared to be especially suitable for Ulbricht s vision to develop the GDR into the high technology country of the Eastern Bloc. His economic policies aimed, therefore, at the development of innovative industries, among others aircraft construction and mechanical engineering. The decision to develop the aircraft industry was made in 1952/ 54, that to develop nuclear energy plants in the mid 1950s, and that to focus on the chemical industry in 1958. " The products of those branches were supposed to be used for trade in the Eastern Bloc in exchange for raw materials (fuel, iron ore, wood, and so on) and food. 

West, J. and Lakhani, K. R. (2008), "Getting clear about communities in open innovation," Industry and Innovation, 15 (2), 223-31. 

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