New venture groups

An alternative to carrying out the more speculative business orientated research within the Corporate R D is to set up new business venture groups. 

Income from Salable Products. This covers the sale of the by-products as well as the principal productfs), which is primarily monitored by the market and sales group. The interrelationships among selling price, market demand and supply, production capacity, and investment return require careful economic analysis. In many cases, particularly new ventures, this can only be detei mined by a profitability analysis, e.g.,... 

Assistance will be provided in making decisions, but will be very specific with references in the open patent literature. It should be apparent in this problem statement of this most timely process study that I must be careful not to release proprietary information which is contained in a very recent patent application for which I am one of the inventors. The results of this comparison of the Texaco process, as devised by your group, with the ARCO process is typical of an exercise that all companies must undertake to analyze the economic viability of all new ventures. 

The examples addressed thus far adequately convey the utility of the SAE reaction as a tool for the reagent-control strategy. Nonetheless, the power of the SAE reaction and the capabilities of the new reagent-control strategy are demonstrated even more forcefully in the total synthesis of all eight L-hexoses (compounds 1-8) by the groups of Masamune and Sharpless.11 The remainder of this chapter is devoted to this elegant joint venture. 

After evidence of the formation of unnilpentium in 1970 by the Berkeley team, the American Chemical Society (ACS) changed the name Unp to hahnium. To settle the confusing claims, the lUPAC recommended that scientists from the Russian and Berkeley groups get together to review and confirm conflicting data. This cooperative venture was never implemented. In 1997 the lUPAC decided to change the name hahnium (j Ha) to dubnium ( jj Db) after the location of the Russian nuclear research lab that first produced the new element. Dubnium is the name by which it is known by today. 

BASF Future Businesses has 12 people who place research contracts with one or more of the existing R D units. This group of people are responsible for cooperating with start-up businesses, working with industry partners, potential customers and building relationships with relevant universities. A subsidiary BASF Venture Capital can invest capital in start-ups to pump prime new developments. 

DSM s Venturing Business Development group continuously scans the horizon for innovative ideas outside the company in which we can invest, enabling us to access and make the best possible use of new technological developments and resources (2004). ... 

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