Innovation
Program Manager: Hyungsub Choi
Program Coordinator: Chi Chan

By offering insights on areas of near-term interest to industrial research managers and strategic analysis of innovation management, the Center for Contemporary History and Policy bridges theory and practice in the study of innovation.

The center's annual Innovation Day, organized in collaboration with the Society of Chemical Industry, brings together chief technology officers and young industrial scientists from across the chemicals sector to discuss key topics, including

• Energy
• Feedstocks
• The Environment
• Electronics
• Health Materials
• Nanomaterials

A second initiative provides for the creation of case studies of recent innovations. Based on interviews and other research, the case studies explore how chemical companies have translated new ideas into marketable products over the past two decades.

Recent conference
Innovation Day 2007

Related publications
Innovation Frontiers in Industrial Chemistry: A Report on the Third Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day

Innovation Frontiers in Industrial Chemistry: A Report on the Second Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day

Innovation Frontiers in Industrial Chemistry: A Report on the First Annual CHF-SCI Innovation Day

R&D Meets M&A: Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Chemical R&D