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When talking about innovation, the environment in which scientists and corporations operate is a crucial factor. Innovations are often generated in strong ecosystems with complementary resources. The increasing interest of companies in topics such as, for example, opening up corporate culture to external impulses, exchanging with suppliers and/or customers, or assessing employee competency to promote […]
Although no reason to celebrate, the pandemic’s influence cannot be denied and does not leave the chemical and related industries untouched. The pandemic also influenced the topics addressed in the first Journal of Business Chemistry issue 2021, albeit in different ways: The fifth session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) set to discuss […]
1 Introduction Since the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) was installed in 2005, the operators of more than 11,000 emissions-intensive plants, including many in the chemical industry, have had to buy so-called emissions allowances for the release of their emissions. A central control instrument of the trading system is that the number of allowances is […]
Abstract As an international effort to improve practices worldwide, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is an overarching policy framework intended to complement existing agreements within the global chemicals sector by serving as a platform for the engagement of a wide variety of stakeholders. This work identifies SAICM as a transnational public-private partnership […]
Abstract The rapid development of the internet as well as the emergence of new technologies such as smart devices leads to an exponential growth of data that hold useful information for companies. To face this trend new methods were developed, which allow to analyze large amounts of data in short time. This enables to investigate […]
Abstract Owing to ever shorter innovation cycles, it has become more and more challenging to predict approaching market convergence. This study aims to overcome this problem by providing a novel method for anticipating market onvergence using start-up formation as an indicator. Life cycle analysis is employed in this article to examine the anticipation of the […]