(59b) Innovating Innovation Processes for Chemical R&D By Treating As Metaphorical Chemical Processes
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2018
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
Process Development Division
Advances in Product/Process Design & Development I
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 - 8:22am to 8:44am
Both industrial and academic research produce innovations that can be used to add value to products and services. Many labs seek ways to produce innovations that 1) have higher value, 2) are faster to market, and 3) are produced as a consistent stream. We have found that by treating the innovation process itself like a chemical process, the flowrate of valuable innovations can be increased. In this talk we analyze the innovation process according to streams (e.g., desired outputs, inputs, recycles, purges) and unit operations (e.g., idea generation âreactorsâ and idea evaluation âseparatorsâ). This perspective enables the analysis and measurement of R&D, providing a coherent philosophy for innovation processes.