Best of Both Worlds: how academia and industry can create more fruitful academia-industry partnerships

In the fight against climate change, catalyst technologies will play a significant role in addressing issues such as healthcare inequality, sustainable transportation and food security.

The chemical and pharmaceutical industries develop and manufacture essential products that are crucial in combating disease and improving human health. However, they are also major users of scarce resources, such as water and energy, and often utilize hazardous chemicals. Creating truly sustainable and practical solutions to these challenges will require innovative thinking, to link novel chemistries with a detailed understanding of global needs.

In Chemistry World’s Problem Solvers supplement, Christophe Le Ret, Global Marketing Director here at Umicore PMC recently discussed how we’re applying our philosophy of collaborative development alongside our portfolio of innovative catalyst technologies to meet this demand. 

In this article, Christophe also highlights Umicore’s 2030 RISE strategy – the approach to leveraging our proven leadership in clean mobility materials and recycling to tackle powerful global megatrends, which include: 

●        Mobility transformation 

●        The growing need for advanced materials and chemicals

●        Circularity for critical metals

To learn more about how catalysis innovations can support sustainability efforts, read the full Chemistry World article here.