 | At Clariant, research and development is decentralized and carried out in the businesses, which prioritize projects on the basis of market requirements and the prospects of success, and assume full responsibility for their implementation.
This proximity to their markets enables the divisions to translate market potential and customer requirements into commercial products and services efficiently and with a fast pace of innovation. Finally, systematic and extensive patent protection affords the results long-term protection against third parties.
With cross-divisional excellence teams, the group function technology explores additional potential for innovation, with efficient processes shortening the innovation cycles. This function is also tasked with bringing in external research skills through cooperation arrangements and developing new business areas and technology platforms for Clariant. |