White Papers
Staff and fellows in CHF's Center for Contemporary History and Policy regularly publish white papers that highlight ongoing research projects and related conferences and workshops.
Studies in Materials Innovation
Part of the Robert W. Gore Materials Innovation Project, this series aims to illuminate the diverse contributions of materials innovation within the broader process of contemporary technological development.
Studies in Sustainability
The Studies in Sustainability series serves as a forum for discussion of the challenges and opportunities that exist in transforming chemistry into a tool for sustainability. White papers in the series highlight the intersecting roles played by emerging science, innovation, regulation, and civil action..
Innovation Day
CHF's annual Innovation Day conference brings young innovators and industry leaders together to celebrate innovation in the chemical industry today and seek solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. Each year a summary of the conference proceedings is published as a white paper.
This case study focuses on one of the earliest company's to produce “natural” household-cleaning products, Sun & Earth, and places the company in the context of the larger phenomenon of the so-called green economy.
This case study illuminates the evolution of business strategies of the second generation of biotech firms, analyzes the reconfiguration of biotech firms’ strategic alliances
Product innovation in the chemicals sector today requires not just scientific and technological advances but also compliance with standards and regulations, along with marketing to sophisticated intermediate firms and end users. Yet the very novelty of new materials often means that product standards, health and safety regulations, and consumer markets are underdeveloped or absent.
This case study discusses how the development of Sea-Nine marine anti-fouling paint linked agricultural biocides, coatings research, and federal and international regulation.
This case study focuses on one of the earliest company's to produce “natural” household-cleaning products, Sun & Earth, and places the company in the context of the larger phenomenon of the so-called green economy.
This case study examines the innovation of the first “chemically amplified photoresists” by IBM in the 1980s. The case supports four findings with implications for our understanding of the nature of innovation.
This paper investigates the performance of community advisory panels (CAPs) and highlights potential sources of public discontent with the dialogues, drawing on observations of CAP meetings in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, in the heart of the state’s Mississippi River Industrial Corridor.
This paper follows on the 2007 Gordon Cain Conference, “New Chemical Bodies: Biomonitoring, Body Burden, and the Uncertain Threat of Endocrine Disruptors” held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in March 2007.
Includes summaries of panels from Innovation Day 2008: Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering; Electronic Materials; Chemistry of Energy Sources; Health Materials; and Emerging Global Economies, and Appendix I: Mapping the Future of Science and Innovation.
An introduction and summaries of panels from Innovation Day 2007: Eco-Friendly Products; Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering; Chemistry of Energy Sources; Health Materials; Electronic Materials; Emerging Global Economies.
An introduction and summaries of panels from Innovation Day 2006: Competition meets Cooperation; Frontier Areas for Industrial Chemistry; Collaborative Open Innovation.
An introduction and summaries of panels from Innovation Day 2005: Feedstocks of the Future; Nanomaterials; Electronic Chemicals; Chemistry of Energy Sources; Environmental Chemistry; Innovating for a Geographically Shifting Value Chain.
An introduction and summaries of panels from Innovation Day 2004: Future Energy Sources; Health Materials; Bioindustrial Technologies; Green Chemistry; Nanomaterials; Photonics and Optoelectronics.