Are you looking for your next inspiring resource in Business Chemistry? Check out our top 10 Business Chemistry books of the summer—including some highly anticipated, forthcoming titles.

 

1.  Delivering Safety Excellence: Engagement Culture at Every Level

Michael M. Williamsen

Delivering Safety Excellence: Engagement Culture At Every Level provides an in-depth and practical overview of how to energize frontline employees, supervisors, managers, and leaders to overcome and solve regularly occurring safety concerns. The book teaches readers how to resolve dysfunctional safety cultures by engaging employees at all levels. This cross functional engagement culture regularly builds safe and effective working practices that eliminate regulatory, financial, and personal risk shortfalls while encouraging profitability and efficiency.

 

2.  How to Commercialize Chemical Technologies for a Sustainable Future

Timothy J. Clark, Andrew S. Pasternak

Lacking the considerable resources of multinational chemical companies, entrepreneurs face a unique set of risks and challenges. How to Commercialize Chemical Technologies for a Sustainable Future is targeted at innovators who are embarking on the entrepreneurial path with their sustainable chemical technology but are unsure of what steps to take. This first-of-its-kind resource features contributions from a diverse team of expert authors, including engineers, venture capitalists, marketing specialists, intellectual property professionals, regulatory experts, industry practitioners, and many others.

 

3.  Chemistry Entrepreneurship

Javier García-Martínez, Kunhao Li

Chemistry Entrepreneurship is a step-by-step guide that is specifically devoted to understanding what it takes to start and grow a new company in the chemistry sector. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers the various aspects of the creation of a new chemical enterprise including: the protection of the invention, the business plan, the transfer from the research center or university, the financing, the legal setup, the launching of the company and its growth and exit strategies. 

 

4.  Digital Transformation of the Laboratory: A Practical Guide to the Connected Lab

Klemen Zupancic, Tea Pavlek, Jana Erjavec

Digital Transformation of the Laboratory: A Practical Guide to the Connected Lab delivers essential and transformative new insights into current and future technologies and strategies for the digitization of laboratories. Thoroughly supported and backed-up with contributions from thought and industry leaders, the book shows scientists in academia and industry how to move from paper to digital in their own labs.

 

5.  Profit Maximization Techniques for Operating Chemical Plants

Sandip K. Lahiri

In the ongoing battle to reduce the cost of production and increase profit margin within the chemical process industry, leaders are searching for new ways to deploy profit optimization strategies. Profit Maximization Techniques for Operating Chemical Plants defines strategic planning and implementation techniques for managers, senior executives, and technical service consultants to help increase profit margins.

 

6.  Process Safety Leadership from the Boardroom to the Frontline

CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)

For leaders to fulfill their process safety responsibilities, they must demonstrate the same leadership attributes required for success in every other business area. This book discusses how leaders apply these attributes to drive strong process safety cultures and disciplined management systems. Based on benchmarking and broad industrial experience, this groundbreaking book begins by making the “Business Case for Process Safety,” showing the many ways process safety benefits the organization. It then describes essential behaviors and actions for leaders to drive excellence in process safety.

 

7.  Leadership by Engineers and Scientists: Professional Skills Needed to Succeed in a Changing World

Dennis W. Hess

This textbook introduces readers to open-ended problems focused on interactions between technical and nontechnical colleagues, bosses, and subordinates. It does this through mini case studies that illustrate scenarios where simple, clear, or exact solutions are not evident. By offering examples of dilemmas in technical leadership along with selected analyses of possible ways to address or consider such issues, aspiring or current leaders are made aware of the types of problems they may encounter. This situational approach also allows the development of methodologies to address these issues as well as future variations or new issues that may arise.

 

8.  Business Chemistry: How to Build and Sustain Thriving Businesses in the Chemical Industry

Jens Leker, Carsten Gelhard, Stephan von Delft

This title is a concise text aimed at chemists, other natural scientists, and engineers who want to develop essential management skills. Written in an accessible style with the needs of managers in mind, this book provides an introduction to essential management theory, models, and practical tools relevant to the chemical industry and associated branches such as pharmaceuticals and consumer goods. Drawing on first-hand management experience and in-depth research projects, the authors of this book outline the key topics to build and sustain businesses in the chemical industry. The book addresses important topics such as strategy and new business development, describes global trends that shape chemical companies, and looks at recent issues such as business model innovation.

 

9.  Patent Strategy: For Researchers and Research Managers, 3rd Edition

H. Jackson Knight

Patent Strategy introduces researchers to patent applications and patent portfolios. With minimum use of ‘legal jargon,’ it provides the technical professional with the assistance and advice they require to understand the legal complexities that they may encounter before and during a patent application. It also discusses the responsibilities of the researcher after patent applications have been filed and the role the researcher can play in the maintenance of a global patent estate.

 

10.  Data Science: The Executive Summary - A Technical Book for Non-Technical Professionals

Field Cady

Data Science: The Executive Summary – A Technical Book for Non-Technical Professionals is a comprehensive resource for people in non-engineer roles who want to fully understand data science and analytics concepts. Accomplished data scientist and author Field Cady describes both the “business side” of data science, including what problems it solves and how it fits into an organization, and the technical side, including analytical techniques and key technologies.

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