Dispersions & Resins
Dr. Alice Glättli
Senior Vice President, Digitalization, Automation, and Innovation Management (RGQ), Central Research at BASF
How BASF drives Innovation through Digitalization and External Collaboration
Chemistry-based innovation is essential to address global challenges such as promoting a circular economy and achieving a low-carbon future. This requires new approaches to innovation that leverage digital technologies, value chain collaboration and ecosystems.
At BASF, our innovation success is driven by highly skilled scientists, digitalization and a broad external collaboration network, including top universities and research institutes. We actively integrate cutting-edge digitalization methods such as scientific modeling, data science, AI and machine learning into our R&D workflows to increase efficiency and effectiveness and to stimulate creativity. Through academic research alliances, we bring together the best scientific resources from industry and academia to collaborate on new solutions and concepts for a more sustainable future.