The world requires novel products and their processes to increase human health, to reduce the burden on the environment, and to increase prosperity, particularly in deprived areas, as defined in the United Nations Global Grand Challenges and subscribed to in a declaration by the presidents of the World Congress Chemical Engineering (WCCE), the European Federation of Chemical Engineers, the European Society of Bioengineering, the IACChE, and the APCChe, at the WCCE10 in Barcelona, during October 1-5, 2017 [1]. These combined requirements create a need for radical innovation of products and their processes that, once identified by companies, initiates projects to generate novel products and technologies and successfully implement them in the market. Moreover, the innovation projects must be effective (fulfilling a need) and efficient, meaning that the novel product and/or technology require minimal resources, are competitive in the markets and that the innovation project is carried out with minimal effort, time, and cost.
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