Innovation lies at the very heart of DSM’s vision and strategy.
    

We don’t pursue innovation for its own sake: we do it so that we can create products and services that help improve the quality of life.

At DSM, we realize only too well that innovation takes more than a great idea or great technology or high-tech labs. Innovation involves:

• Tracking market trends and spotting opportunities that allow us to use our capabilities and expertise to improve the quality of people's lives in ways that are also commercially attractive for us and our customers.
• Interacting with the extensive external know-how infrastructure-partners in universities, other scientific research institutes and industry – to make sure we are active at the forefront of today's most promising developments.
• Following up and developing precisely those ideas that enable us to make best use of synergies within the company.
• Commercializing the resulting innovations with DSM business groups, or, if appropriate, externally.

Innovation at DSM therefore also means:

• Seeking out partners with promising new innovations in our fields of activity.
• Giving them the financial, technological, manufacturing and management support they need to exploit those innovations to the full.
• Ultimately, where appropriate, integrating those innovations with our own activities to our mutual benefit, and the benefit of society in general.