{"id":2126,"date":"2015-02-27T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/knowledge\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:57:09","slug":"customer-requirements-feed-german-industrial-innovation-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/2126\/customer-requirements-feed-german-industrial-innovation-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Requirements Feed German Industrial Innovation &#8211; Infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study commissioned by ALTANA, a specialty chemicals company, managers at top German industrial enterprises place a high importance on innovation as a key factor in the success of their companies.The infographic below\u00a0shows that innovation efforts have been strongly focused on meeting customer needs, with 55% of the 250 managers and 250 entry-level employees from various industrial companies surveyed in agreement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/media\/2015\/02\/Altana_IndustryInnovationIndex20151.jpg\" alt=\"Altana_IndustryInnovationIndex2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Altana_IndustryInnovationIndex20151.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Altana_IndustryInnovationIndex20151-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><strong>Key results of the 2015 Industry Innovation Index, carried out by market researcher Forsa-Institut, are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One-third of companies plan to spend more on innovation efforts in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>30% of managers surveyed have a high level of interest and willingness to invest in R&amp;D.<\/li>\n<li>One-third of the companies in the study give employees the ability to suggest innovation ideas and their good ideas are rewarded monetarily by 78% of companies.<\/li>\n<li>32% of the companies will make a greater investment in innovation projects in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While enterprises are focusing resources on innovation, the effects of these efforts have not yet materialized.\u00a0Dr. Georg F. L. Wie\u00dfmeier, ALTANA&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer, explains, &#8220;an enterprise culture can&#8217;t be turned around in just a year, and such a change doesn&#8217;t lead directly to new products either. Many important parameter adjustments for innovation initially have an internal effect before manifesting outwardly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<p>ALTANA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altana.fr\/press-news\/press-news.html?no_cache=1&amp;newsID=3300\" target=\"_blank\">Customer is King \u2013 Enterprises Intensify Innovation Efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>View ALTANA&#8217;s listings by division in Prospector:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>BYK<\/strong><br \/>\nCoatings\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/eu\/Coatings\/Suppliers\/103\/Byk\/search?sug=1&amp;st=31\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/na\/Coatings\/Suppliers\/104\/Byk\/search?sug=1&amp;st=31\" target=\"_blank\">North America<\/a>)<br \/>\nPersonal Care\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/eu\/PersonalCare\/Suppliers\/1623\/Byk-Chemie\/search?sug=1&amp;st=31\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/materials.ulprospector.com\/ResultAJAX.aspx?A=RESET&amp;CK=69768\" target=\"_blank\">Plastics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eckart<\/strong><br \/>\nPersonal Care\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/eu\/PersonalCare\/Suppliers\/1094\/Eckart-Effect-Pigments\/search?sug=1&amp;st=31\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/en\/na\/PersonalCare\/Suppliers\/1091\/Eckart-America\/search?sug=1&amp;st=31\" target=\"_blank\">North America<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent study commissioned by ALTANA, a specialty chemicals company, managers at top German industrial enterprises place a high importance on innovation as a key factor in the success of their companies.The infographic below\u00a0shows that innovation efforts have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/2126\/customer-requirements-feed-german-industrial-innovation-infographic\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,9,15],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1237],"class_list":{"0":"post-2126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-paint-coatings-news","7":"category-personal-care-cosmetics-cleaners-news-events","8":"category-plastics","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Customer Requirements Feed German Industrial Innovation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"German managers are putting more resources into innovation in 2015. 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