caa a22 4500 606169385 CHVBK 20210128100711.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10098-015-0928-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10098-015-0928-7 Helling Richard The Dow Chemical Company, 48674, Midland, MI, USA aut Driving innovation through life-cycle thinking [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Helling] The concept of sustainability is critical for businesses and individuals to understand and apply. Although there are many ways to define sustainability, at The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) we say that sustainability requires making every decision with the future in mind. Sustainable innovation is driven by a clear corporate strategy, global accountability to goals, and a variety of tools to track and improve business performance. The ability to articulate aspirational goals for some areas and quantitative measurements for others is critical. Individual awareness of the four themes of sustainable chemistry and engineering (atom economy, energy efficiency, reduced hazard, and holistic design) is a firm foundation for sustainable innovation. The Dow Chemical Sustainability Footprint Tool©, life-cycle assessment, and a product-based Sustainable Chemistry Index are very useful in positioning and quantifying sustainability as a target for innovation—and a source of business growth. The development, application, and use of these tools in Dow are described. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/7(2015-10-01), 1769-1779 1618-954X 17:7<1769 2015 17 10098 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0928-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-015-0928-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Helling Richard The Dow Chemical Company, 48674, Midland, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/7(2015-10-01), 1769-1779 1618-954X 17:7<1769 2015 17 10098