Chemistry Innovation Modern chemical innovation, and pharmaceutical research in particular is confounded by the nearly infinite spectrum of structural tweaking sustainable by the target molecule -- given the atomic count of today's drugs. Activities sometimes change gradually with structural modifications, and mostly change drastically. Transport phenomena, kinetics, competing reactions -- the complexity is enormous. Research guided by evolved intuition is productive only to the extent that the present case is a linear extension of past experience. The innovation pathway is an inefficient zig-zag at best, and a go nowhere spiral at the quite common worst. Enter InnovationSP. Its underlying principle is that given a pharmaceutical R&D challenge, C, one should seek a derived challenge C' such that the effort to resolve C' e(C') plus the effort to resolve the given challenge C, having resolved C' e(C|C') is less than the effort to resolve C otherwise. This simple principle may be iterative applied, and chart an innovation roadmap on which an efficient innovations pathway is clearly marked. Innovation is regimented, clarified, accelerated, and well measured. Indeed, InnovationSP is a brand new tool you should be curious about, and check it out, not to fall behind your competitors. And now you have an easy opportunity to doing so: The American chemical society offers a package: Beaker to barrel I and II. Webcasts, five online meetings, 1.5hr each, a comprehensive innovation guide for the research chemist, taking the comprehensive view from beaker-to-barrel, as opposed to from beaker to bench-top documentation report. It's refreshing and insightful to look into innovation generically, and apply universal principles to clarify and accelerate your own research.
		Online Chemical Innovation Course Starts on April 6, 2011! On Demand! Pre-Recorded Lectures by Prof. G. Samid (Details? Ask Nancy )