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opens up for collaboration kt consortium is an industry-academ- ia collaboration that offers networking opportunities, state-of-the-art methods, and tools to its members in the chem- ical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, food and biochemical industries. ?kt is short for kemiteknik, the danish version of our name,? kim dam- johansen explained at the opening of the very first kt consortium annual meeting at dtu on 28 october 2016. ?e consortium will continue to de- velop generic methods and tools using computer aided systems approach to solve and analyse problems related to product-process modelling, simulation, synthesis, design, analysis, control, and operation in collaboration with the member companies. yet, these services are going to be broadened in the future according to kim dam-johansen. ??e name is new, so are the future perspectives. although the consortium originally was established in 1997, this is not a case of old wine in a new bottle,? says kim dam johansen about the recent developments. ?in the future, research
from all our six research centres will be included and more industrial partners from both small, medium and large enterprises from all over the world will be invited to join. my hope is that this broader mix of knowledge and experience will strengthen our ability to deliver directly applicable research that solve the future challenges of our global society,? he explains. going far for innovation present at the kt consortium annual meeting was graduate programme lead, manufacturing at glaxosmith- kline, dr conchita jimenez-gonzalez. coming all the way from the us, there must be some good reasons to join the annual meetings according to dr jime- nez-gonzalez, who has been a frequent visitor since 2003 when glaxo- smithkline became a member. ?always before i come here, i do a good amount of research and i always find good things on the agenda,? says dr jimenez-gonzalez and continues, ?i like that i get updated on developments in the research arena. i like the opportunity to be in some projects. and now that i?m leading the graduate programme in my company, i?ve brought six of my uk grad- uates to this meeting. i?m really interested in hopefully providing them with a view of the world of research besides what we do at the company, because i do believe that the more people are exposed to different research, the better their work is and the more innovative their thoughts become?. as programme lead, conchita jimenez-gonzalez believes a good chem- ical engineer is a problem solving profes- sional that is really good at thinking in networks, because nothing happens in isolation. ?it might be that there is a tool that we can?t use right away in the company, but it might spark another idea of something else that we can use. ?at?s always, i think, how innovation works, it?s not just somebody sitting alone in a room. it?s the cross-pollination of ideas,? says conchita jimenez-gonzalez. open for new members ?e kt consortium is open for new company members. read about the new consortium, services and how to apply for membership on the website www.kt.dtu.dk/research/kt-consortium. kt consortium ?
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