Dow partners with universities around the world and has developed many strategic relationships for recruiting and for research. We engage at every level from undergraduate to graduate to post-graduate to faculty, and through all available mechanisms. Internships, grants, sponsored research, scientist exchanges, student challenges, invited talks, symposia, continuing education, and seminars are the most common examples.
A substantial aspect of our university partnerships is through collaborative research projects. These collaborations are vital to our innovation and talent pipeline. As such, projects are chosen to have a strong alignment with long-term business objectives that have a clear path to value creation, as well as a clear technical hypothesis and scope of work that is well-suited for university research.
Our current strategic themes center on:
- The development of materials that are sustainable as measured through thorough life cycle assessments
- Process research to minimize the environmental footprint of the chemical process industries by maximizing both energy and material efficiency
- The digitalization of information and application of advanced computational methods for faster decision making in research, operations, and logistics
- New hybrid chemistries to develop novel materials with enhanced properties and performance