Quotes from Participants

“... [the roadmapping workshop] has led to a continuing dialogue with many of the participants on issues that are of both short and long term importance. As we go forward, I expect that these associations will also lay the groundwork for the establishment of design and simulation standards that currently are largely lacking in the field.”

David H. Klipstein
President & CEO of Reaction Design and Chair
Reaction Engineering Roadmap Group

“My company has benefited from Vision2020 because of the way it provides a platform for industry-led consortium research to develop new and improved tools for engineering simulations ...

The benefits to industry extend well beyond the immediate results of the research. It has brought together the best scientists from the public sector with the toughest problems from industry, and provided focus for a variety of efforts that were otherwise uncoordinated and largely un-communicated with potential end-users.”

Tyler B. Thompson, Ph.D.
Research Partnership Leader
The Dow Chemical Company

“Vision2020 has helped Praxair to form collaborative technology relationships with other companies with similar research interests. We have been able to connect with technology partners who are doing similar long term, exploratory R&D and form collaborations, which have allowed this work to proceed more rapidly and successfully ...

Vision2020 has helped to act as a focal point for companies interested in similar technology to join forces.”

Roger Day
Associate Director, Applications Research and Development
Praxair, Inc.