Evonik Industries is one of the world's leading specialty chemical companies and offers innovative solutions for health, nutrition and resource efficiency markets. Reza Ghahary is with the Cororate Innovation unit and is currently responsible for several “unusual innovation partnerships” between Evonik and selected companies, which are mainly not inside the traditional chemical industry. These are mostly key market players with high potentials for co-innovation in diverse value chains. This exchange also enables to gain additional market insights across different industries and to identify future business fields.  With the focus on chemistry, innovation management and new business, Reza has been running industrial projects in different functions since 24 years, including fields such as business intelligence, strategic foresight and partnerships. He believes that co-creation with partners is one of the pillars for profit and growth in companies.