Description: 1: A New Technology for the 20th Century.- High Pressure Industrial Chemistry: The First Steps, 1909-1913, and the Impact.- 2: The Impact and Burden of World War I.- Chemistry for King and Kaiser: Revisiting Chemical Enterprise and the European War.- "Productive Collateral" or "Economic Sense?": BASF under French Occupation, 1919-1923.- 3: Science and Industry.- Basic Research in Industry: Two Case Studies at I.G. Farbenindustrie AG in the 1920s and 1930s.- Ambros, Reppe, and the Emergence of Heavy Organic Chemicals in Germany, 1925-1945.- The Development of Chemical Industry in Sweden and the Contribution of Academic Chemistry after 1900.- Selling Science: Dutch Debates on the Industrial Significance of University Chemistry, 1903-1932.- 4: Different Routes to Competitive Advantages.- Modernizing Industrial Organic Chemistry: Great Britain between Two World Wars.- Scaling Up: The Evolution of Intellectual Apparatus Associated with the Manufacture of Heavy Chemicals in Britain, 1900-1939.- The Use of Measuring and Controlling Instruments in the Chemical Industry in Great Britain and the USA during the Period 1900-1939.- Norwegian Capitalists and the Fertiliser Business: The Case of Hafslund and the Odda Process.- The Swiss Pharmaceutical Industry: The Impact of Industrial Property Rights and Trust in the Laboratory, 1907-1939.- 5: State Intervention and Industrial Autarky.- Technical Change in the Italian Chemical Industry: Markets, Firms and State Intervention.- The Frustrated Rise of Spanish Chemical Industry between the Wars.- The Take-Off Phase of Danish Chemical Industry, ca. 1910-1940.- Neglected Potential? The Emergence of the Finnish Chemical Industry, 1900-1939.- Contributors.- Abbreviations.

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