This unique book presents real world success stories of collaboration between mathematicians
and industrial partners showcasing first-hand case studies and lessons learned from the
experiences technologies and business challenges that led to the successful development of
industrial solutions based on mathematics. It shows the crucial contribution of mathematics to
innovation and to the industrial creation of value and the key position of mathematics in the
handling of complex systems amplifying innovation. Each story describes the challenge that led
to the industrial cooperation how the challenge was approached and how the solutions were
achieved and implemented. When brought together they illustrate the versatile European
landscape of projects in almost all areas of applied mathematics and across all business
sectors. This book of success stories has its origin in the Forward Look about Mathematics and
Industry that was funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) and coordinated by the
Applied Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). In each of these
success stories researchers students entrepreneurs policy makers and business leaders in a
range of disciplines will find valuable material and important lessons that can be applied in
their own fields.
