We’ve been conditioned to equate tech innovation with images of lone inventors or startups housed in garages or incubators, not a company with 53,000 people spread across 17 businesses in 35 countries and a 118-year history. Yet the latter are resources that enable Dow to innovate competitive advantage, and how it does it is a contrarian argument on the merits of being big.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2015/11/11/dow-innovation-proves-merits-of-being-big/