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PrefaceInnovation is derived from a close interaction between basic research and industry. the most recent pharmaceutical successes based on molecular biological research provide examples of this. Innovation demands that researches learn about the developmental process, safety evaluation, production, and economics without downgrading their curiositydriven research skills. This is an arduous task, but rewarding intellectually and perhaps also financially. The main aim of our research proactiveness and this workshop is to encourage contact between such curiosity-driven researchers from academia and product-driven research and development. The result is, hopefully, an identification of frontier science and the means for its application in the field of the interaction between adjuvants, agrochemicals, and target organisms.On reflection, there are many schools of thought on how to pursue the optimization of an agrochemical formulation, or to find the best adjuvant or adjuvant mixture to maximize the biological potential of an agrochemical against the specified target. There are, however, two extremes which must be reconciled. The first is the empirical approach. This is a costly method, formerly very much "spray" and "pray" or "spray" and "weigh", which in the past has predominated within the industry. The other is the purely rational approach, where the formulation or adjuvant is designed using only theoretical considerations, thereby integrating the findings of basic research.Experience in the development of suitable formulations or adjuvants, a multidimensional problem, cannot easily be bought. It is hard task and a skill-requiring process which necessitates a critical ey coupled with a creditable knowledge of the biological processes involved VI Preface Fig. 1. The participants of the workshopin addition to the physicochemical field. The "spray" and "weigh" image of the industry, we hope, has long been buried, and we are sure we will not let ourselves be fooled that once we know a compound's physical and chemical properties, we know exactly which adjuvant we require to maximize performance. Somewhere in between the extreme approaches there is a cost-effective, efficient compromise. The objective of the workshop was to establish the working practice across the disciplines and various fields of study in order to find that compromise.Session of the workshop, dealt wit...