Innovation, our core strategy
Innovation
At Naval Group, innovation serves two major challenges: guaranteeing the technological superiority of our customers across all oceans, and improving our competitiveness, a condition for our leadership on all continents.
Innovation is also about ambition: offering excellence in naval defence and energy. Naval Group has introduced innovation into its technological strategic plan, in 6 major areas: Smart naval force, Invulnerable ship, Smart ship, Blue ship, Smart availability, Smart industry.
To accelerate its innovation approach, Naval Group relies on 3 fundamental pillars: “collaborative innovation”, “open innovation” and “breakthrough innovation”. An agile approach – like our various laboratories and technology incubators – which, combined with the recognised scientific expertise of the Naval Research teams, does not pass up any promising conceptual designs.
Governance
R&D governance is overseen by the Naval Group Technical and Innovation department (DTI). This department carries out this mission by drawing on all the Group's entities and expertise, including Naval Research which has three R&D centres of expertise.

Centres of excellence: the world of Naval Group
Innovation knows no borders. Thanks to Operational Excellence Centres in France and around the world, Naval Group is investing massively to extend its sphere of influence, surround itself with the best partners internationally and stay one step ahead.

Members of the Scientific Council
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Armel de la Bourdonnaye
Director of INSA Hauts-de-France, Dr. Hab. In scientific computing
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Sophie Brétésché
Vice-President of the scientific council
Professor of Sociology
IMT Atlantic
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Joël Bertrand
President of the scientific council
Emeritus Senior Research Director, CNRS
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Jean-Luc Fihey
PhD, Ing., FCAE, Adjunct Professor and Manager Valorisation Research and Innovation, ÉTS
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Hubert Giraud
Professor of Electrochemistry, Energy and Mobility EPFL Lausanne
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Saadi
Professor of Social Psychology
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Thierry Massard
Engineer in mechanics and PhD from Ecole Centrale Paris in physics
Former Scientific Director of CEA
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Maria Nadia Postorino
Full professor of Transport Engineering - PhD
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Dominique Vernay
Vice President
Academy of Technologies
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Cécile Godé
Full professor in management science, Aix-Marseille University
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Elisabeth Crepon
President ENSTA Paris
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Olivier Rey
CNRS Research fellow
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Brigitte PLATEAU
Director General of the Grenoble INP group
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Unifying focuses
Smart naval force, Invulnerable ship, Smart ship, Blue ship, Smart availability, Smart industry.

Open Innovation
Opening up, identifying talented partnerships, inventing new ways of working together, in France and around the world, to accelerate the implementation of new on-board technologies.
