Innovation, our core strategy
Innovation
At Naval Group, innovation serves two major challenges: guaranteeing the technological superiority of our customers, 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 six major areas: Smart naval force, Invulnerable ship, Smart ship, Blue ship, Smart availability, Smart industry.
To accelerate its efforts in the field of innovation”, Naval Group is basing its efforts around three fundamental pillars: collaborative innovation, open innovation and breakthrough innovation. An agile approach - just like that of our various laboratories and technology incubators - which, combined with the recognised scientific expertise of the Naval Research teams, does not overlook any promising conceptual designs.
Innovation
Naval Group annually invests a significant portion of its total sales in R&D and innovation to provide its customers with new high-tech products combining significant added value with controlled costs.
Our strategic orientations for innovation
Six strategic orientations structure our innovation strategy, enabling us to anticipate technological revolutions and upcoming transformations in naval combat.
Gearing up for the future...starting today
Naval Group invests in upstream scientific research in close collaboration with first-rate French, European and international research institutes and academic partners thus gearing up for future technological breakthroughs.
With guidance from an external multidisciplinary Scientific Council composed of renowned international figures, this research is structured around nine cross-disciplinary scientific fields covering material, digital, energy, hydrodynamic, acoustic as well as oceanic and climatic sciences.
The Scientific Council also actively promotes the group's scientific work by awarding its La Pérouse prize, rewarding the scientific value, originality and audacity of our researchers' work when it comes to innovation.
Members of the Scientific Council
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Joël Bertrand
President of the Scientific Council
Emeritus Senior Research Director, CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Sophie Brétésché
Vice-President of the Scientific Council
Professor of Sociology
IMT Atlantique (French technological university)
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Armel de la Bourdonnaye
Director of INSA (National Institutes of Science and Technology) Hauts-de-France, Certified Doctor in scientific computing
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Jean-Luc Fihey
PhD, Ing., FCAE, Adjunct Professor and Manager - Valorisation Research and Innovation, ÉTS (Canadian school of higher education in engineering and technology)
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Hubert Girault
Honorary Professor of physical chemistry at EPFL (Lausanne Federal Polytechnic School)
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Saadi L.
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 (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
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Maria Nadia Postorino
University Full Professor in Transport Engineering
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Cécile Godé
Research Manager, CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
Emeritus Research Director, CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Elisabeth Crepon
General Director of ENSTA Paris (French Engineering school)
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Olivier Rey
Research follow at CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Brigitte Plateau
General Director of Grenoble INP (Graduate schools of Engineering and Management)
Associate Professor of Mathematics
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Christelle Roy
Director Europe and International Division, CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research)
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Françoise Gaill
Vice-President of the Ocean & Climate Platform
Scientific Advisor- Ocean at CNRS-INEE (French Centre for Scientific Research-Institute of Ecology and Environment)
An open and collaborative approach to innovation
At Naval Group, open innovation is at the core of our approach to innovation. Identify strategic partners, forge new alliances and come up with new ways of working together, to accelerate the integration of new technologies onboard our ships.
Videos
L'innovation, un enjeu pour les navires, mais aussi pour les chantiers.
Innovate today to conquer tomorrow
Naval Group reveals the SMX® 31 E, its 2020 concept ship
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.
