Present challenges
Gathering ideas through schemes organized both within and outside the Group.
- Open innovation
- The ecological transition
- Our model
- For shared innovation
- Le partnership
- Partnerships
Open innovation
For innovation, more than just investment is needed. We have opened up to everyone’s ideas
We are committed to a process of growth and transformation guided by ESG criteria. Our innovation model is an accelerator and strategic lever for this process because it makes it possible to achieve the goals of sustainability set out in our strategic plan.
Being a Life Company means innovating responsibly, creating relationships of equality. Collaboration and shared participation. both within and outside the company, are the foundations of our idea of innovation: open, shared and interconnected.
The Open Innovation platform
In order to give life to our innovation model and make it truly effective, we chose to create an Open Innovation platform that allows us to:
Make concrete investments in projects
With the Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) scheme, we invest in start-ups with high innovation potential in selected spheres and sectors in line with our Business Plan.
Turning entrepreneurial ideas into successful ventures
Through our Corporate Venture Builder, we invest in high-impact ideas using the Group's resources and expertise to accelerate the shift towards energy transition and the circular economy.
The ecological transition
We support ideas than can help us create a more sustainable future
Our path towards a full Ecological Transition can only be completed thanks to a responsible innovation model able to generate technological solutions for the development of the circular economy and the energy transition, both fundamental for the safeguarding of the planet’s future and improvements in the quality of all of our lives.
Circular economy
We value ideas that, through the reuse, reconditioning and recycling of existing materials, extend the life cycle of the product, helping to reduce waste to a minimum.
Energy Transition
We value ideas that promote the production of clean energy, sustainable mobility, the electrification of consumption and sustainability.
Our model
We invest in ideas and solutions that can speed up our journey
The main goals of our innovation model are:
Enabling disruption
Supporting the group in the identification of opportunities for the creation of new markets, products and services in order to reach medium- to long-term objectives and create a competitive advantage.
Guiding transformation towards a Life Company
Supporting the group in transformation through the development and implementation of high-impact projects with innovative technologies/solutions that have a concrete effect on the quality of people’s lives and on the growth of industries.
Spreading the culture of innovation
Spreading the culture of innovation in the group, encouraging the widespread and lasting participation of employees with a variety of initiatives (idea competitions, intrapreneurship schemes, …).
Fostering responsible innovation
Strengthening and extending channels of group communication and positioning, steering them towards the ecosystem of innovation and, in more general terms, towards the market.
For shared innovation
We use technology to create value for the collective
Our innovation projects utilize the latest technologies and artificial intelligence to improve workplace safety, optimize time and costs and promote a future characterized by sustainability.
We have set ourselves the objective of being always in step with the times and of anticipating industry macro-trends, pushing constantly for the innovation, digitalization and optimization of processes.
Partnerships
The success of ideas depends on the strength of our community
Together, we can meet the most important objectives. This is why we seek out the best partners, which include 360 Capital, a leading venture capital company with over 20 years of experience, Eureka! Venture SGR with its technology transfer fund focussed on deep-tech start-ups coming from Italian research centres and universities, and CDP Venture Capital SGR with its Tech4Planet national technology transfer hub dedicated to environmental sustainability, in collaboration with the polytechnics of Milan, Turin and Bari.
