Alstom Ethics| Sustainability| Investors| Careers| Press Centre| Contact Us Change Language Home Group Power Grid Transport Countries Shaping the future through innovations, with Alstom Visit our Innovation corner Alstom introduces on Alstom.com a new interactive corner dedicated to the Group's innovation in the energy and rail transport sectors. In an immersive 3D landscape, you will be able to “fly over” Alstom’s emblematic and innovative products and projects across all Alstom sectors and find out everything you need to know about them, thanks to videos, infographics, brochures. You will also be able to read the special issue produced by Alstom with Scientific American magazine, dedicated to Open Innovation and showcasing the works of worldwide scientists. In this innovation corner, discover also video interviews of several Alstom experts who share the story of the Group’s recent emblematic R&D projects: their birth, their development and impact. What does the Axonis turnkey metro system bring to fast-growing urban populations? How does the pumped-storage technology in hydroelectric dams work? How will the city of tomorrow be shaped, thanks to smart energy management solutions integrating renewable energies? How will selective laser melting revolutionize the industry? App available in: Web version Android version (coming soon) iPad version (coming soon) Innovation as a key factor of competitiveness Innovation is one of Alstom’s strategic pillars and what makes the Group a world leader in its sectors. It is a key factor for competitiveness, sustainability and anticipating the customers’ needs. In order to inspire a new momentum in the Group’s future technologies, Alstom created an Innovation Committee. Five major cross-functional themes, as guidelines for R&D, were identified: materials and especially nanotechnologies, power electronics, digital, energy storage and future urban systems. This innovation committee also aims to foster “open innovation” and implement strategic partnerships with research teams, innovative start-ups, universities, industry leaders in these fields. Innovation culture throughout the Group Innovation is part of Alstom and its teams’ DNA. Thousands of technicians, engineers, project leaders are mobilized on long-term projects from the very first idea to the industrialization and production phases. As part of this innovation culture, the Group organizes since 2008 the « Innovation Awards », an annual competition open to all Alstom employees which invites them to submit innovative projects or inventions. Introduced in order to foster a spirit of innovation in Alstom and the cross fertilisation of ideas, it has truly found its place in the Group over the years, involving hundreds of participants and projects. This year, the Innovation Awards will acknowledge winning teams in 5 categories: Innovative process; Innovative products and systems ; Green innovations ; Small but smart ; Open innovation. The Innovation Awards 2014 ceremony takes place on December 15th 2014 in Paris and information about the winning projects will be published soon on the Alstom.com Innovation corner. Innovation at Alstom: key figures Alstom increased its R&D effort through the years. The Group spent €733 M in the 2013/2014 financial year (against €440 M in 2006/07, 66% increase). Around 10, 000 people work for R&D at Alstom, out of a total of 93,000 employees. *The Web app will be released in January 2015 in a mobile version for tablets. It will be downloadable on the App Store and Google Play (compatible with iPad Retina tablets running on iOS 6 & beyond and Android tablets running 4.4 Kitkat & beyond). **When you access for the first time to the Alstom Innovation corner, your web browser will launch a window requesting for installation of Unity web player. Click on Install and follow the steps described here. Alstom Power generation About us Products and Services News Worldwide Resources Electrical grid About us Products and Services News Resources Worldwide Contact Us Rail solutions About us Products and Services News Suppliers Resources Worldwide facebook youtube twitter linkedin Press release RSS Feed Other news RSS feed Sitemap| Legal Notice| Cookies| Alstom Partners| Alstom Foundation| Contact Alstom © Copyright ALSTOM 2014