In this post, we publish the Concordi 2017 White paper on Corporate R&D and Innovation
Air Liquide is an industrial company, whose activities are part of several energy and manufacturing value chains.
In the past 20 years, Air Liquide has participated in or led a number of collaborative initiatives within the EU and national innovation frameworks to accelerate energy transition for example in the transport sector by introducing hydrogen as an energy for electric vehicles. Leveraging this experience, and in collaboration with Meetsys and 2B1st Consulting, two French SME the authors present in this paper their vision about possible ways to accelerate energy transition in Europe through new ways of collaboration facilitated by digital technologies and Industrie 4.0.
We believe that giving experts and innovators the possibility to build structured knowledge networks inside an organization and beyond has a significant effect on their capability to innovate. To deploy new technologies with benefits to the environment, business models usually need to be re-designed.
Based on the concept of the German Industrie 4.0 value network approach, a smart platform easing collaboration between several partners through the modeling of business scenarios is also presented. We have in Europe the complete ecosystem which allows creating a sustainable energy transition.
The challenge is to associate expert skills across organizations, including public institutions and private companies to close the loop connecting technologies, business models and policies. Small Businesses can act as agile connectors to reduce large organization resistance to change.
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