Research & Innovation without borders

Capgemini Engineering helps turn innovation in any sector, industry or field of study into your competitive advantage.

Powered by a living catalogue of curated engineering innovation assets and activated through our global research network of labs and academic partnerships.

Our innovation stories

Kyanos Biotechnologies, on the road to sustainable food

Kyanos Biotechnologies engages Capgemini to structure and scale up production of algae for sustainable food

The TREEADS project: innovation and technology for forest fire prevention, detection, and restoration

As societies grow increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, the ability of different stakeholders to manage and mitigate their impact in a safe, coordinated, and efficient manner is becoming increasingly important

Ascendance's journey to sustainable aviation takes off

The aviation pioneer strengthens its partnership with Capgemini to pursue the development and industrialization of a cutting-edge hybrid electric propulsion system and low-carbon aircraft

We believe the true power of innovation lies in its freedom to travel beyond borders, moving effortlessly from one sector, market, or geography to another, refashioning bold ideas and developing brand new breakthroughs for fresh contexts along the way. When insights gained in smart mobility spark breakthroughs in banking, or a healthcare algorithm reinvents retail demand prediction, innovation stops being local and starts being limitless.

Part of the Capgemini Innovation Ecosystem

We leverage the latest technology and thinking to drive forward-looking solutions that yield genuine business impact – from proving the value of disruptive technologies, to anticipating future trends so you can take advantage of them responsibly.

The challenge

Engineering innovation is limitless, but businesses struggle to harness it. Constant horizon- scanning is costly, the pace of change is relentless, and convergence across industries makes it hard to know where to focus.

This is a complex task for businesses today. They must prioritize effective innovation around the themes that will improve their organization, whilst simultaneously staying on top of all the variables affecting what those might be at any given moment – from the emergence of new disruptive technologies to the convergence of digital and physical worlds, and even the powerful influence of external uncontrollable forces.

Our solution

Those leading their companies’ engineering capability must prioritize the development of effective engineering innovation strategies to foster growth. That means being ready to meet today’s market challenges whilst preparing for those likely to be part of their future. Striking the right balance is a challenge because it demands constant vigilance over an ever-expanding global technology landscape. That requires heavy investment without the guarantee of a return.

We enable clients to experience limitless innovation for themselves without that burden.

Our Global Research and Innovation network includes:

80+

academic collaborations

600+

engineers in annual ideations campaigns

research labs worldwide

The result is the ability to go further, faster – unlocking opportunities that might otherwise remain out of reach. Whether optimizing complex value chains, designing for a seamlessly digital future, or achieving breakthroughs in environmental sustainability, our approach delivers transformative value.

How it works in practice

We combine immersive technology workshops and deep university partnerships with our proprietary COMPAS methodology (Capability + Opportunity + Method + Prototype + Accelerate + Scale) to transform the raw potential in our innovation catalogue into a bespoke “innovation kit” precisely aligned to the client’s ambitions, constraints, and market timing.

And when discovery becomes reality, Capgemini’s engineers stand ready to industrialize the outcome, architecting, integrating, and scaling the solution across your enterprise so it delivers measurable value at production scale.

Our research programs

Future of Mobility

Accelerate the future of flight, multi-modal transport shared mobility as not just topics but reshaping the vision for safer skies collaborative autonomic vehicles for sustainable urban super cities.

Future of Networks & Compute

Eliminate constraints on compute network storage for next generation immersive experiences forward toward future space economy.

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Future of Healthcare

Accelerating the development of science-based solutions, by fostering internal and ecosystem partnerships, leveraging deep regulatory expertise, and prioritizing patient well-being to make healthcare more affordable, accessible, and sustainable future of healthcare.

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Future of Sustainability

Acting to accelerate the transition towards sustainable industries by building end-to-end science-based solutions that help monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate change all the while meeting long-term human and societal needs.

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Future of Manufacturing

Leading transformation manufacturing operations through disruption disruptive improvement towards an intelligent competitive sustainable industry with a human-centered approach.

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Future of Energy

Researching with Clients and Partners and innovative disruptive solutions to the energy transition journey, ensuring the highest standards of safety, affordability and sustainability by applying our engineering capabilities and know-how.

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Future of Systems Engineering

Enabling our clients to reach the pinnacle of innovative, sustainable cutting-edge engineering solutions. Capable of enhancing human capabilities and accelerating progress in a way that allows us to achieve excellence in the present age of advancement.

Future of Intelligence

Thoughtfully apply data science and machine learning technologies to scale industry-specific problems in precision medicine, autonomous systems, aerospace simulations and industrial automation.

Our experts

Keith Williams has 34 years’ experience in the engineering & technology industry. As Chief Technology Officer, Keith drives Research & Innovation, Strategic Investment and Technical Authority across all industrial and technical domains. He played a pivotal role in the development of the Capgemini WindSightIQTM innovative solution that brought real-time wind visualization to the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup.

Rodrigo Maia brings over 20 years of expertise to his role as Global Head of Research and Innovation at Capgemini Engineering. With a rich background in spearheading R&D and innovation across multiple tech sectors, he is renowned for his strategic acumen in fostering collaboration and driving technological advancements. At the helm of R&I, he has orchestrated key initiatives, such as the development of 5GLabs and the establishment of Vortex-Colab, enhancing Capgemini’s stature in cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems.

Anne-Laure has over two decades of experience in R&D consulting, business and R&D management. Since joining Capgemini in 2018 as R&I director, she has risen to lead the Capgemini Engineering Strategic University program, to advance engineering over the three to five year horizon.

Research & Innovation without borders

Capgemini Engineering helps turn innovation in any sector, industry or field of study into your competitive advantage.

Our innovation stories

Kyanos Biotechnologies, on the road to sustainable food

The TREEADS project: innovation and technology for forest fire prevention, detection, and restoration

Ascendance's journey to sustainable aviation takes off

Part of the Capgemini Innovation Ecosystem

The challenge

Our solution

Innovation asset catalogue

University partnerships

More about our partnerships

Georgia Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

King’s College London

University of California, Berkeley

University of Oxford

ETH Zurich

Labs around the world

How it works in practice