Research & Innovation without borders

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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.

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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.

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
25
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.

Our cutting-edge asset catalogue sits at the heart of our engineering research and innovation work with customers.

Everything in our catalogue is indexed by application domain, research focus and industry so teams can quickly zero in on the assets that matter most to any given goal. This enables customers to avoid the sunk costs of starting from scratch and the delays of lengthy R&D cycles. It reduces risk, accelerates time-to-impact, and frees budgets for deployment rather than discovery.

Capgemini Engineering’s university partnerships give customers direct access to world-leading research that anticipates future industry challenges.

The Capgemini Strategic University program is based around structured, long-term programs with the top universities worldwide in each of the following three priority areas: disrupting engineering, accelerating sustainability, and mastering complexity. By co-developing research with leading academics, Capgemini builds cutting-edge capabilities years before they reach the market. This has recently included advanced battery simulation; trusted AI for autonomous systems; and high-speed material discovery. For our customers, this means solutions grounded in scientific rigour, early access to emerging technologies, and confidence that today’s investments are future-proof. These partnerships also attract and inspire top talent, ensuring customers benefit from teams at the forefront of engineering and digital innovation.

More about our partnerships

Georgia Institute of Technology

This research program will develop digital twin technology to create a model-based enterprise and digitally stimulate its complex system.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The collaboration will focus on establishing new paradigms for building trust in AI and autonomous systems.

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King’s College London

Innovative joint research project will focus on developing new architecture frameworks to enable ultra-large coverage, AI native and sustainable 6G networks.

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University of California, Berkeley

Smart tools and methodologies to discover new material surface properties.

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University of Oxford

The innovative joint research project will focus on underlying factors determining safety and trust in autonomous cars.

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ETH Zurich

Exploring multi-material structures in ALM. How can we make sustainable technologies breakthrough?

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With Capgemini, you gain a partner who turns the whole world’s innovation into your competitive advantage, effortlessly crossing industry and geographic borders, fuelled by a worldwide network of experts and dedicated research centers in the UK, US, Singapore, and India.

As the world leader in engineering and R&D services our research centers bring customers truly global expertise and capabilities, cutting-edge technologies in digital and software, agile engineering platforms, and an industrialized delivery model. Our labs foster an innovation ecosystem by collaborating with clients, partners, technology providers, and academic institutions to deliver actionable insights and drive innovation.

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.

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