Our approach to innovation

Message from Antoine Frérot

Veolia Environnement is the world leader in environmental solutions. Our position brings huge responsibilities, which we aim to shoulder both fully and creatively with respect to our customers, to society, and to the ecosystems on which we depend.

A real environmental revolution is already under way in a bid to rise to the challenges of growth today. However, without new technology, there can be no green growth.

No matter what the field, we can only achieve the efficiency, economy and responsibility that underpin the principles of green growth by way of a deep-seated transformation driven by technological integration and innovation.

The Veolia Innovation Accelerator stems from the belief that the speed with which innovation can be developed and deployed on a global scale will depend on our ability to move forward together as one, by way of networks and partnerships.

In creating the Veolia Innovation Accelerator, the company has leveraged its position as a technology integrator to contribute to collective innovation and make it available to as many people as possible.

Editorial by Philippe Martin

The world faces an unprecedented challenge. Population growth, dwindling resources and climate change all threaten to upset the delicate balance of ecosystems and endanger the communities that depend on them.

It is Veolia Environnement's business to tackle these challenges. For more than 155 years, we have protected and improved people's living conditions by bringing water, transportation and energy to communities - and managing their waste.
Today, our 312,590 employees are on the front line of addressing environmental management issues all over the world, deploying the most relevant and innovative technologies to meet each need.
Working in the field every day, we know the scale of the challenge ahead. To succeed, we will need to work more efficiently and innovate faster in order to implement new ways of doing things.
This is why we decided to pool skills and share our enthusiasm by reaching beyond our organization to forward-thinking partners. This will help us identify, adapt and deploy the technologies of tomorrow.

We need you and your resourcefulness to speed up the environmental revolution.

The Veolia Innovation Accelerator program provides the ideal group of players to help accelerate the most innovative environmental technologies.
For us, this is an exciting opportunity to tap into more creativity and lay the foundations of our future successes. We can build our business together. If you are creating environmentally friendly solutions, chances are we can combine them with others and deliver them to communities around the world.

Together, we can strengthen mankind's confidence in the future.

Philippe Martin,
Senior Vice President, Research & Innovation at Veolia Environnement