We believe the technology and solutions of the future can come from any number of sources.
Our approach to innovation
Veolia Environnement is first and foremost a service company. We offer our customers the best available solutions to manage water, waste, energy and transportation.
Our Research & Innovation Department, with more than 850 scientists and engineers, helps ensure our technology leadership. R&I works with our technology partners to select, adapt and roll out the technologies that make our services the most efficient, safe and cost-effective on the market today.
Research & Innovation pursues its own solutions:
- When no existing technology meets our needs
- For certain aspects of water treatment
That is why Veolia Environnement launched the Veolia Innovation Accelerator program to identify the world's most innovative cleantech solutions and ideas and help them flourish on an industrial scale.
Veolia, the technology integrator

