Drive progress
- Anticipating major societal trends
- Reinforce collaborations with external innovation ecosystems
- Give greater impetus to internal innovation ecosystems
This strategy of resolutely open and collaborative innovation enhances working methods, stimulates collective intelligence, encourages audacity and offers a fresh perspective on the world.
By way of foresight
The foresight approach implemented by Orano reflects the group’s commitment to anticipating future developments opportunities in a rapidly changing world. We are rolling out an approach that reflects who we are: a custom-designed plan to fully raise all employees' awareness of these multiples and simultaneous transformations and mobilize them accordingly.
It provides employees with access to a library of trends compiled based on dedicated intelligence. Orano is also actively involved in the ecosystem for foresight to improve our capacity to identify new trends and soft signals.
Every year since 2019, an expedition is organized around a high-stakes theme for the group, inspired by major societal trends. Our approach enables us to experiment with new methods to explore the world by projecting ourselves into divisive,
sometimes extreme futures, in order to build the group’s resilience and identify levers for action toward a desirable future.
Examples of themes already explored
2020
Orano in the hydrogen economy
2021
Orano’s anchors and roles in the new regional transition dynamics
2022
Focus on resources and raw materials for energy between now and 2040
An active foresight approach since 2019
One expedition per year
Through connection and effective collaboration with external ecosystems
Since its creation, Orano has deployed every mode of cooperation with companies in its ecosystem — startups and small & medium-sized enterprises — both to support the performance of its existing operations and the design of its new plants,
and to explore new growth opportunities for a sustainable future.
Our innovation strategy is based on an open and international ecosystem.
- Collaboration with around 100 VSBs/SMEs
- 150 cooperation projects
- 70 projects deployed
Orano & startup accelerators
One ambition: support the development and growth of start-ups and SMEs in their local areas.
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Orano Venture Fund
An ambition: to foster innovation among deeptech startups.
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Immersive Startups Program
The ambition: to foster an agile and open corporate culture, strengthen employee engagement, and develop team soft skills by supporting the growth of French deeptech startups.
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By highlighting initiatives in the field
Orano makes innovation a human adventure, in which Orano's people are involved and have an active part to play.
The implementation of the innovation strategy calls upon Orano's people and mobilizes the group's proud and committed employees, who are actively involved in and make a substantive contribution to the group's transformation.
Orano Awards
Every two years, this internal innovation contest mobilizes all employees of the group who share the innovative projects which they are most proud of. The Orano Awards recognize the 18 innovation projects with the most impact, 6 of which will be chosen as award winners, from over 130 innovative projects presented and showcased as part of the selection process.
JeudInnovation
Every month, these one-hour thematic conferences provide an opportunity to share information about innovative projects being implemented as part of Orano's activities, and for the benefit of our customers, by employees of the group.
Inspire
On a day-to-day basis, testimonies from employees of Orano who present their innovative projects in a short video format… A moment to share inspiration with everyone and to illustrate the group's DNA as an innovator!
Development of skills for today and tomorrow
Orano's teams bring together a range of profiles with a variety of technical know-how and unique and specific expertise. To rise to the challenges of tomorrow, the group is developing new complementary skills.
Business innovation
One ambition: explore and develop new growth opportunities which are profitable, lasting and sustainable for the group in the nuclear and other sectors.
This ambition means it is necessary to develop skills that make it possible to design, explore, derisk and progressively fine-tune innovative value creation models, as part of a test & learn fast strategy, in conjunction with the targeted ecosystems and environments.
The group employs innovation approaches developed by universities which are at the cutting edge in this field, in particular with the integration of approaches based on entrepreneurial management, innovation through business models, innovation in services and design applied to innovation.
This ambition means it is necessary to develop skills that make it possible to design, explore, derisk and progressively fine-tune innovative value creation models, as part of a test & learn fast strategy, in conjunction with the targeted ecosystems and environments.
The group employs innovation approaches developed by universities which are at the cutting edge in this field, in particular with the integration of approaches based on entrepreneurial management, innovation through business models, innovation in services and design applied to innovation.
Innovation and Design
One ambition: unleash the power of collective intelligence and create a triptych of Business, Technical and Design skills.
Orano is collaborating more closely with players in design to disseminate their specific
practices, know-how and soft skills within the group:
- capacities to observe and question as part of a systemic approach, pick up on trends, and listen to users with a degree of empathy which is still rare in an industrial environment.
- skills in imagining, drawing and modeling to visualize ideas and aid with understanding, tests, improvement and validation in the field prior to execution.
The objective: develop products, services, and value creation models with even greater impact.
Initiatives launched in partnership with AKTAN, Attoma, and the Strate and CY schools of design, among others.
Innovation Culture
An ambition: to engage teams and strengthen the spirit of innovation across the Group.
With nearly a thousand new hires each year for the next 10 years — including a growing number of managers — Orano has developed
a tailor-made, action-based learning program for managers and early-career employees to build their innovation skills.
- An “Innovation Catalyst” program for managers, co-designed with Orano’s Management School (EdM).
- A version of this program for early-career employees, delivered as a team-based “bootcamp.”
Open up the field of future possibilities, to lead the group towards different horizons.
- Invent a sustainable future Faced with the changing world and climate, environmental, industrial and societal challenges, innovating is no longer an option.
- Take action on transitions Nuclear is an energy with a bright future and represents a real asset in meeting the many challenges with which the world is faced.