EADS Innovation
Innovation at EADS
The world will change considerably in the coming decades, requiring new products based on emerging technologies and efficient processes. Products and processes must be tightly linked to improve competitiveness and differentiation. Research & Technology (R&T) plays a central role in EADS remaining competitive by being more innovative, better, cheaper and faster in delivering products than its competitors, in view of the fact that European companies suffer from a largely fragmented and generally lower customer funding than e.g. their US peers.
In addition, EADS and its Divisions promote cutting-edge technologies and scientific excellence to contribute to global progress and to deliver solutions for the challenges of societal issues Environmental Protection, Mobility, Defence and Security, Safety.
EADS aims to strengthen its position as a global leader in the aerospace and defence business and to deliver competitive, integrated solutions to its customers while targeting increased revenues and profitability. In doing so, the company strives to solidify an innovation culture, to work more globally for all its stakeholders, improve its cultural diversity and promote ethics and transparency within its organization.
The Research & Technology Strategic Approach
The key strategic obligations for EADS include the saving and developing of core competencies and core technologies for platform and platform-based systems architecture and integration. In parallel, EADS must keep the innovation pipeline constantly filled to replace ageing technologies and processes. Each Division must muster the technologies needed to face fierce international competition and pro-actively respond to customer requirements.
Building on the identification, evaluation and clear prioritization of critical technologies for the Group, EADS is shaping a technological policy that strengthens group synergies and is aimed at maintaining and, when needed, increasing the EADS R&T effort, each Division being responsible to propose its own targets, and at securing public and private R&T funding.
The EADS R&T strategy is driven by:
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Shareholder Value: a stringent, leading-edge R&T portfolio that enables flawless introduction of new technology on future products and delivers strong Return-on-Investment
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Customer Excitement: High-value solutions that meet the technological, performance, safety, and cost-competitive pressures that challenge our future
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Societal Responsibility: solutions answering the paramount considerations of mobility, environmental protection, safety and security
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Successful on-time, on-quality, on-price introduction of new products and processes
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Technology leadership to fuel business growth
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