Digital technology holds immense promise, so long as it has a positive social and environmental impact. That’s why we have a responsible approach to innovation, while ensuring as many people as possible can take advantage of it.
“Open a field of possibilities”
In a rapidly changing digital world, technology opens up new possibilities every day. Orange is committed to enabling digital transformation now and in the future through connectivity, 5G, large-scale IoT, Artificial Intelligence and more.
As technology gradually changes how we live and work, as well as the world around us, it is opening up a huge field of possibilities. This is also a great opportunity for Orange and partners to innovate, offer useful new services to customers, and streamline, optimise and enrich their digital experience.
Orange OpenTech
Further, faster, together
Once a year, OpenTech event invites experts and researchers to explore the Orange Group's latest must-have technological innovations.
We welcome key players from the Tech and Telco ecosystem in our innovation eco-campus, united around a common vision: innovating together to shape the future.
With over 45 innovation and research demonstrations, workshops, keynotes and inspiring roundtables, the event promises total immersion in the future of networks in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
Our innovation approach
The teams at Orange are united in their “human inside” philosophy to technology. As part of an open innovation approach, we’re joining forces with many tech players in the ecosystem to accelerate future solutions. Our research and innovation teams are part of a large, collaborative community of researchers, engineers, designers, developers, data scientists, sociologists, graphic designers, marketing professionals and cybersecurity experts.
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These teams work closely with our partners, ecosystems and stakeholders in the tech sector to speed up our time-to-market and make the most of our networks.
This includes forging co-innovation projects with start-ups, developers, large industrial groups, standards bodies, educational institutions and academia.
To ensure a simple, intuitive and locally relevant experience, we combine a global and local approach:
Staying ahead in the race requires us to make large-scale investments, deploy cost-effective infrastructure, attract key skills and also forge partnerships with web giants such as the GAFA and more.
Remaining agile allows us to stay in direct contact with our local ecosystems so that we can respond in a relevant way to market and customer needs in all of our operating countries.
Sustainable innovation
The Group aims to achieve net carbon zero by 2014, 10 years ahead of the GSMA, despite ever-increasing data traffic on our networks. This will involve a 50% use of renewables in the Group’s energy mix consumption by 2025, as well as an unprecedented effort to improve our energy efficiency. Since 2010, the Orange Green ITN initiative has been progressively optimising infrastructure and operational processes to reduce the energy consumption of our networks and IT equipment, and this will continue through the Green ITN2025 program.
By 2025, all Orange-branded products will follow an eco-design approach. Already, for many years we have incorporated environmental efficiency from the start of the product lifecycle. The Livebox 5, launched in 2019 to boost fibre speeds, offers a reduced carbon footprint through a 100% plastic shell, lighter and smaller design, fewer electronic components (which facilitates repairs and recycling) and passive ventilation. We’ll continue to promote its circular economy and eco-design approach as part of our strategic plan.
Orange R&D: a key strength throughout the ages
We rely on our research teams to explore groundbreaking technologies, new uses and innovative business models as well as to deploy future networks and services. Aware that today’s ecosystem is more open and global than ever, we interact closely with innovative, academic, institutional and industrial ecosystems and co-develop solutions in collaboration with a range of external stakeholders. The ability to learn new skills, engage in dynamic ecosystems, develop high-quality IP and test new technological systems remains a highly valuable asset for Orange past, present and future.
N°1
European operator in terms of patents filed, with more than 10.000 patents.
We have an active portfolio of patents and patent applications in France and abroad, protecting our innovations and contributions to international standards development (5G, video coding, etc.), as well as Open Source solutions for futur infrastructure.
600
Researchers, doctorate and post-doc research roles contributing a wide variety of skills
(radio, fibre optics, software, cloud, Big Data, AI, security as well as sociology, economics and design...).
7
high-level scientists of international renown, making up our Scientific Council.
It consists in an advisory body whose purpose is to make recommendations on the Group's research policy.
Co-innovation: proactive and collaborative development through a whole world of initiatives
As part of a cocreation approach,we interact closely with partners ecosystems and external stakeholders to develop a wide range of innovative solutions.These help us make the most of our networks while ensuring a simple and intuitive customer experience. Our vision is one of open innovation, with the customer at its core.
