Innovation Engine


In a business and economic context which has been radically changing in recent years, Ansaldo Energia has embraced new “open”  business models, including the move from a “Closed Innovation” to an “Open Innovation” approach.

A pillar of this new approach is the so-called “Demand Driven Open Innovation”, where users and customers jointly generate new ideas, drive development themes, and implement successful innovative solutions more effectively.

Ansaldo Energia firstly presented the concept of “Demand Driven Open Innovation” during the Customer Day held in Genoa the 12th of March 2010, and the on-line feedbacks from the audience have been extremely encouraging, since most customers have shown a strong interest in being actively involved in a co-design process.

Hence, AEN has created the “Innovation Engine” Platform, whose objective is to accelerate the competitive progress in the Power Generation Industry, driven by his customers’ critical Requirements in conjunction with AEN Turbomachinery Expertise.

The Innovation Engine is structured in three phases.

Phase 1 - The Open Gate: is a simple on-line tool to gather the customers’ feedback in order to identify the most promising technologies and services that best contribute to the success of the customers’ businesses.

Phase 2 - Is based on the analysis of all the received feedbacks, the selection of the themes and the setting up of the forums where, accordingly with the preferences the customers have expressed, possible joint development activities are identified.

Phase 3 - Is the implementation of the above mentioned projects, and their going live into the Power Generation Industry.