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Airbus launches innovation unit
November 4th 2021
European aerospace giant Airbus has launched an innovation unit designed to bring together corporate innovation, engagement with start-ups and company-building activities. Read More » Airbus said Airbus Scale will support the company’s recovery and growth by contributing to the development of future programmes and businesses as part of its zero-emissions program. It will promote and identify internal corporate innovation opportunities that can be developed into solutions for the external world. It will bring them to market and attract external investments that could result in spin-offs generating value. In parallel, the new unit will partner with start-ups outside the company that are in the later stages of development and advance technological innovations and products. Airbus expects the unit to strengthen the company’s overall “innovation landscape” and complement other Airbus innovation centres at Acubed in California’s Silicon Valley, the Airbus China Innovation Centre (ACIC) in Shenzhen and the Airbus UpNext technology demonstrator entity. “Pioneering sustainable aerospace will be a collective challenge and innovation is at the core of it,” said Airbus chief technical officer, Sabine Klauke. “By setting up Airbus Scale, we will use our existing internal knowledge and know-how to scale up new companies from underutilised assets. We will also look outside to seek, and inject into Airbus, start-ups that have relevant technology for our future zero emissions ambition.”
