The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the key elements of the 2030 Agenda, the international sustainable development programme to contribute to global development, promote human well-being and protect the environment.
Eni has a constant commitment to responsible development inspired by the SDGs considering new models of technological partnership and results valorization.
R&D is the engine for sustainable growth and goes across strategic initiatives for decarbonization, to improve quality of products, efficiency of projects, processes, operations and valorization of new technologies for the transition to a low-carbon energy future.
Thanks to many initiatives launched by Eni to pursues the SDGs, the intellectual property become a critical and evolving asset: it supports and facilitates the Company goals achievement, requiring a strategic approach along the development of technology to be flexible.
The need and the urgency to stay ahead of the innovation frontier in nowadays evolving scenario motivated the Company to envision a cooperative multi-actor innovation process, the Open Innovation model, which sees the corporate acting as "innovation catalyst" for a number of external actors from the idea generation, to development, validation and industrialization phases in a win-win manner.
In the framework of technology research & development into the industry, since the beginning of the idea generation up to industrial deployment of the technology, the Intellectual Property (IP) strategy is mandatory to build up relationship with third parties, also through Open Innovation Model, and to valorize technological results with the relevant IP rights.
Technology is crucial for enhancing energy business sustainability. Technological Innovation Process is the base of a Company's Technology Plan, defining positioning, goals of innovation, methods, projects, time-to-market, human and financial resources necessary to ensure competitiveness and sustainability of the business.
Along the maturity roadmap of Technology Innovation, six main steps can be identified: Needs Identification, Idea Generation, Development, Industrialization, Deployment and Follow-up.
There are different models to pursue such roadmap and to valorize the intellectual property generated along all value chain of single technological applications or developments, in particular during the first phase of innovation.
