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Innovative thinking
Innovation excellence is dynamic. It must be driven by compelling or emerging business needs. It must be timely. It is likely to require expertise from outside the innovator’s enterprise or even sector. Shell Global Solutions is drawing on operational experience gained from supporting clients around the globe and is investing in research programmes with leading universities, governments and private companies to accelerate the innovation process and change the game.
Innovation overview
Innovation is about much more than research performed in laboratories on molecules, though we have made crucial advances in this area. It is also about finding opportunities to enhance value and achieve business objectives in a quicker, cheaper, simpler and more efficient manner. Crucially, the innovation process is complete only when it has created customer value.
Technical centres
We have a global network of technical centres close to our key markets and our wide range of resources from gas to heavy oil. They focus on innovation and development of new technologies and products and supplying technical expertise to our operations.
Working with universities
It can take a long time to build up high-quality, specialist in-house skills in a new research area. And even when those skills are available, you can never have too many sharp minds on a problem. For these reasons, Shell Global Solutions has a history of working with universities around the world.
Developing relationships
In its search to achieve innovation excellence, Shell Global Solutions cuts through organisational barriers to share ideas and improve them with the help of others. However, we also seek the knowledge and best practices of others and are involved in numerous multi-sponsor relationships that are helping to make crucial technological advances.
GameChanger
We believe some people cannot stop dreaming up ideas to make things better. If you have a creative mind and you believe your invention can transform the energy industry, perhaps you should be speaking to us.
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Articles
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