About us

Our Mission

We provide the infrastructure that accelerates innovation
Corporate Hangar was born in 2017 to address externally the issue of innovation in Prysmian Group.
Corporate Hangar embraces the philosophy of open innovation allowing us to increase the speed and scope of innovation. The core of innovation is creating results by doing new things. Innovation is about action – not only thinking about challenges but acting on them in a different way. Innovation is not necessarily about introducing a groundbreaking idea to the whole world, but instead about introducing a new idea to your team, unit, or region. Ultimately, innovation should make a measurable difference, and create value that aligns with the strategic goals.

Corporate Hangar complements existing initiatives for open innovation.

Our innovation model

We believe that the core of innovation is creating results by doing new things. Innovation is about action – not only thinking about challenges in the company in a new way but acting on them in a different way.

Innovation is not necessarily about introducing a ground-breaking idea to the whole world, but instead also about introducing a new idea to another team, unit, or region.

Ultimately, innovation should make a measurable difference, and create value that aligns with the strategic goals of our clients.

Corporate Hangar provides the support for Prysmian Group – and our other customers - to achieve this kind of impactful innovation.

That's why we:
  1. Start by defining with our clients their innovation sandbox
  2. Then we scout, select and validate innovative ideas
  3. We build start-ups and manage them to scale
  4. Finally we return start-ups to the client organization supporting their integration

Innovation strategy

We support the management in selecting promising ideas from the pool of innovative projects submitted. We assemble a team of motivated employees who will be actively engaged in the project and exposed to a vast innovation ecosystem.

Fly-in zone

With our tested «one pager» methodology we formalize the ideas and identify the business model that may support their development. We circulate and discuss them with internal and external experts to facilitate the selection of the best potential projects.

Runway

Leveraging on our diverse team and the support of the client we develop pre- and prototypes with a lean and agile approach, engaging with clients to get early validation.

Cruise

A start-up can be the most effective way to develop a new project outside the corporate constraints: we set it up, staff it, and accelerate until it is mature enough to be re-inserted in the company’s business.

Working together

How we generate value

Venture building

Making innovation happen with a pragmatic approach
Innovation already happens in many places across large companies: we complement and support existing initiatives, without competing with the teams in place.
We implement innovation (open innovation, investments and partnerships with start-ups, ...) mobilizing the internal and external resources and capabilities needed. With our team of technology and business experts we execute innovation projects sensibly and realistically, in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
We look for projects that have a commercialization horizon of approximately 2-4 years.

Talent retention & development

Offering an attractive career option to the company’s talents
The company can second a group of entrepreneurial, high-potential employees, to Corporate Hangar’s offices: here they get to interact with our innovation ecosystem, developing their innovative ideas.
With high exposure to the top management and its diverse team, Corporate Hangar becomes an attractive post, and helps creating a talent pool with a different set of skills.





Innovation scouting

Discover and embrace tomorrow’s technologies
With our extensive network of partners, we always keep an eye on the latest innovation trends. We support clients to identify technologies, innovations and new business models with high disruption potential at early-stage to better direct R&D, investment, and resources allocation.

Business Intelligence

Industry knowledge informing the innovation strategy
By partnering with a few selected customers and having their talents joining our team, we are able to develop deep industry knowledge understanding the needs of our partner’s customers and suppliers. This gives us an expert eye on their ecosystem to better support them in defining their innovation strategy.

Labs & workshops

A new opportunity to engage with clients and partners
We design and manage customer- or supplier-centric workshops, labs and events to promote open innovation, identify common challenges and consolidate the relationship between our customers and their clients. Through our network of companies, start-ups, universities, and research institutions, we connect organizations to create new business opportunities.