Air Liquide (AL) recently inaugurated its Paris Innovation Campus on the ‘Plateau de Saclay’. This new Campus illustrates the AL’s open innovation approach, especially on energy transition & environment, healthcare and digital transformation.

It includes AL’s largest R&D Center, a fully renovated 15,000㎡ facility with 48 laboratories and pilot platforms. From 2019, the Campus will also host a deep-tech start-up accelerator.

AL’s new Paris R&D Center has been fully renovated with an investment of €50 million. The facility is the Group’s largest R&D Center and brings together almost 500 people, including 350 researchers, and 48 laboratories as well as pilot platforms to design and test technologies at larger scale.

On this occasion, AL announces that its Campus will host in 2019 a deep-tech start-up accelerator. Not only will AL host start-ups but will grant them access to shared experimental facilities and customized support from AL experts, with the objective to accelerate the industrialisation of their offer.