Accelerating innovation Transforming our societies
Developing, marketing and adopting cutting-edge technologies is a major challenge. Numana offers environments and experimental laboratories to facilitate access to the tools that will shape our future.
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and social innovation
At Numana, we support innovation within our ecosystems through a unique approach. Every project we develop contributes to building a resilient, sustainable and interconnected ecosystem that encourages the testing, sharing and adoption of emerging technologies.
As a macro-accelerator of technology, we bring organizations together to achieve 4 objectives:
- Accelerate the development of technology products and services
- Accelerate technology adoption
- Develop a highly specialized workforce
- Attract foreign investment
What sets Numana apart from other technology organizations is its unique approach. At the heart of its approach is a chain of concrete actions: starting with a strategic monitoring (which serves as our foresight), to create think tanks, leading to the deployment of innovative and structuring technological projects. Each stage of this process is supported by promotion actions and an active contribution to the development of public policies and talents.
Together with our partners, we act as a catalyst for innovation, creating greater value for the technology industry and for all of Quebec.
We work with all ecosystems and industries, bringing together the different players that make them up (major players, academics, small organizations, etc.) around concepts, policies, innovative technological projects and emerging business models.
Our organization is committed to developing tomorrow’s technologies for a sustainable and positive impact on society in the future.
The Numana process
Strategic intelligence
Think tanks
Real-life experimentation laboratories
This first stage focuses on a proactive search for innovations and the anticipation of technological trends, in order to pick up on weak signals, foresee future business models and provide monitoring reports on new technology to the ecosystems we support.
Through exclusive events and meetings with governmental decision-makers, Numana fosters information sharing and reflection on tomorrow’s challenges, while connecting innovation players at provincial, national and international levels. These events, and those of our partners, also enable us to showcase the wealth of Quebec’s technology industry.
These activities form the basis of our ecosystem support for innovation, technology adoption and digital transformation.
Our Numana think tanks are the second pillar of our vision. Before thinking about digitally transforming an ecosystem, they are a way of thinking about the potential impact of leading-edge technology on the scale of the different ecosystems it will impact. These spaces for reflection allow an in-depth analysis of technological challenges and emerging business models, fostering a cross-sector, collaborative approach to anticipating future issues.
Independent and objective, our think Tanks bring together experts from the academic world, as well as from large and small companies, to produce reports that serve as guidelines for decision-makers. By identifying concrete courses of action, they help guide the development of future projects and direct innovation strategies.
These reports offer valuable insights for organizations wishing to remain at the cutting-edge of technological evolution.
The final stage of the Numana process consists of offering concrete projects that enable real-life experimentation (experimentation laboratories).
We set up initiatives that bring together several ecosystems to experiment with emerging technologies under real-life conditions in open environments. These are what we call real-life experimentation laboratories for innovation.
What would be living laboratories in the field of social innovation, or test beds in the world of engineering are, to us, the same thing. They are spaces for technological and/or social experimentation, organized to facilitate product development and the adoption of emerging technologies and their impact on society.
This enables us to offer a form of support for digital transformation and innovation to an entire ecosystem, by reducing risks for research and development projects around costly technologies.
Our laboratories in real-life conditions
for innovation
Join the Numana ecosystem
Joining Numana means becoming part of a committed community that accelerates technological innovation and transforms industries. As a partner or explorer member, you gain access to strategic opportunities to collaborate with key players, boost your visibility and actively contribute to high-impact projects.
Whether you want to play a driving role in our initiatives, contribute your expertise to a specific project, test your technologies on our test beds or simply stay connected to emerging trends, your commitment will enable you to make a concrete contribution to innovation and assert your influence within the Quebec technology ecosystem.