Research and development is a core part of our business strategy, with R&D investment representing over 15% of our annual turnover. This keeps Eurodecision in the forefront of several major fields in operational research.

We make it a priority to participate in French and European joint R&D projects, and also belong to several competitive clusters and scientific associations.
Further, our participation in numerous projects within the Research and Innovation departments of large industrial groups (e.g. Air Liquide, EDF, Eurocontrol, Gaz de France Suez, Renault and SNCF) contributes to our high level of R&D. We also provide other services - such as those for the Air France Operational Research group - that focus on optimisers for corporate resources, and on utilising the latest innovations in the field.
Eurodecision works in close collaboration with university research laboratories such as those at Ecole Centrale in Paris, Ecole des Mines in Nantes, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris Dauphine University, and Ecole Centrale in Lille. 

Competitive clusters

Eurodecision is a member of three competitive clusters: SYSTEM@TIC, ADVANCITY, and NOV@LOG.

SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION is a world-class French cluster at the forefront of the digital revolution, which brings together 200 key players in industry, academics, and government agencies for joint R&D projects, in four value-added application markets: Telecoms, Security-Defence, Automobile-Transportation, and System Design and Development Tools.
ADVANCITY, the green technologies and sustainable cities cluster, is a catalyst for innovation in the greater Paris region, providing: opportunities for green growth, accentuated by the Grenelle de l’Environnement process, which concern the 73 businesses in the cluster, these cluster businesses including 11 world-leading companies and over fifty small and medium-sized enterprises and industries; producers and operators in the energy, transport, environment, civil engineering and construction fields; engineering companies; and companies providing services to local authorities and to industry an exceptional melting pot of skills, with over 150 laboratories, the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Ocean (MEEDDM)’s major scientific organisations, top-flight schools and universities in and around Paris, and private research facilities.
Nov@log, the competitive cluster for logistics, plays a key role in making businesses more competitive and in developing innovation. It aims at developing both the services and supply chain systems of tomorrow, and offering international visibility to local supply chain research expertise.

Joint R&D projects

Eurodecision has increased its participation in joint R&D projects for over a decade.

European projects

• CHIC2 (1996-1998): ESPRIT project for large-scale combinatorial optimisation - spin-offs include a methodology and column generation tools and techniques
• OPTIFLUX (2003-2004): EUREKA project which developed new tools for generating transportation plans and an opening to Web technologies
• ECLIPS (2006-2009): STI project for optimising multi-level manufacturing of products with short life spans, and for finding innovative sales forecasting methods when launching new products.

French projects 

• METEOR (2000-2001): an R&D project for developing planning tools for telecoms networks
• CRISTAL (2004): PREDIT 3 project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through an improved logistical organisation for transportation
• POPS (2007-2009): supported by the SYSTEM@TIC cluster, the POPS (PetaOperations Per Second) project was intended to develop a new generation of high-power Petaflop-capacity applications and to validate the associated servers (access to high performance computing  (HPC) as well as to parallel and distributed computing)
• OPSIM (2008-2010): an FUI project supported by the SYSTEM@TIC cluster, the OPSIM (OPtimisation de SIMulations pour la conception = "Optimisation of Simulation Designs") project involves the optimisation of robust designs
• ACTIVOPT (2009-2010): supported by the SYSTEM@TIC cluster, this FEDER project designs and develops interactive optimisation tools for robust designs
• CSDL (2009-2012): this FUI project, approved by the SYSTEM@TIC cluster, aims to design a collaborative decision-support environment
• SYSLOG (2010): a PREDIT project supported by the NOV@LOG cluster

Scientific associations

Eurodecision is a member of several scientific associations:

• ROADEF, the French Society for Operational Research and Decision Support
• AFIA, the French Association for Artificial intelligence
• British Operational Research Society
• EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies