Unleashing Sustainable Innovation
Discover how Virtual Twin technologies can help you rethink your products, processes and even business models to realize radically new sustainable innovations.
Unify Both Macro and Micro Views of the Critical Materials Lifecycle
One platform to unlock the best of both worlds for complete value network clarity.
Sustainable Innovation: What It Means for Businesses?
Sustainable innovation involves implementing innovative solutions to tackle environmental and social challenges, considering economic, environmental, and social aspects. Dassault Systèmes offers a way to perform trade-offs among environmental impact, business, performance, and quality to enable sustainable products and services, sustainable business models and operations, and empower sustainable organizations.
Enabling our clients to solve the biggest challenges
Developing new products, new processes, and even new business models, are some of the biggest challenges to stay on track with sustainability imperatives. They also represent the biggest business opportunities for all industries today.
Decarbonization aims at reducing emissions throughout the product and service’s life cycle and across the full value chain.
The circular economy is gaining significant traction as a sustainable approach to resource management. By adopting principles such as reducing, reusing, and recycling, organizations and consumers alike can minimize waste, maximize resource utilization, and contribute to the restoration of natural ecosystems.
Low-carbon energy generates substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions over their entire lifecycle.
Our well-being - along with that of the entire ecosystem - depends on biodiversity. And our economy is no exception.
Sustainable Development: A Path to Growth and Resilience
Sustainable innovation is crucial in tackling the global climate crisis, allowing businesses to develop environmentally friendly products and processes while staying competitive. By embedding sustainability into their products and services and how they operate organizationally, companies can significantly reduce their carbon footprint and overall environmental impact. Sustainable innovation ensures regulatory compliance and provides a strategic advantage in a market increasingly driven by environmental responsibility. Additionally, it can foster long-term economic growth by lowering operational costs and enhancing efficiency, positioning organizations for success in a rapidly evolving business landscape.
Yet making necessary transformations is not easy. Organizations must understand the obstacles up front in order to address them proactively.
Virtual Twins for a Sustainable Future
Dassault Systèmes’ corporate purpose is to provide business and people with 3DEXPERIENCE universes to imagine sustainable innovations. As such, while maintaining its commitment to other SDGs, Dassault Systèmes strives towards ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns (SDG12) and empowering the workforce of the future with quality education (SDG4).
Reinforcing its commitment, Dassault Systèmes became an official partner for World Engineering Day 2025, an International Day proclaimed by UNESCO.
Empowering Sustainability Initiatives in Business Through Technology
We strongly believe that virtual universes will be a key enabler for our customers—and the world—to imagine, design, test and accelerate innovation across all sectors: in infrastructure, in manufacturing and in life sciences.
By driving continuous innovation, our technology helps organizations provide consumers, patients and citizen with new solutions, facilitating the transition toward a circular economy while securing competitiveness and resilience. Additionally, we enable companies to future-proof their operations by ensuring a sustainable transformation, mitigating risks, and adopting new business models that support long-term success.
Explore the measurable sustainability impacts of our solutions
Dassault Systèmes is supporting its customers in their sustainability transition. Explore the measurable impact our innovative solutions through these certified customer success stories.
How Leading Companies Use 3DEXPERIENCE to Drive Sustainable Innovation
Discover how leading companies are using our 3DEXPERIENCE virtual universes to imagine, design, and test the radically new products, materials, and processes critically needed to create a more sustainable economy.
Innovating for a Sustainable Future
Explore our projects to reimagine how to transform your business by integrating product innovation with sustainable design practices and reduce environmental impacts.
- The Time to Act Is Now
- Positive Home Project
- Transform Infrastructure & Cities
- The Sustainability Cockpit for Cities
The critical role of Virtual Twins
Discover how Virtual Twin technologies are the most disruptive and efficient answers to help you rethink your products, processes and even business models to realize radically new sustainable innovations.
The Positive Home Project: Designing Eco-Friendly Home Products
Integrate product innovation with sustainable design practices on a single platform to lower a product’s environmental footprint with Sustainable Innovation Intelligence
The Infrastructors
Transforming Infrastructure & Cities for Your Business and Their Future.
The Sustainability and Resilience Cockpit for Cities
Transform data into action to plan smarter and mitigate climate change with the city virtual twin.
FAQ on sustainable innovation
Sustainable innovation is important because it is essential to addressing climate change and ensuring a viable future for both society and businesses. Without action, global temperatures could rise by 4°C, leading to severe consequences such as biodiversity loss, food production challenges, and demographic shifts. Governments and organizations are pushing for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, requiring businesses to boost their sustainability efforts and reduce their environmental impacts. Companies that fail to meet their environmental goals and innovate sustainably risk falling behind as regulations tighten and economies shift toward sustainability. Transforming industries and economies through sustainable innovation is crucial for long-term environmental and business resilience.
Environmental awareness isn’t the only reason that organizations are looking to transform. Various factors are inspiring them to develop more sustainable products and services including:
- Customer and investors increasing demands for sustainable products, transparency, and ESG-focused operations.
- Regulations are requiring businesses to shift from traditional performance metrics to sustainability KPIs.
- Brand reputation is another key driver, as failing to meet consumers expectations in terms of sustainability can damage public perception.
- Employees also demand more sustainable practices, influencing corporate culture and engagement.
Companies pursuing sustainability initiatives face several challenges, including:
- Lack of early information and measurement challenges – Many organizations cannot assess the environmental impact of a product until development is completed. Without tools to measure sustainability inputs (e.g., material extraction, emissions, recycling) early in the design phase, making necessary changes can be costly or impossible.
- Handling trade-offs in product development – Sustainable materials may compromise product performance, durability, or require design alterations. Historically, sustainability has been a lower priority in these trade-offs, but companies must now integrate it into decision-making.
Addressing these challenges requires robust solutions like life cycle assessment and a shift in corporate mindset toward sustainability-driven innovation.
Customers worldwide benefit from our solutions to realize their vision and deliver sustainable innovations. Discover some of them here.
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