HORIBA Jobin Yvon is committed to serving the scientific and spectroscopy communities. These are fast moving communities, and in order to keep a leading position, innovation is a must. The scientific community is also a major innovation source, and as a consequence it is of foremost importance for HORIBA Jobin Yvon to work with academia. The objective of this paper is to present some of our current innovation practices in HORIBA Jobin Yvon, that combine a variety of interactions with academia and internal innovation efforts, to better serve Scientific Instrumentation users.