Partners

Source essentielle de compétitivité, l’innovation est au cœur des priorités de Bpifrance, depuis le soutien de la R&D jusqu’au renforcement du capital des entreprises innovantes.

REI (Réseau entreprendre Isère) is a business network. Their objectives are :

• The support of business leaders. The commitment of these business leaders within Undertake Isere Network is powered by their passion for entrepreneurship and desire to pass it on to new entrepreneurs in a spirit of economic citizenship. Thus, members volunteer their time to study the project, participate in committees of commitment, support the winners and animate their association… This represents more than 70,000 volunteer hours per year.
• A financing in the form of unsecured loans, particularly interesting for their leverage other funding, including banking.

BNP Paribas supports all your business projects to make your business grow. Are you established on the French market or do you want to grow internationally? Would you like to benefit from local support? Whatever your sector of activity, your geographical location or the size of your company, our experts will advise you and help you to make your plans a reality.

The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. It is a government-funded institute established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA has two main objectives: to become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future.

Leti is an institute of the CEA, a French research-and-technology organization with activities in energy, IT, healthcare, defense and security. Leti is focused on creating value and innovation through technology transfer to its industrial partners. It specializes in nanotechnologies and their applications, from wireless devices and systems, to biology, healthcare and photonics. NEMS and MEMS are at the core of its activities. In addition to Leti’s 1,700 employees, there are more than 250 students involved in research activities, which makes Leti a mainspring of innovation expertise. Leti’s portfolio of 1,880 families of patents helps strengthen the competitiveness of its industrial partners.

The Lyonbiopôle competitiveness cluster is now positioned as the leader and one-stop shop for health in the Rhône-Alpes region.

ParisTech is a collective entity that includes 12 of the most prestigious French institutes of higher education and research. MINES ParisTech is one of the founding members of this research and higher education cluster of excellence, composed of several French Grandes Écoles (executive engineering and business schools). ParisTech covers a broad spectrum of disciplines in sciences, technology and management. The high staff-to-student ratio, the extensive range of scientific disciplines it offers, and the quality research at ParisTech attract the best students and scientists.

The Cancéropôle Lyon Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (CLARA) is an initiative launched and financed by the public authorities (National Cancer Institute, local authorities and the European Regional Development Fund). It is part of the national cancer plans and aims to develop oncology research in the Rhône-Alpes and Auvergne regions.

SATTs (Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert de Technologies) are companies created by several public research establishments within the framework of the Programme des Investissements d’Avenir (PIA), within the « Valorisation » action, and are intended to bring together all the valorisation teams of university sites. The SATTs, supported by the collective commitment of their shareholder research institutions, have access to the skills and inventions of public researchers on their territory and rely on dedicated professional teams to detect and evaluate these inventions and support them until they are transferred to a company.

Linksium helps to convert the results of public research into concrete applications to meet the needs of businesses and citizens.

Specialized in higher education and research in management, HEC Paris offers a complete and unique range of educational programs for the leaders of tomorrow: Masters programs, MBA, Ph.D., HEC Executive MBA, TRIUM Global Executive MBA, and Executive Education open-enrolment and custom programs. Founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a founding member of ParisTech, HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 115 professors, more than 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers and executives in training every year.

I-lab 2014 : 16th national competition for the creation of innovative technology companies. Genel was honoured with an award from the French Ministry of Research.