Partners exhibitors - 2010

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is one of the six strongest banks in the world* and the largest bank in the eurozone by deposits. With a presence in more than 80 countries and more than 200,000 employees, including 160,000 in Europe, BNP Paribas is a leading European provider of financial services on a worldwide scale. It ranks highly in its three core activities: Retail Banking, Investment Solutions and Corporate & Investment Banking. In Retail Banking, the Group has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg. BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated model across the Europe-Mediterranean zone and boasts a large network in the United States. BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the leader in consumer lending in Europe. In its Corporate & Investment Banking and Investment Solutions activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in Europe and solid and fast-growing businesses in Asia.

* Rated AA by Standard & Poor's i.e. 3rd rating level on a scale of 22.

GIANT, a campus of innovation on a global scale

Leveraging their extraordinary asset – the scientific “peninsula” -, Grenoble’s scientific and higher-educational institutions – the CEA, CNRS, EMBL, ESRF, GEM, Grenoble INP, ILL, UJF – have created the GIANT* project.

The objective is to respond to the three major societal stakes: Information, Healthcare and Energy. To accomplish this, GIANT focuses on three centers of excellence: MINATEC (Information), GreEn (Energy), and NanoBio (Healthcare), thereby favoring synergies between researchers, technology platforms, and higher education and industry, and allowing for the streamlining of innovation processes.

The centers of excellence benefit from the expertise of multi-skill poles consisting of fundamental research, characterization, and technology management.

Finally, the elaboration of an original urban model enhances the project in such a way that the site is now internationally recognized for its scientific excellence as well as its quality of life.

*GIANT: Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies

Created in 1991, INPG Entreprise SA is a private limited company with a working capital of 1 000 000 €, and a subsidiary and commercial structure of the Grenoble INP Group. INPG Entreprise SA possesses the skills and means dedicated to growing innovative businesses, and also participates in the valorization of the Group’s research activities.

INPG Entreprise SA concentrates its efforts in the 6 areas of expertise of its major shareholder:

Energy
Environment
Information and communication
Materials
Micro and nanotechnologies
Production systems

Its main mission revolves around three complementary activities:

Research contracts
Valorisation
Venture backing

ARDI – Regional Development and Innovation Agency

ARDI Rhone-Alps contributes to the sustainable economic development of regional companies through innovation.This agency, created by the Rhone-Alps Regional Council and the State, is made up of seven departments: Design, Materials and Procedures, Digital, Performance, Healthcare, Network Synergy, and Electronic Systems.

ARDI gives priority to regional companies (start-ups, SMEs, large organizations) that are already working on or wish to start working on economic development through innovation. ARDI’s 30 consultants assist these organizations in developing short, mid and long term innovation projects.

ARDI’s activities are oriented around three key skill sets: economic intelligence, project engineering and strategic partnering and networking to offer services that are structured around information, orientation and accompaniment.

Looking for a way to access the Swiss market in the area of clean technologies? It’s now possible through CleanTechAlps, the new cluster and your gateway into western Switzerland for all clean technologies. This platform is active in seven specific sectors: solar, small hydraulics, recycling, water, smart grid, industrial ecology and building energy. Its primary objective is to unite and create value for all the institutes, industries and services that contribute to the protection and conservation of natural resources. If you are looking for an academic or commercial partner in Switzerland, contact us or come visit us a tour booth!

bioPmed (www.biopmed.eu) is the new Italian innovation cluster on bio and medical technologies. Created thanks to Regione Piemonte, it gathers formally more of 60 private and public organisations. It is managed by Science Park Bioindustry Park Silvano Fumero (www.bioindustrypark.eu). Goal of bioPmed is to boost the development of life science at local level.

The cluster is focusing on 2 main trajectories:

New technologies for healt-care (cell & molecular therapies, molecular diagnostics and imaging)
Innovative technologies for med-tech

bioPmed strategy for growth is based on partnerships and in such direction e.g. a strategic cooperative agreement has been signed with LyonBiopole.

PITER PROJECT

Within the Region of Knowledge FP7 program, PITER is a two years collaborative project dedicated to strengthen the emerging renewable energy market between Rhône Alps and Piedmont regions. The Pôle de Compétitivité TENERRDIS, based in Grenoble, is involved in this program with four others partners: the cluster Environment Park, the two regions, and Alma Consulting. PITER aims to develop a proposal for a «Joint Action Plan» which will define a systemic approach covering environmental, economic, technological factors. It will focus efforts on R&D and industrial development to reduce CO2 emissions, and improve our quality of life by creating new jobs and reducing health problems.

PITER is thus participating in the economic development of the Rhône Alpes and Piedmont and endeavours to promote and strengthen cooperation between the two regions.

INRIA, National leader in technology transfers

INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry. For over 40 years, INRIA has been actively participating in economic and social mutations tied to information and communication sciences and technologies (ICST). Along with its academic and industrial partners, INRIA is an international leader in fundamental research and cutting-edge technology development. INRIA is made up of eight research centers, where 3,150 scientists, working directly for the Institute or its partner organizations such as the CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools, form over 174 joint research project-teams. INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and company inception in the field of ICST – over 100 companies have been founded to date. INRIA’s goal is to become the national leader in ICST transfer, in conjunction with the country’s regional organizations.

Europe’s top center in micro-nanotechnologies, Grenoble-Isere is also home to varied industrial leaders such as Schneider Electric, Caterpillar, BD, HP, STMicroelectronics, Xerox, Roche Diagnostics etc.

Innovation is firmly imprinted in the Region’s DNA, with world-class industrials clusters such as Minalogic (micro & nanotechnologies and smart solutions), Tenerrdis (renewable energies), Axelera (chemistry and environment), Lyonbiopole (biotechnologies).

Technological investments of world class stature, a diversified industrial fabric, an internationally renowned scientific environment benefit as well of an outstanding natural setting and an exceptional quality of life.

Grenoble-Isere, an innovative ecosystem driving technological breakthroughs and addressing society’s issues: energy, health and communication.

Partners exhibitors - 2010

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