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INRIA : A major stakeholder in technology transfer
27/04/2010
As the most recent of the eight INRIA centres (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), the Lille-Nord Europe centre is vital to the region in promoting research and innovation in information and communication sciences and technologies. It brings together 200 scientists divided into 12 project teams and already has 80 partnerships in place with the region’s industrial stakeholders.
There are plans, by 2013, to double the size of the centre’s premises and teams and increase the workforce in order to bring it in line with the other centres. As part of this, a new 4,000-squaremetre building is under construction beside the current one, and a 175-square-metre demonstration platform is to be launched in February 2010 at the EuraTechnologies site.
At national level, industrial partnerships and technology transfers are a signifi cant element of INRIA policy. In addition, research teams collaborate regularly with major corporations including Thalès, France Telecom and EDF. At the same time, INRIA is greatly involved in work supporting startups and involving transfers to innovative SMEs.
However, the Lille centre’s initiatives have a specific European focus. A team called Ateams, located at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, was thus set up in June 2009. Headed up by a Dutch scientist specialising in the analysis and modification of major software packages, the team focuses the resources of the two bodies around this topic.
And by way of a bit of news, the traditional INRIA-Industry Forums were held on 12 June 2009, helping to illustrate the way in which products developed through research can have application in retail and distance selling.
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