MAY 2009 - n°1

01/05/2009

Nowadays, we have all come to believe that innovation and R&D are strategic issues. Sources of profitability and competitiveness are the essential components for company growth in a world economy. This trend requires certain unavoidable qualities from all those parties involved: reactivity, flexibility, adaptability, ability to train, to invest, select and appropriate outside knowledge, as well as to carry out steps on a partnership basis, both in France and beyond its frontiers. The information economy is now under way and nothing more can stop it...

CONTENTS:

Region

• Nord-Pas de Calais: priority given to innovation
• J'innove en Nord-Pas de Calais: supporting innovation and promoting research

News

• International week 2009: meetings with experts
• Call for proposals: promoting the formation of innovative companies
• 3POD european project: daring to design

Research

• IEMN: visible and attractive internationally
• UCCS and LCOM laboratories: winners of the prize for innovation and research development

I-Trans, innovation at the heart of transport

• Yves RAVALARD: co-operation and sustainable development
• ARIA, AIF and Euralogistic: indispensible partners
• CRITT M2A: the car on the test bench
• ADES: 3-dimensional metrology

Process of innovation

• Plasmobio: cross-border co-operation at the service of health
• Innovation management: get organised to innovate

Other fields

• CD2E: revitalizing the environment sector

International relations

• The SUPINFOCOM Group is exporting to India
• EUROMASTER® labelling
• The region is co-operating

International relations

• The SUPINFOCOM Group is exporting to India
• EUROMASTER® labelling
• The region is co-operating

Partnership offers & requests