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Inovallée, land of innovation : Rhone Alps / Isère technopole

Innovative companies.
A bridge between research and the industry

A diversified industrial network

Inria, l'un des trois centres centres de recherche d'inovallée
  • Major international groups : Schneider Electric, Capgemini Est, APC by Schneider Electric, Eaton, Atos origin, Silicomp, Applied Material France, Teamlog, etc.
  • Prestigious start-ups : PolySpace Technologies, Teem Photonics, Cogenics Genome Express, etc.
  • SMBs, leaders in their fields : GEA, Tornier, Metrologic Group, Cedrat, etc.
  • Renowned research centres : Orange lab, INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique – National Institute for Computer Science and Control), Sun Microsystems
  • Universities : Ensimag, INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble – Grenoble National Technology Institute)

Strong network of companies/universities/laboratories

Orange Lab, l'un des trois centres centres de recherche d'inovallée
  • Great economic achievements resulting from laboratories in inovallée:
    Kelkoo, PolySpace Technologies
  • Various research contracts in progress : Cogenics Genome Express dedicated 15% of its activity to collaborative research (programmes underway in cancer research with the Inserm (Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médical – National Institute for Health and Medical Research) in Grenoble, the Léon Bérard centre in Lyons and Jean Perrin centre in Clermont Ferrand), since 1980 Cedrat has continued its profitable cooperations with the LEG (Laboratoire d’Électrotechnique de Grenoble – Grenoble Electro-Technical Laboratory) on Flux software development, etc.
  • Strong involvement of ino vallée companies within competitiveness centres : Schneider Electric, Dolphin Intégration, Capgemini Est, PolySpace Technologies, Silicomp, Teamlog, Thales, Xerox are active members of Minalogic. Atos Origin, Cedrat, H3C-Energies and MGE UPS Systems are actively involved within Tenerrdis.
  • Institutions which create the link: ino vallée , the A.U.E.G (Alliance Université Entreprise de Grenoble – Grenoble University Company Alliance), Grilog (Grenoble Isère Logiciel), the Minalogic and Tenerrdis competitiveness centres.

Cutting-edge achievements

les pistolets à peinture électrostatique de Sames
  • Atos Origin is the IT partner of all the Olympic games / Capgemini of the rugby world cup
  • Sames paints Porsche cars in Finland
  • Airbus is fitted with Dolphin Integration integrated circuits
  • GEA is the French leader of motorway tolls with 70% of the network fully equipped
  • Kineka animates Michelin bibendum in real time
  • Cedrat piezoelectric equipment is embedded onboard Rosetta probe and is currently fitted on many satellites