Participative partners
Businesses
Atos Worldgrid™ is a subsidiary of Atos Origin specializing in smart energy management technologies. Founded in H2 2010, Atos Worldgrid™ plans to generate annual revenue of €300 million by 2014. The company is currently involved in several projects, including the Linky smart meter for ERDF, which will initially concern 300,000 utility subscribers and ultimately be installed in 35 million homes.
Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing, and local professional services. With operations in more than 30 countries, Capgemini helps customers innovate, transform their organizations, and boost performance. The company offers a broad array of services that can be deployed coherently across far-reaching projects. Capgemini works with customers to determine and implement effective strategies and helps them get the most out of technology. Capgemini has 100,000 employees in Europe.
Global energy management specialist Schneider Electric provides energy efficiency solutions capable of generating energy savings of up to 30%. The company operates in more than 100 countries worldwide and has more than 100,000 employees.
Research institutes
INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control. The Institute counts more than 3,100 researchers working every day in five research fields to solve the information and communication science and technology (ICST) challenges of tomorrow’s society.
Orange Labs is one of the world’s largest centres for telecommunications research and today focuses on private research in response to customer needs. The centre continues to leverage multiple partnerships across the Grenoble high-tech ecosystem to harness expertise from academia, industry, and scientific research. The Orange Research and Development Centre in Meylan, which employs more than 300 people, is one of the company’s 17 R&D centres. It is also home to many of the innovations that end up in consumer products, including handwriting-recognition and touch-sensitive technologies, digital scent technology to enhance the internet experience, multi-sensory visualization, remote medical data transmission, electronic voting, communicating apparel, and online travel.
Universities and labs
Grenoble University counts 6 colleges, 129 research labs, 61,000 students, and 3,500 PhD candidates enrolled in 14 doctoral schools. Grenoble University colleges are involved in three competitive clusters.
Within NEAR, several establishments are particularly implied(involved) in the project, of among which:
- UJF : University of Science, technology and health. With 5,000 students and 50 laboratories, UJF is part of the inner circle of top 200 world universities for research. http://www.ujf-grenoble . com /
- INP Grenoble : with job training of engineers focused on 22 industries (over 40 000 graduates in the world), 30 major laboratories and a range of services and research and development in the renowned scientific and industrial community worldwide, Grenoble INP collects six engineering schools deemed open and internationally. http://www.grenoble-inp.fr/
- ENSIMAG is the University’s school of computer science and applied mathematics, and France’s top ranking school in these fields. ENSIMAG has pioneered advances in information processing. The school is distinctly multicultural, and all students are required to speak English; 95% of students speak a second language http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr
- PILSI : (Pôle International Logiciels et Systèmes Intelligent) is the International Cluster for Smart Systems & Software. The cluster’s purpose is to attract the best students, researchers, and businesses to Grenoble and to build strong research-based partnerships between academic research and industry to ensure the transfer of new innovations from the lab to the marketplace. .
http://mi2s.imag.fr/pilsi.html
Competitive clusters
ARDI Rhône-Alpes is the Regional Economic Development and Innovation Agency. ARDI’s role is to leverage innovation to drive sustainable economic growth for businesses in the region. ARDI works mainly with businesses that have already rolled out innovation-driven growth models (currently 3,000 businesses) as well as with businesses that devote substantial resources to innovation.
The Rhône-Alpes regional software industry is built on a strong foundation of labs, schools, and professional associations, and represents 500 software makers, 9,000 jobs, 2,000 researchers, 50 labs, and 8 universities. ClusterEDIT brings all of these stakeholders together around common goals to promote the emergence of collaborative tools and bolster business competitiveness.
http://www.cluster-edit.org
Minalogic, which supports innovation and specialized expertise in intelligent miniaturized solutions for industry, was granted official competitive cluster status by the French government in July 2005. Today, the cluster’s reach stretches across the Rhône-Alpes region through collaborative projects (involving a minimum of two manufacturers and one research centre) that contribute to creating, developing, and manufacturing products using micro and nanotechnology and systems-on-chip. Since its inception, Minalogic has certified and secured funding for 143 projects. The cluster currently counts 189 members. http://www.minalogic.com/
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