Partnership

Networks in the Île-de-France region

For Inria, technology transfer is not a separate activity from research. In the Institute's eyes, the two feed off each other. On the one hand, technology transfer is the culmination of the knowledge creation process. On the other, constant dialogue with socio-economic players allows us to identify their technology needs and the potential scientific stumbling blocks, and to orient our research policy accordingly.

Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research

Inria is a founder member of the Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research (RTRA) along with the French Atomic Energy Commission, the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Université ParisSud 11, the École Polytechnique and Supélec, who have just been joined by the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and the École Centrale Paris.
All of the project-teams at the Saclay - ÎledeFrance research centre are officially involved in the Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research.
Furthermore, the centre is represented in the organisation's governance by its Head, Nozha Boujemaa, a member of the steering committee, and by Claude Marché and Christine Eisenbeis, members of the programmes committee, as well as Agnès Guerraz, a member of the Digiteo technology transfer committee.
One of the major objectives of the Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research is to strengthen scientific and technological synergies between the research laboratories of its founder and associate members. In this respect, the Inria Saclay - Île-de-France research centre plays a fundamental role: it brings together a number of research teams, the majority of which are working in partnership with the other founder and associate members of the Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research, which naturally gives it a prominent role in the development of these scientific synergies.
Digiteo has developed its own technical and economic maturation programme called OMTE (technical and economic maturation operation). The centre is involved in around ten OMTE projects concerning its teams' technology transfer activities.
Furthermore, since 2005, the Ile-de-France Region has been putting in place research financing systems organised into "Fields of Major Interest" (DIM or "Domaines d'Intérêt Majeur"). The Digiteo Thematic Network for Advanced Research manages the "Complex Systems and Software" DIM for the ÎledeFrance Region, and funds the projects supported within this framework when they reinforce the synergies between research teams and the members of the Thematic Network for Advanced Research.

IncubAlliance

Inria Saclay - Île-de-France has been an associate member of the IncubAlliance incubator since 2005. IncubAlliance supports the creation and development of innovative companies associated with public research. It is the product of the 2005 merger of the Ile-de-France's public incubators IFSI and IdFI, and has been based in Orsay, just south of Paris, since June 2008. IncubAlliance is therefore located at the heart of the "Plateau de Saclay", an area with one of the largest amounts of scientific potential in Europe.

Opticsvalley

Inria Saclay - Île-de-France is a member of Opticsvalley. This association is a network based around a core community of 150 members, and its technology production activities encompass 1,100 businesses, 240 public research laboratories and 40 higher education establishments. The aim of the association is economic development in the Île-de-France region, and Opticsvalley pursues actions dedicated to business. These actions are devised and conducted with a view to offering support services for the development of business activities.

Keywords: Saclay - Île-de-France Partnerships Innovation