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What does Inria do for SMEs?
In order to support transfers to SMEs, Inria has established strategic partnerships, particularly with OSEO, as well as a platform of tools and services. How does Inria help SMEs?
David Monteau, innovation manager
Inria-OSEO
Expanding bandwidth between SMEs and the research world
"Alongside OSEO, we are able to offer comprehensive support to our partners, consistent with the coordination of innovation ecosystems by the competitiveness clusters."
Bruno Sportisse, Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation
I-Labs
The I-Labs system boosts technology transfers to SMEs
In order to boost technology transfers to SMEs and SMIs, Inria has established the I-Labs system. The idea is to bring together an Inria project team and a partner SME in a joint laboratory. The two entities define a joint, specific work program lasting two to three years. Incentives are given by Inria to the project team involved, while the SME can receive government assistance to finance its research project (particularly the research tax credit).
SME Club
Inria's club of partner SMEs
Created by Inria in 2009, the "SME Club" boosts computer technology transfers to innovative SMEs. It also supports these businesses in their growth. Established in 2009 by the institute, this new network gives companies the possibility of being on the front line to take advantage of the innovations of public research.
HPC-SME Initiative
Supercomputing within the reach of SMEs
HPC-SME Initiative is a program launched jointly by GENCI, Inria, OSEO, and four global competitiveness clusters. Objective: to facilitate and encourage SME access to high-performance computing (HPC), a luxury often reserved for only large industrial groups. Because it can shorten the time for testing services and products and process large amounts of mixed data, the use of supercomputing allows SMEs to remain aggressive on competitive, changing markets.
