How Grenoble has mastered industry–academia science collaborations

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Despite its small size, the French city’s long history of science and business means it punches above its weight in scientific output.

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It is not just in the areas of electronics and digital technologies that Grenoble outperforms larger French cities. Grenoble Alpes University comes fifth when French universities are ranked by the number of articles that list their researchers as authors in 82 leading natural-science journals in the year from October 2021 to September 2022 by

After the Second World War, physicist and 1970 Nobel prizewinner Louis Néel’s influence helped to turn Grenoble from a quiet provincial backwater into a major European research centre. In 1956, he founded a nuclear research laboratory that would later become part of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission .

Planat’s path to the private sector was eased by RISE, a CNRS start-up creation support programme. It offered him one year of coaching, networking opportunities and advice on areas such as business-plan development, intellectual property and finance. Silent Waves was provided with office space and manufacturing facilities by the Institut Néel, and seed funding from the local branch of Bpifrance, a public investment bank.

 

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