News : Innovation & Society

Tony Prézeau, Head of the Bibliometrics Department, CEA Market Research Division: “Innovation marketing demands agility and a willingness to challenge the status quo”   Why does technological research need innovation marketing? Technology push is not enough, as evidenced by the fact that 85% of innovations are market failures. This occurs for several reasons, from the […] >>

Taking a cultural tour of the MINATEC campus has probably never crossed your mind. Maybe now it will! The Grenoble-Alps University community created the “Campus des Arts” program in 2017 to promote the cultural interest of MINATEC and other sites. The program’s website lists some 40 works of art on Grenoble’s campuses and offers up […] >>

For the seventh year running, Clarivate Analytics (formerly Reuters), has ranked the CEA among the top 100 global innovators. Only two other research organizations are on the list: Fraunhofer in Germany and ITRI in Taiwan. The rest of the ranking is populated by companies, including six in France: Alstom, Arkema, Safran, Saint Gobain, Thales, and […] >>

Leti will organize a day-long event for the tenth anniversary of the Heterogeneous Technology Alliance (HTA) on April 24 in Brussels. The strategic alliance brings together four top-tier European research institutes Fraunhofer, CSEM, VTT, and Leti. HTA’s members meet regularly to discuss their latest research, set up joint projects, and prepare joint proposals for EU […] >>

In February Leti presented a functional prototype of an 11 mm x 7 mm CMOS image sensor whose unique feature is that it is curved. The innovation could lead to a spectacular reduction in the size and complexity of lenses. It also opens the door to a whole new breed of microelectronics where the flat […] >>