News : Innovation & Society

Once again this year, CEA Tech startups have brought home a bumper crop of awards in the i-Lab national competition for innovative tech startups. A total of €820,000 will go to the following four projects: EnWires, founded in 2016, is developing new electrode materials for Li-ion batteries leveraging high-quality-silicon nanowires Sublimed, founded in 2015, is […] >>

Semicon Europa first came to Grenoble in 2014, attracting record numbers of exhibitors and visitors. Semicon Europa 2016, to be held on October 25–27 at Alpexpo, has some high standards to live up to. And the pressure is on! A number of other cities in Europe would love the chance to host this leading trade […] >>

The EXPERIMENTA art, science, and technology fair, to be held on October 6–8, will feature around 20 installations combining art and technology in truly novel ways. Visitors will get a chance to discover new experiences and performances, from going “inside” a drawing or seeing the pages of a book “grow” to using bacteria to generate […] >>

The Greater Grenoble Area is working with three other urban areas—Tsukuba, Fujisawa, and Bristol—on the BigClouT project, a joint initiative between the EU and Japan that Leti is coordinating. The project aims to develop and test applications for smart cities on an open software platform capable of processing massive amounts of data from sensors (weather, […] >>

For the third time in five years the High Level Forum, initiated by GIANT in 2012, will be held in Grenoble. International innovation decision-makers from research, education, industry, and government will come together to foster stronger cooperation. Around 100 attendees from 25 innovation campuses in Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East are expected. […] >>