News : Innovation & Society

The Pint of Science Festival, to be held on May 23, 24, and 25, will invite scientists into local bars to present their research to the general public while sipping a tall, cold beer. This year marks the second edition of the festival, with fifteen events at downtown-Grenoble bars, the student union building (EVE) on […] >>

Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Director, Leti: « Leti appeared in the international press 50 times after CES 2016 »   How did Leti’s trip to the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 go? Leti and the startups that went along with the institute came away with several hundred leads—contacts with representatives of manufacturing companies working in all countries and […] >>

Motion Recall, established at the beginning of 2016 by four partners from Leti and Delta Drone, is developing a GoPro-type action cam with novel virtual reality features. Users can film activities like hang-gliding and mountain climbing and later interact with the video footage, choosing an alternative viewing angle, adding real or fictitious characters to the […] >>

Since 2006 LTM has been working on technologies to control the placement of nanoparticles on a surface. The lab’s reputation has grown so much that it receives numerous outside requests—so many in fact that a startup, Smart Force Technologies, was set up by seven partners, including two of the lab’s former Ph.D. students, in late […] >>

The Clinatec Foundation has set the ambitious fundraising target of €30 million by 2018 to pay for Clinatec’s biomedical research programs in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, motor handicaps, and cancer. And the approach is innovative: Clinatec is appealing to businesses, foundations, and individuals to donate by June 30 of this year […] >>