News : Innovation & Society

The second innovation marketing conference (Rencontres du Marketing de l’Innovation) will be held at MINATEC on Thursday, November 13. The first edition of the event, held in 2012, was a huge success, bringing in 350 attendees (50% from industry). This year, the CEA and Grenoble Ecole de Management will organize a new event on the […] >>

Florian Pebay-Peyroula, head of Leti’s Communicating Objects and Systems Security Lab: « “We have to do more to fight against counterfeit circuits” » Leti was involved in the ENIAC TOISE (Trusted Computing for European Embedded Systems) project, which was completed in April 2014. What was the outcome? The project involved seventeen partners from industry and […] >>

MINATEC Director Jean-Charles Guibert was part of a delegation that travelled from Grenoble to Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Laboratory for NanoTechnology on September 19. The lab, located on the Vietnam National University campus, is emblematic of MINATEC’s long-term commitment to the LNT—since 2004 MINATEC has donated equipment, run […] >>

What do fabless semiconductors, gallium-nitride-on-silicon power transistors, electrostimulation patches to treat pain, and a motion-powered energy generator have in common? All four are MINATEC R&D projects that won awards in July (along with three other non-MINATEC projects) in France’s 16th national tech start-up contest, now called “I-Lab.” A total of five Grenoble-grown projects (eVaderis, Exagan, […] >>

For the first time ever, the MINATEC Science Fair, held during France’s national Science Week, will welcome elementary-school students. On Thursday, October 9, five elementary-school classes will come to the Science Fair, discovering booths with activities designed just for them. As always, the goal is to spark interest in science from the earliest possible age. […] >>