News : MINATEC

In mid-February French Minister for Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso broke ground on the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma expansion slated for delivery in mid-2015. The campus expansion project includes a seven-story building—with classrooms, labs, a student lounge, and a tech transfer center for second-year student projects—and a 500-seat auditorium with enough room for an […] >>

Since January, MINATEC has spun off four start-ups, with an additional two just over the horizon. While this is a new record for the innovation campus, it is largely to chance! The new companies are: ISKN, maker of the iSketchnote smart iPad cover that digitizes handwritten notes and drawings Pollen Technology, a specialist in data […] >>

As part of the inaugural edition of FADEx, the French-American Doctoral Exchange seminar, the French Embassy in Houston organized a trip to France for a group of ten US Ph.D. students in nanocharacterization. The visiting Ph.D. students attended lectures on the latest developments in nanometric chemical analysis in Toulouse before travelling to Grenoble on March […] >>

Industrial conveyors are often made up of an assembly of several modules. So, it is not always easy to check that the goods being moved make it to their destination without getting lost or damaged. Leti has developed an original new way to solve this problem. The device, the same size and weight of the […] >>

LMGP is pleased to be hosting Hironori Yamazoe, a researcher from the University of Tsukuba on sabbatical in Grenoble since mid-March. Yamazoe is an expert in microtechniques used to selectively deposit proteins on biomaterials—a process that could be used to build musculoskeletal tissue. And on July 1st, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Amy Wagoner-Johnson […] >>