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MINATEC IDEAs® Laboratory is currently running the Cité 2030 project in partnership with GDF Suez. The goal is to design the products and services that will shape tomorrow’s cities. The project partners are working from four development scenarios (which you can see here http://www.gdfsuez.com/en/commitments/reasearch-innovation/city-building-tomorrow/what-will-cities-look-like-in-2030/) to look at how people will use cities for business, work, […] >>

Starting next September, Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma students in the Physics for Nanoscience, FAME International Master’s, and Nuclear and Energy Engineering programs will have an opportunity to complete lab classes and research projects at Grenoble’s large scientific instruments. This totally new initiative is spearheaded by the large instruments (ILL, ESRF, and Leti’s Nanocharacterization Platform) via […] >>

France’s National Industrial Property Institute (INPI) published its 2013 patent ranking in April. The CEA ranked third with 625 patent applications (up from 566 in 2012), coming in behind PSA Peugeot Citroën (1,378 applications) and Safran (645 applications). The 2013 ranking is fairly similar to the previous year’s ranking. Changes worth noting: Safran pulled ahead […] >>

Start-up Aryballe Technologies, founded in 2014, is gearing up to raise €4 million in fresh capital to finance R&D on innovative olfactory and gustatory biosensors for the perfume and food industries. The company has also signed two R&D contracts, one with Leti and the other with INAC. Aryballe used SPRi (Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging), a […] >>

Grenoble’s microelectronics industry just brought home a big win. Global smartphone leader Samsung recently signed a strategic contract with STMicroelectronics with a view to integrating the semiconductor giant’s 28 nm FD-SOI technology into future generations of Samsung products. STMicroelectronics, Soitec, and Leti have been working together to improve FD-SOI over the past several years. The […] >>