www.instituts-carnot.eu

Stéphane DALMAS 
Inria Carnot Institute Coordinator 
+ 33 (0)4 92 38 78 18 
stephane.dalmas@inria.fr

CONTACTS

Research personnel  
(full-time equivalent): 

1 800

including PhD students: 

475

Partnership  
research incomes: 

27 M

Global budget: 

115 M

Services provided 

 

The Inria Carnot Institute has more  

than 50 transfer professionals dedicated  

to industrial partnerships and serving 

companies:
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in daily contact with research teams

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located in 8 research centres in Lille, 

Grenoble, Nancy, Saclay, Rocquencourt, 

Rennes, Bordeaux and Sophia Antipolis

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active in the local business communities 

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coordinated by Inria’s Technology Transfer 

and Innovation Department

 

An offer tailored to the needs of  

companies and partners:
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contractual and collaborative research

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technology transfer and maturation

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framework agreements for long term 

collaborations 

 

Special effort to reach out to SMEs 

to support them in their innovation projects:
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Inria Innovation Labs (joint laboratories with 
SMEs)

The Inria Carnot Institute also offers:

 Inria’s experience when it comes to 

starting innovative companies:
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In 2014, Inria celebrated 30 years of 

supporting startup creation. Through a 

proactive policy that focuses on creating 

economic value, Inria has helped found more 

than 120 companies out of Inria teams.

 Facilitation initiatives:

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iCOMMUNITY.fr, a website for companies  

that want to innovate with digital science 

public research institutions

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Inria Industry meetings, thematic events held 

several times a year in Paris and in other 

French cities to promote the results of public 

research

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HPC-SME initiative for helping SMEs use 

high-performance computing

 An international presence:

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CIRIC, a transfer and innovation oriented 

centre of excellence in Chile

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Inria@SiliconValley, in the United States, in 

partnership with the University of California, 

Berkeley and Stanford University, as well as a 

joint high-performance computing laboratory 

in Urbana-Champaign

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LIAMA, a presence in China since 1997

Institut Carnot Inria  

Domaine de Voluceau

Rocquencourt 

BP 105

78153 Le Chesnay 

France

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