Located in the heart of Paris, the «Voir et Entendre»  

Carnot Institute represents one of the most important 

international centers in neurosensory research.  

This institute is designed as a place of exchange gathering  

on the same site patients, clinicians, researchers  

and industrials in order to accelerate innovation in terms  

of health products and high technology, while bringing 

solutions to unmet needs of people impaired by pathologies 

and handicaps affecting visual and hearing systems.

From knowledge transfer ... 

to tomorrow’s therapeutic approaches

Target markets

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Healthcare

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Biotechnologies

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Imaging 

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Optics

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Home automation

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Urban planning

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Services

Our core strategy: partnerships

 Small and medium sized pharma and 

biotech companies: 

Sanofi, Pfizer, 

Novartis, Alcon, Allergan, GenSight 

Biologics, Santen-Novagali etc...

 Small and medium sized companies  

in nanomaterials, optics, robotics, 

electronics:  

Essilor, Thales, Siemens, Imagine Eyes, 

Pixium Vision, LLTech etc...

 Research laboratories in life sciences:  

FMI (Basel), MEEI (Boston), UCL (London), 

Max Planck Institut (Frankfurt) etc...

 Research laboratories in optics, 

acoustics, robotics, mathematics, signal 

transmission:  

CEA Léti, CEA List, ESPCI, ESIEE etc...

 Clinical research center: 

 

member of EVICRNet, a European 

network of clinical research in 

ophthalmology (86 members,  

16 countries)

The «Voir et Entendre»  

Carnot Institute activities:

 Development of therapies (research, 

developing and running of clinical trials)

 Sensory restoration (artificial retina, 

cochlear implants)

 Innovation in investigation tools (retinal 

imaging)

 Overall approaches on issues linked  

to sensory impairment (urban planning, 

home automation, services)

An ecosystem supporting 

innovation and startups

 1 incubator with several startups on site 
 Access to 12 technological core facilities 

for our incubator and partners

 Creation of 7 spin-offs by the «Voir et 

Entendre» Carnot Institute

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