Inria STIP/SED Overwiew

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① The French Institute for Research in ICST
• Information and Communication Science and Technologies

RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT
AND EDUCATION
EXPERIMENTATION AND TRANSFER
TRAINING AND
INNOVATION

A scientific and technological public institution under the dual

authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry

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Inria Key figures (2014)

4,440 8 41 66
People Research Centres International Associated teams
(60 % paid by Inria) in France conferences throughout the world

4,450 180 304

Scientific Project teams Active patents
publications (in total)

1,000
3,500 A BUDGET OF
Software
Scientists

1415
researchers/teacher
€ 265M 113
researchers
Of which more than Spin off (in total)
1,000 Doctoral students
100 Post-Doctoral 29% from external
300 R&D engineers resources

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 Inria’s Research Centres
Inria LILLE
Nord Europe

Inria PARIS - Rocquencourt

Inria NANCY
Grand Est

Inria SACLAY
Île-de-France

Inria RENNES
Bretagne
Atlantique
Inria GRENOBLE
Rhône-Alpes

Inria BORDEAUX
Sud-Ouest
Inria SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS
Méditerranée

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5 Main research topics

1 Applied Mathematics,
Computation and Simulation

2 Algorithmics, Programming,
Software and Architecture

3 Networks, Systems and Services,

Distributed Computing

4 Perception, Cognition and

Interaction

5 Digital Health, Biology and Earth

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37 research teams 5 main topics

1 Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation (6 teams)

APICS, ECUADOR, McTAO, NACHOS, OPALE, TOSCA
• Very high performance computing for computational sciences (national action)
• C2S@EXA : Computer and Computational sciences at Exascale (national action)

2 Algorithmics, Programming, Software and Architecture (4 teams)

AOSTE, GALAAD2, GEOMETRICA, MARELLE

3 Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing (7 teams)

COATI, DIANA, FOCUS, INDES, MAESTRO, SCALE

4
Perception, Cognition, Interaction (9 teams)
• AYIN, GRAPHIK, HEPHAÏSTOS, LAGADIC, REVES, STARS, TITANE, WIMMICS, ZENITH
• Personally Assisted Living (PAL) (national action)

Digital Health, Biology and Earth (12 teams)

5 • ABS, ASCLEPIOS, ATHENA, BIOCORE, CASTOR, COFFEE, DEMAR, LEMON, MODEMIC,

MORPHEME, NEUROMATHCOMP, VIRTUAL PLANTS
• CardioSense 3D, Cardiac Simulation (national action)
• Morphogenetics : Deciphering morphogenesis at multiple scales (national action)

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Inria Project-Team
Inria Project Team

• 10 to 30 people working under a scientific leader supervision

• Focused scientific theme and international evaluation
• A limited lifespan : average 8 years, maximum 12 years
• Well-defined objectives and work program
• Linked to and cooperating with industrial and scientific
partners in France and around the world
• A priori and a posteriori evaluation

172 140
Inria Project- An organization that
in partnership complements the universities
Teams in 2014

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Technology Transfer : Fundamentals

TRANSFER THE THREE WAYS OF TRANSFER ORGANIZATION

One of the Transfer of ideas, Transfer and

key missions technologies and Innovation
Inria « people » Department (DTI)

R&D partnership Headquarters

(bilateral and collaborative projects) & national networks
Technology transfer Officers in charge
(IP assets, software or patent) of partnerships and
technological transfer
Transfer of knowledge/ know-how
(expertise, mobility) in each center
A subsidiary : IT-
Translation (funding of
spin-off companies)

SUBSIDIARIES: Inria Participation and IT Translation

(coaching of spin-off companies)

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SED /STIP
Transfer & Development Support

STIP –
SED BILATERAL
Development Bilateral Contracts
Plateforms Licensing / sell-off
PoC Start-up
ADT ATT

STIP – COLLAB
Europe (H2020, EIT,..)
National (ANR, FUI..)
Innovation (EIT…
Attractivity
Technological developments

Experimentation and
development services Technological
development
actions

Software
development
operations

Experimental
platforms
Support for
standardization

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STIP (1/2) - Bilateral Partnerships

STIP –
BILATERAL
Bilateral Contracts - Development of Industrial Parnerships
Licensing / sell-off - Technology Transfer
Start-up - Protection of IP ( patenting; licensing)
ATT - IPR policy and legal department
- Lasting partnerships (joint labs, innovation
labs,..)
- Support to innovative SMEs
- Researcher transfer retribution
- Sart-up creation and business modeling
- Fund raising
Exemple of Centre’s Industrial Partnerships

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 Start-ups created in Sophia
2001
2000
2003
2000
2013

1998
2012 2005

1990 2010
2006

2007
1988
1988

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Company start-ups Policy
Inria technology Inria promotes
companies company start-ups

113 companies created, with fifty in

operation By providing effective start-up support
structures
•Ilog, Realviz, Trusted Logic…
•Inria Participation and IT Translation

2 compagnies created in 2012 :

• Axellience By promoting seed -financing
• Mensia Technologies •IT Translation Investissement, I -Source,
C-Source, T-Source
4 compagnies created in 2013 :
• InSimo
• Mnemotix By working in partnership and networking
• Synectique •Regional incubators
• Therapixel

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 STIP (2/2) Collaborative Partnerships

STIP – COLLAB
Europe (H2020, EIT,..) - Driving collaborative research projets, proposal
National (ANR, FUI..) submission, administrative support of dedicated
Innovation (EIT… department (finance, admin, legal, management).
- Negotiation and contractualisation
- Valorisation of research results
- Developing European and International
partnerships ( academic & industrial)
- Detecting funding mechanisms and
opportunities
- Scientific and financial expertise of Tech
transfer activities
- Scouting for partnerships in accordance with
research prorities and assets portfolio
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Involvement in the local economic landscape:

• Competitiveness Clusters:
• Member of 8 regional clusters (SCS, Pegase, …)
• Involvement in executive committees, selection committees,
advisory boards…
• Public regional incubator (PACA Est): (100 start-up from 2001)
• Selection committee
• Innovation support organizations:
• Chamber of Commerce, Bpifrance
• Telecom Valley
• Joint development projects:
• Campus SophiaTech (University of Nice, Eurecom)
• Campus St Priest (UM2)
• Experimental Platforms
• KIC EIT DIGITAL

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Regional Ecosystems
Competitiveness Clusters
Academic partners SCS Trimatec
Pegase

Optitec Eurobiomed

CapEnergie MerPaca

Risques

Cultural activities

Public authorities

Socio-economics actors

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International relations
Develop strong partnerships all around the world :
• Joint research laboratories for long-term cooperations
• JLPC (Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. Inria-Urbana Champaign, USA)
• Inria@SiliconValley (partnerships with Berkeley and Stanford Universities)
• LIAMA (Sino-French Laboratory for computer Science, Automation, and Applied
Mathematics)
• LIRIMA (International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics in Africa)
• CIRIC (joint Laboratory for Communication and information Research and
Innovation Center in Chile)

• Inria funded project-teams associated with foreign teams for 3 years on a

research objective
(79 in 2016)

Increase Inria attractivity

• An Internships program for master and PhD students (151 in 2016)
• Visits of scientists from many other countries

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 Training and knowledge dissemination
• Training through research
• Teaching
• 150 PhD/year and 140 internship/year
• Activities in computing engineery, training
in industrial companies
• Most advanced equipement
• Post-doctoral training
• Welcoming young foreign researchers
• Post-doctoral periods abroad
• ERCIM fellowships in European countries
• Fellowships for industrial post-docs
• Organizing courses and seminars
• University degree courses (Master)
• Engineering schools (École
Polytechnique, ENS, etc.)
• Creation of international master of
UNS (Biocomp – Ubinet) and with
Montpellier, master TIC-Santé
• Teaching computing and digital science
to teachers in secondary school
• Member of the GIS Ecole Normale
supérieur de Lyon – UNS - CNRS –
INRIA
• Involved in the MPSI courses of
CIV School in Valbonne
• Setting up Inria courses, seminars
and working groups
• Organizing national and international
conferences
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 A research centre
That’s it… roughly
in Euroregion
with an international influence
www.inria.fr/centre/sophia

stip-sam@inria.fr

Centre de Recherche
Centre de recherche
Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
Lille – Nord Europe
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