Six Grenoble projects earn kudos for innovation
Six Grenoble-based projects—four of which are located at MINATEC—earned recognition in the latest edition of France’s national grant competition for innovative businesses: Kalray, for new-generation programmable integrated circuits; Fluoptics for pre-surgical optical imaging using fluorescence; Cytoo for high-tech cell culture supplies; and Asygn for analog and mixed circuit design software.
MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory® signs two major new partnerships
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Renault and Bouygues SA joined the MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory® at the end of 2008. For the next three years they will participate in research on “energy and mobility,” an area that combines future transportation systems and smart objects worn by individuals and their interfaces with vehicles, the home, the workplace, and leisure facilities.
Start-ups going strong
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Movea, CEA’s one-hundredth spinoff, raised €7.3 million in financing to develop its motion sensing technologies.
Microoled, in partnership with Léti, developed a micro-screen measuring just 0.38 inches (9.6 mm) with WVGA definition of 800x480 pixels, a first for this type of component.
Crocus Technology, which develops integrated MRAM memory on CMOS, raised an additional €11.5 million, after raising €13.5 million in 2006.
French patent results
MINATEC researchers filed 259 French patents in 2008.
