A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.

The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E).

 

Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) is an organization of industry-leading companies in the semiconductor, electronic systems and EDA tool industries.

We are focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems. We believe that through collaborative efforts, the industry can achieve higher levels of systems-on-silicon integration while reducing the cost and complexity of integrating future design systems.

Powerful economic and market forces are fueling demand for rapid integration and delivery of single chip solutions in a multi-vendor environment. Si2 is uniquely positioned to enable collaboration through a strong, implementation focus driven by its member companies.

 

The Electronic Design Automation Consortium is the international association of companies developing EDA tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic products.

The EDA Industry provides the critical technology to design electronics that enable the Information Age, including communications, computers, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics.

 

Global competitiveness cluster Minalogic fosters research-led innovation in intelligent miniaturized products and solutions for industry.

Located in Grenoble, France, the cluster channels in a single physical location a range of highly-specialized skills and resources from knowledge creation to the development and production of intelligent miniaturized services for industry.

Minalogic has staked out a position as global leader in intelligent miniaturized solutions—a unique hybrid of micro- and nano-technologies and embedded software—from fundamental research to technology transfer.

The technologies developed at the cluster are applicable to all business sectors, including more traditional industries. The role of Minalogic is to respond to the business community's need to identify new value-added services that can be integrated into existing products in fields that include health care, the environment, mobility, the media, and the textile industry.

Minalogic enjoys a strategic location in Grenoble, France, a city whose internationally-renowned innovation ecosystem is known for its pioneering advances in the creation of clusters. Grenoble has a long tradition of fruitful alliances linking research, education, and industry. Effective, value-generating partnerships between public and private organizations have made Grenoble a global hub for innovation.

Grenoble has a solid culture of partnership and results-driven initiatives. The city boasts one of the largest populations of international-caliber researchers anywhere in the world, working at public and private laboratories and institutes with strong ties to business and project financiers. Minalogic today leverages the capacities of Minatec—one of the world's top centers for micro- and nano-technologies—and leading embedded software makers operating in Grenoble.

Minalogic brings together major corporations, small and mid-sized businesses, government agencies, and organizations from the public and private sectors. The cluster's focus on innovation and its participatory governance model are designed with one objective in mind: to ensure efficient, results-oriented cooperation among cluster partners.

 

OSEO was born in 2005, by bringing together ANVAR (French innovation agency) and BDPME (SME development bank), around a mission of general interest supporting the regional and national policies.

Its mission is to provide assistance and financial support to French SMEs and VSEs in the most decisive phases of their life cycle : start up, innovation, development, business transfer / buy out. By sharing the risk, it facilitates the access of SMEs to financing by banking partners and equity capital investors.

 

Chaque association membre de notre réseau a pour objectif de développer le dynamisme économique local en aidant les créateurs et repreneurs de futures PME, porteuses de richesses et d’emplois.

Chaque association membre de notre réseau a pour objectif de développer le dynamisme économique local en aidant les créateurs et repreneurs de futures PME, porteuses de richesses et d’emplois. Ainsi, depuis 1986, plus de 2 500 chefs d’entreprise animent bénévolement les associations de Réseau Entreprendre.

Au-delà des prêts d’honneur accordés par les associations, ils conseillent, orientent et accompagnent les porteurs de projets, avec des méthodes d’entreprise. Issus de tous les secteurs d’activité, ils disposent en effet d’expériences diversifiées et complémentaires qui leur permettent d’accompagner et de professionnaliser un Homme et son projet dans toutes ses dimensions. Réseau Entreprendre porte une attention particulière aux « projets à potentiel » ayant la capacité d’atteindre la taille d’une P.M.E. et susceptibles de créer en moyenne 13 emplois en 5 ans.

 

Grain is a structure that searches for and supports people with innovative projects, who wish to create a startup company.

These projects must be linked to public research as follows: either the technology must come directly from public research or it must be closely linked to it, that is to say, the people with the innovative project integrate technology coming from public research into their project. GRAIN's role is to facilitate the liason between both parties. Grain particularly encourages the creation of new companies with high growth potential, helping them integrate into the regional economic system. It is hoped that in the long term these companies will generate a sustainable economic activity resulting in a significant source of new jobs for qualified people, and the development of new export markets. Grain has a notable role in the transfer of technology from public research to new companies: these companies integrate the technology in such a way as to convert it into a significant competitive advantage for themselves.

 

Microelectronics is the key technology of the information and communication society.

Projections tell us that in 2010 it will be possible to integrate 5 billion transistors on one single chip. As a result of shorter production cycles, design teams will have to design them within a few months. If we want to reach this target, we must at least double our design productivity every year. Has there ever been an industrial sector demanding such numbers and efforts? Automating the design process (Electronic Design Automation, EDA) is therefore fundamental to microelectronics and other future systems. However, it is impossible for one single company to develop the necessary methods and tools by itself. To ensure our future design capacity we need the concerted action of semiconductor and system companies, universities, research institutes and EDA vendors. By forming the edacentrum association the German industry supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) took an important step for advancing EDA in society, politics and in the industry.