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Creating start-ups in 2007: 4D View Solutions | ActiveEon | Intuitive Machine | Milpix | Sidérion technologies | Scalable Graphics
Creating start-ups has always been a key element in INRIA's technology transfer policy. Almost a hundred companies have been created since 1984 using technologies developed within the Institute. For its 2006-2009 four-year contract, INRIA has committed to the ambitious objective of starting 25 companies over four years. After 2006, when three companies were created, 2007 was an exceptional year, producing nine start-ups from within INRIA.
Bruno Sportisse - Director of
Technology Transfer and Innovation
The Institute's voluntary policy aims to foster possibilities to create companies and to make the process easier more efficient. Believing that people play a key role in the process of creating companies, the DTI's first step was to cooperate with INRIA-Transfert to set up the Barcamp seminars, which aim to raise awareness among researchers. The objective is to motivate researchers to take on projects by providing realistic case studies to potential applicants. Participants have the opportunity to meet people with proven experience (CEOs, venture capitalists) and the INRIA-Transfert support staff. Traveling conferences held in various research centers further promote awareness of technology transfer and innovation possibilities.
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Read on for the enthusiastic experiences of those involved in the latest 9 company start-ups.Every two weeks, INRIA will focus on one of the 2007 start-ups.
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