A few Key Figures for 2003

Research Contracts

Private sector partners : 25 % Private sector partners, european funding : 14 % Funding by private sector companies : 32 % Public partners , french government funding : 15 % Public partners, french government funding : 15 % Other : (licences, ...) : 10 %

Three major fields of application : production and equipment, telecommunications and multimedia, services and distribution. The percentage of contracts for these various fields is the following :

Telecommunications et multimedia : 42 % Healthcare: 11 % Engineering, transport, environment : 26 % Other : 21 %

Telecommunications and multimedia : 58 % Healthcare : 9 % Engineering, transport and environment : 21% Other : 12 %

Start-up Creation

Since the creation of Simulog, the first spin-off to be supported by INRIA in 1984, more than sixty other companies have been launched. One of the most significant successes is that of ILOG, now a world leader in software components, which is listed on the Nasdaq and the New Market. In 2003, 8 spin-off were started. Taken together, these start-up have an annual turnover in excess of 195 M€, and employ over 1,700 persons.

Patents and Software Licences

At the end of 2003, INRIA already had 152 ongoing patents, and in the course of the year 5 new patents were taken out. In addition to 47 commercial licenses, some 150 software products were available free of charge, either on CD-Rom or downloadable over the Web.