Institut Mines-Télécom and its Carnot Télécom & Société numérique institute are winners of the "maturation-prematuration" AAP.

Increasing the impact on employment and our economy, increasing the flow of inventions, multiplying outputs both in the form of transfer and start-up creation - these are the objectives of this call for projects launched by the Government in December 2021.

As part of the national strategy to accelerate 5G & telecom networks of the future, this call for projects addresses a critical segment of the innovation cycle, aimed at overcoming technical, economic and organizational barriers and leveraging the dissemination of new solutions resulting from public research.

A total of €275 million will be allocated to 17 consortia to finance the prematuration and maturation phases of results from the France 2030 national acceleration strategies.

Following on from its results in previous calls for projects (AAP) under this national acceleration strategy, Institut Mines-Télécom and its Carnot institute Télécom & Société numérique, are winners of this AAP, which will enable them to massively increase their activity in transferring research projects to the industrial world via patent(s).

With its many telecom and digital research laboratories grouped within its Carnot TSN institute, the ITM is heavily involved in a number of research-industry collaborations. One of these, FRAMExG (French program of IP Massification for Europe in XG), is one of the winning consortia of this AAP.

The FRAMExG project, in partnership with EURECOM (an ITM subsidiary and member of Carnot TSN), most of the French SATTs and INRIA in particular, is led by Institut Mines-Télécom and its Carnot institute Télécom & Société numérique, as well as SATT Ouest Valorisation. FRAMExG aims to mobilize an academic 5xG team in France, with the objective of maturing disruptive 5G-6G technologies and accelerating their transfer to the socio-economic and industrial world.

The Institut Mines-Télécom and its Carnot institute Télécom & Société numérique, with their leadership in 5G and 6G (PIA4's Beyond 5G project, PEPR 5G) and their experience in technology transfer, will lead the prematuration component, while SATT Ouest Valorisation will lead the maturation component.

The FRAMExG pre-maturation and maturation program aims to restore France's leadership in future 5G, 6G and beyond telecoms networks, by contributing to European sovereignty. To achieve this, it is setting up a patent pooling system, with the aim of transferring patents to industrial players in 5G and 6G (GE/ETI/SME/Startup), or pooling them with the portfolios of industrial players on standardization committees for 5G, 6G and beyond. Several hundred patents are expected to be transferred and/or standardized.

Comprising the majority of the country's research laboratories, technology transfer offices and technological research institutes, FRAMExG is supported by major French and European manufacturers. The project proposes a breakthrough approach to research and technology transfer practices: a patent factory system, developed many years ago by the ITM within its Carnot TSN program, enables the efficient generation of a critical mass of patents, which can then be transferred directly to industrialists and/or brought before international standardization committees, where international competition and telecoms sovereignty - both crucial issues at the present time - are at stake.

For more information on the FRAMExG project, please refer to the latest Carnot TSN Activity Report, page 9.