The need for innovation is now more urgent than ever for companies, which must adapt their production equipment to the new needs of their customers.
Télécom and Société Numérique Carnot Institute helps create a true culture of innovation within your company by allowing you to tap into world-class scientific and technological resources.
Take advantage of a powerful structured network of 11 scientific institutions of excellence and gain easy access to its expertise to accelerate your R&D strategy and achieve your innovation projects.
Our 1,900 researchers are fully aware of the modernization challenges facing companies. They listen to your needs in order to provide you with innovative, competitive solutions that are integrated into your strategy. At every stage of the project, they support your transformation and maintain a relationship founded on quality, efficiency and transparency.
Comprehensive support
Your partnership with Télécom and Société Numérique Carnot Institute helps you develop decisive and sustainable competitive advantages. We achieve this by supporting you in the development and implementation of your project, throughout the entire innovation value chain, from defining your need to production:
Strategy > Defining a strategic innovation roadmap
Research > Scientific and administrative follow-up of project engineering
Development > Integrating research into the production process
Development > Financial optimization of the entire innovation project
Stratégie 
Définition d’une roadmap stratégique de l’innovation
Recherche
Suivi scientifique et administratif de l’ingénierie du projet
Développement
Intégration de la recherche dans le processus de production
Support
Optimisation financière de la totalité du projet d’innovation
A one-stop shop
Throughout all the stages of your project, you have a single point of contact, constantly attentive to your needs.
Your project manager helps you define your innovation strategy roadmap and identifies the scientific and technological resources that will advance your R&I project.
It leads the partnership from end to end, taking into account all the necessary aspects:
· Scientific issues
· Financial optimization
· Intellectual property
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Your fully customized R&I solution
Our unique position in the higher education and research sector unlocks opportunities for you to collaborate with first-rate researchers, as part of a high-quality contractual relationship.
To ensure the success of all your R&D projects, our services are founded on synergy between research, technological maturation and training.
Everything is modular: for each of your projects, we fine tune our services to match your company’s needs in order to provide you with customized support.
Research
We offer the opportunity of working with recognized researchers for effective partnership research. This collaboration can take different forms: a CIFRE or outsourced thesis, a bilateral contract, industrial chair, joint laboratory, or European or national projects via the ANR, H2020, PIA or FUI programs.
Maturation
Technologies go through different stages of maturity during their development. We support you throughout the technology readiness levels, from proof of concept to technology transfer (with patent filing and/or startup creation), through prototyping and production.
Training
Télécom and Société Numérique Carnot Institute relies on a vast network of leading schools to connect you to French academic excellence. Students in continuing education or apprenticeship programs can therefore invest in your innovation activities via an internship or a Master’s project.
Joint laboratories
Partnership thesis
A mutually beneficial, optimized partnership
Funding, intellectual property and access to results are key components of all innovation projects.
Funding
Research tax credit (CIR) of up to 60% is available in the form of tax reductions and subsidies.
Intellectual property
Several technology transfer options are available. The results can be returned entirely to you, become the sole property of Télécom & Société Numérique Carnot Institute, or be covered by a co-ownership agreement between your company and the Carnot Institute.
Access to results
You can decide to leave the results in open access, maintain complete control over their distribution or opt for an intermediate sharing system.
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