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GRENOBLE – An Attractive Destination

Grenoble is the capital of the French Alpes, located in a valley surrounded by beautiful mountains.
Stendhal once wrote that “… there is a mountain at the end of each Grenoble street: Belledonne, Vercors and Chartreuse…”. On the touristic side, Grenoble is famous for alpine landscapes, sunshine and snow.
On the scientific side, Grenoble is often referred to as the place where the Silicon and SOI Valleys merge. Stendhal would certainly write today that “…there is research lab or high-tech place at the corner of each mountain”.
A number of advanced R&D centres and leading semiconductor fabs are scattered around Grenoble. Application oriented research is blooming, its roots being the dense network of laboratories dedicated to basic research. World class institutes (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, CEA, Neutron ILL reactor, etc) are surrounded by numerous smaller, yet outstanding University and CNRS laboratories.
Grenoble is one of the major university towns in France: over 68,000 students representing about 15% of the population of the greater Grenoble area. Grenoble is understandably proud of its academic and scientific environment, with a long tradition of partnership between research and industry.

GRENOBLE - A major European R&D centre

With a solid industrial network, from international groups to innovating start-ups, and an outstanding scientific and technological environment, Grenoble is a major, world-wide centre for electronics, information and communications technology. The technical expertise and the synergy between university, research and industry contributes to the successful image of Grenoble area.
Grenoble is located in the Rhône-Alpes region, the second most important in France in economic and scientific terms. The ICT sector accounts for a total of 38,700 jobs, including more than 10,000 in public research and industrial R&D..

Micro and nanotechnology
Grenoble-Isère is the leading European centre for microelectronics on account of its integrated circuit technology and reseach. There are many examples illustrating the vitality and sophistication of the microelectronics activity in Grenoble area.
In 1992, STMicroelectronics, Léti-CEA and France Telecom R&D have pooled their deep sub-micronic technology research resources, with prototyping and production located at STMicroelectronics in Crolles.
In 2002, Freescale joined NXP semiconductors and STMicroelectronics R&D alliance for 90- to 32-nm processes for 300-mm wafers in Crolles II. This is the largest industrial investment in France in the last 12 years.
A new 300 mm wafer fab has opened in 2003 at STMicroelectronics Crolles.
SOITEC is the world leader in the fabrication of SOI wafers (Smart-Cut process).
MINATEC’s inauguration: June 2nd 2006.
On 12 July, 2005, the Interministerial Committee for Regional Development approved the Minalogic project, granting it world-class competitivity centre status. This will enhance the international visibility of the Grenoble area and increase its drawing power. The Minalogic competitivity centre aims to become the top centre in Europe, and one of the top three centres worldwide, for smart miniaturized solutions. It will bring together and consolidate resources from industry, research and training in two key fields: micro and nanotechnology, and systems-on-chip (SoC).
International cooperation is a major asset for research in Grenoble-Isere. CEA-Leti is a party to European partnerships involving the Dresden Nanotechnology Centre and Imec in Belgium. It also collaborates with CSEM, in Switzerland, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany and Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre. In 2008 it entered into a partnership with Californian research institute Caltech for nanosystems VLSI. And private research aligns considerable human resources and capital in key projects such as the STMicroelectronics-IBM Alliance and the Nano 2012 project.

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Software and computer industry
The computer industry comprises computer manufacturers and software developers.
Grenoble is well represented in the network and telecommunications business, thanks to several major groups, numerous dynamic start-ups and several important research centres HP, Bull, CapGemini, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Xerox Research Centre Europe, INRIA, and universities (INP Grenoble and UJF).
Multimedia and knowledge servers, dedicated technologies for mobile computing and software development, make Grenoble one of the leading centres in Europe, for both industry and research.
The 2007 Turing prize (IT equivalent of a Nobel prize) was awarded to Grenoble scientist, Joseph Sifakis, for his work on “model-checking”, a technology for verifying complex systems now widely used in embedded systems.

Electronics
Grenoble stands out in three fields:
automation and industrial control systems
passive components industry: coaxial connectors and cables, components for optical fibre networks; surface-mounted components,
tubes and screens
Grenoble university laboratories have developed numerous industrial partnerships in all this fields..

Nanobiotech

ESRF - European Synchrotron

300 mm fab: STMicroelectronics (CrollesII)

AEPI provides companies with all the assistance required to facilitate and realise their plans to expand or relocate in Grenoble-Isère.

Ressources:
MINATEC®, Pôle d'innovation en Micro et Nanotechnologies
Minalogic, pôle de compétitivité sur les solutions miniaturisées intelligentes
LyonBiopôle, pôle de compétitivité en vaccins et diagnostic
Adebag, association pour le développement des Bio-industries dans l'Agglomération Grenobloise.