Audience
- project developers,
- innovative smaller companies,
- large companies.
Description
The Rendez-vous Carnot event provides a unique opportunity for companies to schedule business meetings with over 800 exhibitors, who are major actors in R&D, to meet their needs in innovation. The fifth edition will be held in Lyon from 3rd to 4th October 2012, at the Double-Mixte venue in Villeurbanne.
Visitors
Rendez-vous Carnot is specifically designed for project developers who are looking for R&D support in response to their needs for innovation.
Are you a smaller company or a large group? Save months of looking for technical partners and carry out successful development and innovation projects!
A broad R&D offer is available in numerous areas:
- chemistry, clean and safe procedures,
- construction and sustainable infrastructures,
- electronics, micro- and nanotechnologies
- fossil and renewable energies,
- environmental evaluation and metrology,
- geosciences, natural resources,
- materials and nanomaterials,
- mechanization, robotics, industrial automation,
- nutrition, food industry technologies,
- health, aging, health technologies,
- ITC, embedded systems, Internet technologies,
- transportation, engines, propulsion and fuels.
Exhibitors
Rendez-vous Carnot participants are 800 exhibiting laboratories committed to research partnerships at the service of companies:
- Carnot institutes,
- public laboratories and evaluation services,
- contractual research structures,
- industrial technical centers,
- European research centers,
- companies certified to receive the Research Tax Credit,
- competitiveness centers and clusters,
- specialists who assist in creating public-private research partnerships.
Encounters leading to successful innovation projects!
- The show format is based on quick presentations, where companies, smaller ones for the most part, give a ten-minute summary of the products and services they have brought to the market following an R&D partnership with a research laboratory.
- There are also round tables to enable better preparation for tomorrow's market needs (analyses and innovation strategies by the leading players and specialists in the major sectors).
- Workshops provide a key to the support possibilities available for innovation.
New in 2012: access to a broad selection of patents and their R&D support
Research establishments analyze the needs of visitors who are developing an innovation project.
If an unused patent can provide an answer to a particular need, the visitor is given an appointment to ensure proper comprehension of the need and define with him or her the R&D action to be carried out to support the transfer of know-how.
The CNRS participates in this initiative in the context of its PR2 project with a portfolio of approximately 1,000 available patent families.
A proven meeting format
- High-quality encounters: the cross-validation of meeting appointments guarantees matching exhibitors' skills with the needs of visitors who are project developers.
- Pertinent contacts: the description of both R&D offers and needs guarantees encounters between preselected and pertinent professionals.
- Efficiency: the scheduling of meetings takes into account priorities and availabilities.
Greater Lyon is a partner of Rendez-vous Carnot
The governance and management of a network of public and private players are well-honed skills in Lyon. They are the source of innovation and competitiveness.
Within this context, Greater Lyon supports the Association of Carnot Institutes for the organization of Rendez-vous Carnot 2012, with the goal of making it the leading European show for public-private research partnership.