[Automatic translation follows] Saint-Étienne Métropole, a public establishment for intermunicipal cooperation, became a Metropolis on January 1, 2018, thus joining the restricted and envied circle of the 22 large French metropolises. Its territory is made up of 53 municipalities and has more than 400,000 inhabitants. Saint-Étienne Métropole manages, for its users, various public service missions such as waste management, school transport, drinking water supply and even roads. https://www.saint-etienne-metropole.fr/ http://www.saint-etienne-attractivite.fr/

Sectors: French metropolis

[Automatic translation follows] Competitiveness cluster - At the heart of textile processing Our mission ? Increasing the competitiveness of businesses through collaborative innovation. Our job ? Encourage and develop collaborative innovation on processes and products, through a set of dedicated services. The center supervises and supports collaborative R&D projects involving at least 3 distinct partners (industrialists and researchers). How ? The center initiates R&D themes and sets up working groups (structuring, search for partners, assembly, search for financing) which it leads, until the submission, financing and closure of the resulting projects. . It also supports companies and research centers wishing …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] Places and a range of services to innovate differently with the University of Lyon. The Innovation Factory is a system of the University of Lyon which has three missions: - develop and manage buildings in Lyon including creativity spaces and FabLabs open to as many people as possible; - propose a range of services mobilizing the expertise of the Factory, that of the teacher-researchers, as well as the talent and creativity of the students of the University of Lyon in order to innovate differently on projects carried out in multidisciplinary teams; - provide access to the socio-economic …