Public
research and training centres
in Rhône-Alpes are mainly supported by Universities
of Grenoble, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Savoie, CEA/LETI, Minatec
IDEAs Laboratory®, INRIA, CNRS,
INPG, Ecole Normale Supérieure, INSA Lyon, Centrale
Lyon, ESRF, Pôle optique-vision, Schools
of Graphics Art (Gobelins, Emile Cohl), etc.
Public research is carried out in more than 50
laboratories and
employs some 6,000 people working in
numerous IT fields. The latter are strongly involved
in European and International projects.
Private research and training
centers,
such as those at Crolles 2 (ST Microelectronics, Freescale
Semiconductors and Philips Semiconductors), France
Telecom R&D, HP Lab, Inovatel, Sun Microsystems
(International Center for Network Computing), Minatec
IDEAs Laboratory®,
Xerox Research Center Europe develop advanced applied
research for their own needs as well as for international
and industrial projects. |