Grenoble-Isère—located in the Rhône-Alpes region, home to France’s second-largest regional economy after Greater Paris/Ile-de-France—is a microcosm of the country’s powerful, diversified industrial base. Hemmed in by mountains and rivers, Grenoble-Isère does not let geographical limitations hinder its growth. The area continues to attract investment in industry, even in sluggish economic times. But is Grenoble-Isère’s stellar performance a mere coincidence, or is it the result of a carefully planned and executed economic development strategy?

AEPI is a sponsor of ISS Europe 2012, which takes place in Munich, Febuary 26-28th.

The SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) is the high-level annual meeting of the European semiconductor industry’s leading decision-makers. The event attracts top executives from major semiconductor corporations and representatives of smaller semiconductor equipment manufacturers.

ISS focuses both on strategy and technology. Participants come together to explore how to best position the unique added value of Europe’s semiconductor industry on the global market. The conference is rich with insights into markets and applications, with speakers proffering their unique conceptions of the economic and industrial policies that will shape the future of the industry.

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Imagine a place where your business can get new innovations to market in record time. Grenoble-Isère, in the heart of the French Alps, offers a collaborative innovation ecosystem designed to help you do just that.

Atrenta Inc. is a technology software company with sales and support offices worldwide. Atrenta’s products help to design the advanced semiconductors, called a system on a chip (SoC) devices, found in today’s consumer products such as smart phones and tablets. The company launched its French R&D center at the MINATEC Innovation Campus in Grenoble in partnership with CEA/Leti in mid-March 2011. The initial focus of the facility is the development of new power reduction technology for SoCs.

With every new generation of advanced consumer products, more functionality and performance is delivered with an expectation of longer battery life as well. This demand has put extreme pressure on power reduction techniques for the SoCs used in these products. Atrenta has been delivering power reduction technology to its customers worldwide for several years through its popular SpyGlass® product family. The new research being performed at the Grenoble R&D center will significantly advance the power reduction capabilities of SpyGlass, allowing more efficient and lower power designs to be created for next generation consumer products. The technology will help to develop new markets and new applications.

On December 6th, organized by the Office of Science & Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States (OST), the French American Innovation Day (FAID) is designed to emphasize a specific topic that is significant to science, therapeutics and innovation.

For the 2011 edition, the event is co-sponsored by GIANT Innovation Campus (France) and the Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute (PVLSI, USA). Entitled « Science and Innovation: The Challenges of Translational Breakthroughs », the 2011 FAID will give the opportunity to enlighten Innovation for health and new technologies in 3 appealing sessions.

Session 1 "Deciphering complexity and diversity of life"
Session 2 "Key competencies for innovation"

Session 3 "New innovations in healthcare"

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DENVER —The Rocky Mountain French American Chamber of Commerce (RMFACC) recently elected Omar-Pierre Soubra as President.

Mr Soubra succeeds Bob Snyder, who led RMFACC to become the most active and largest of the European Chambers of Commerce in Denver. “This vital Rocky Mountain Chapter of the French American Chamber of Commerce is poised for substantial growth right now,” said Virginie Ganivet, Executive Director. “Omar Soubra’s qualifications are aligned with our needs. He brings years of successful international sales and marketing to help further this growth.”

Omar Soubra is currently the director of Techno-Marketing Innovation at Trimble Navigation. A French native, Mr Soubra has been developing a team of professional marketers in different parts of the world. He has been with Trimble Navigation, the leader in positioning solutions, for over 13 years, in various roles, from European Sales manager to Portfolio/Market Manager. In addition to his marketing communications responsibilities, Omar is an innovator at heart and holds several patents that have been developed and used in current products and solutions.

Caterpillar, the world’s leading construction equipment manufacturer, boasts 250 plants around the globe—including one right here in Grenoble-Isère that turns 50 this year. Although Caterpillar’s Grenoble plant did face some strong headwinds during the economic crisis, its future looks bright. Between now and 2013 the company will invest $50 million in modernizing its production lines. Caterpillar France CEO Eric Lepine talked to us about the yellow behemoth’s history here in Grenoble and the record-breaking investments just over the horizon.

Grenoble-Isère—located in the Rhône-Alpes region, home to France’s second-largest regional economy after Greater Paris/Ile-de-France—is a microcosm of the country’s powerful, diversified industrial base. Hemmed in by mountains and rivers, Grenoble-Isère does not let geographical limitations hinder its growth. The area continues to attract investment in industry, even in sluggish economic times. But is Grenoble-Isère’s stellar performance a mere coincidence, or is it the result of a carefully planned and executed economic development strategy?

Meet the Grenoble-Isere cluster players at SEMICON EUROPE 2011 in Dresden
October 11-13th, 2011 - FRENCH PAVILION #2.044

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Grenoble-Isere, France
An Exceptional Ecosystem for Innovation

• Develop your business in FRANCE'S smart valley
• Meet with potential industrial and research partners: CEA-LETI, France’s stellar research center for MICRO&NANOELECTRONICS, MINALOGIC, the French major cluster for MICRO&NANOTECHNOLOGIES, and other top players and equipment suppliers
• Take advantage of Grenoble/Dresden reinforced partnership for sustaining and supporting micro electronics in Europe

COME AND JOIN US AT FRANCE’S PAVILION for the WINE & CHEESE PARTY
ON WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12th, 5.00 PM!! (sponsored by soitec & minalogic)

Exhibiting on the French pavilion at SEMICON Europe:

• AFELIM – French professional organization for printed electronics - www.afelim.fr
• AGILEO Automation – automation & industrial software www.agileo-automation.com
• ALPSITEC - CMP machine manufacturer - www.alpsitec.com/
• ARDEJE - Industrial inkjet printing - www.ardeje.com/
• CERADROP - inkjet printers for functional material deposition for printed electronics - www.ceradrop.fr
• FOGALE NANOTECH - high accuracy dimensional metrology. www.fogale.fr
• GENES’INK - nanoparticles with nonlinear optical properties
• IBS / Ion Beam Services - Ion implantation prod. & services. www.ion-beam-services.com
• INNODYS - micro et nanotechnology equipment distributor - www.innodys.com
• ISORG- Organic and Printed Electronics devices for large-area photonics and image sensors - www.isorg.fr
• CEA-LETI - a world class applied research center for microelectronics - www. www-leti.cea.fr
• CEA-LITEN - Future Energy Technologies France’s research center- www-liten.cea.fr/index_uk.htm
• MINALOGIC –Global competitive cluster for intelligent miniaturized products and solutions for industry. www.minalogic.com
• SEMCO QUALIFLOW - Innovative solutions for UHP gas systems - www.qualiflow.com
• RENATECH -Research network 8 national nano-fabrication facilities - www.cnano.fr
• SOITEC - Advanced semiconductor materials for electronic and energy industries (SOI -Silicon-on-Insulator)- www.soitec.com
• STMicroelectronics - one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies – www.st.com
• WAFER Solution – wafer thinning, distressing & polishing- www.wafersolution.fr

Meet the Grenoble-Isere Health Cluster at ADVAMED 2011 in Washington DC, 26-28 Sept 2011 Grenoble/ EuroMedTech booth # 436

2011, August 24th – Developer’s Helsinki, Finnish web software development company, has decided to launch its Netmonitor web analytics product in France. In order to provide French customers the best service, the company has chosen to launch in Grenoble (Isère - 38), with the collaboration of AEPI agency. Grenoble is known for its strong innovative clusters and networks, and Developer’s Helsinki is counting on it in order to make Netmonitor the referent web analytics tool for SMEs in France.

Cost savings—in the form of lower energy bills—have generally come in ahead of environmental concerns as the main motivating factor for the development of green IT. That is, until now. Today, both IT developers and users are placing environmental concerns at the center of their IT development. And the benefits touch an increasingly wider community beyond IT professionals. It comes as no surprise that some of the latest advances in Green IT are made right here in Grenoble-Isère.

Cleanroom in CEA-Léti - ©Artechnique

Under the French government’s economic stimulus package (“Invest in the Future”), six technology research institutes will be created to pool existing public and private research facilities and support them with new resources. These multi-disciplinary institutes will focus on developing marketable technologies. The international selection jury gave top marks to Grenoble’s proposal for a nanoelectronics institute, confirming the city’s leading position in this burgeoning field. The new institute will help Grenoble reach its goal of becoming one of the world’s top three hubs for micro and nanotechnology.

Jez Wain, Unix Systems Infrastructure Architect at Bull in Grenoble

Bull is not just Europe’s leading provider of critical IT systems; the company also designed Europe’s fastest supercomputer, capable of performing a quadrillion calculations per second. Bull’s Grenoble-based R&D center has its sights set on boosting the energy-efficiency of data centers—a crucial element of today’s increasingly connected digital world.

AEPI is conducting a prospection and promotion mission in the field of semiconductors in Pittsburgh from Juin 2nd to June 3rd. Manager: Sharon Rehbinder in partnership with Pittsburgh Regional Alliance and Pennsylvania Center for the Commercialization of Nanomaterials

> AEPI, together with CORA, will lead the latest in its continuing activities in Colorado in the field of Renewable Energies, this time with a particular emphasis on smart grids and hydroelectricity. In the itinerary May 4-6 are one-on-one meetings, round-table and other presentations, visits of NREL, the zero-energy district in Fort Collins (Fort ZED) and various industrial sites, as well as meetings with politicians and academia. The group from Grenoble includes Mr. Cottalorda, AEPI president, Mr. Chardon, TENERRDIS president, Mrs. Jordanov, GrIPartners president, Mr. Binet, CGIsere vice-president in charge of Economy, and others from industry and research. Contact: Veronique Pequignat et Sharon Rehbinder

> International conference on embedded systems. A booth will present Grenoble-Isere and several research and industrials actors from Grenoble-Isere.

Discover Europe's research center in micro and nanotech & embedded systems

Contact: Sharon Rehbinder, in partnership with Minalogic, CEA-Léti & UbiFrance

Tomorrow’s leading companies will gather in Grenoble-Isere, France, to present more than 150 innovative technologies.

For its third edition Grenoble Innovation Fair is broadening its scope to cover more new or emerging innovations in Europe, welcoming 150 start-ups and laboratories in an exhibition space dedicated to networking with industry and technology demonstrations.
This international event, the only one of its kind in France, is being staged by three Grenoble organizations which have pooled their resources to bring together for two days new ventures with high-growth potential, research laboratories, industrial firms and innovative SMEs.

The fair is expecting more than 1,500 participants, eager to extend their innovation networks, identify opportunities for new partnerships and discover

For more information:

contact@grenoble-innovation-fair.com
www.grenoble-innovation-fair.com

http://twitter.com/innovation_fair

The NANOSCIENCES FOUNDATION launches a call for 3 Chairs of Excellence.

The Nanosciences Foundation

The Nanosciences Foundation is fostering research in Grenoble (France) focused on "Nanosciences at the frontiers of nanoelectronics”. The Foundation is supporting a network of 32 laboratories gathering about 1000 scientists across the various research institutions based in Grenoble. The Foundation's main goals are to foster a world-class Nanosciences Research in the network's laboratories by encouraging collaborative and multidisciplinary projects.

Web 2.0 Expo is a conference and tradeshow for everyone who cares about embracing and extending the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.

AEPI will prospect companies.