AEPI, Invest in Grenoble-Isère, FRANCE

• Grenoble Institute of Technology’s School of Informatics, Applied Mathematics, and Telecommunications (ENSIMAG)
• EMSI from Grenoble Ecole de Management
• Grenoble University’s Joseph Fourier School of Science, Technology, and Healthcare
• A doctoral school specializing in mathematics, information science and technology, and informatics (MSTII)

More than 2,000 people are employed in the fields of IT and software R&D at the following public-sector labs:

• The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria)
• The Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG)
• The Grenoble Speech, Image, and Signal Processing and Automation Research Laboratory (GIPSA Lab)
• The Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory for Applied Mathematics and Informatics (LJK)
• The Grenoble Medical Engineering Techniques and Complexity-Informatics, Mathematics, and Applications Laboratory (TIMC-IMAG)
• The Center for Research on Informatics and Microelectronics Techniques for Integrated Systems Architecture (TIMA)
• The Embedded Systems Research Laboratory (VERIMAG)
• The Center for Integration Research for Smart Systems Design (CRI)
•  The CEA Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technologies (CEA-Leti)

The following global market leaders have operations in Grenoble-Isère, where they are developing their R&D activities:

• Apple,
• Atos,
• Bull,
• Capgemini,
• Orange Labs,
• HP,
• Xerox-RCE,
• Oracle,
• Criteo,
• Salesforce.com...

Software manufacturers play a key role in Grenoble-Isère’s IT economy, benefitting from the local presence of diverse stakeholders. 

• The Mathworks,
• Alma,
• Bonitasoft,
• Technidata,
• Reynolds & Reynolds,
• Metrologic...

Digital services companies account for nearly half of all local IT jobs, with major players like:

• Capgemini,
• Atos,
• Business & Decision Eolas,
• CGI, ...

E-commerce has achieved critical mass in Grenoble-Isère, home to pioneers and market leaders like:

• Kelkoo,
• Spartoo,
• Evioo,
• Criteo,
• Photoweb,
• Starzik...

To know more about  IT and software, please download our publications of the sector (pdf)