Overview of nanoscience

and nanotechnology policies in France, 2005

3rd Global Nano Network Conference

Dr.Françoise Roure
CGTI

Saarbrücken, 2005-05-26
 3 presentations in one…
• 1. Nanosciences and nanotechnology
french policy in 2005
• 2.MINATEC in Grenoble Region
• 3.MINALOGIC cluster project
2005 ( complexity management)
 Overview of nanoscience
and nanotechnologies policies in France, 2005
MAIN TRENDS:
Convergence of bottom up and top down approaches

1. An increasing Public and Private partnership

2. A new coordinating agency for 2005-2007
3. Incentives to SMEs acting in centers of
excellence
4. Increased recruitment for fundamental research
 NANO French national policy :
main objectives
• Support scientific and technological platforms

• Public spending for the best academic projects, with

networking between laboratories

• Incentives for networking between public and private

laboratories and innovative SMEs

• Initiatives and full participation in EU Nano R&D

programs ( MEDEA, PIDEA, EURIMUS, NanoSci-ERA)
NANO in France: public focus on the
following fields

• NanoMaterials
• Quantum information
• Organization and self- assembly of nano
objects
• Individual objects, elementary components
• NanoBiosciences
 Overview of nanoscience
and nanotechnologies policies in France, 2005

MAIN ACTORS FOR NANO R&D:

- Min.EFI, Min Recherche ( including universities),
Min.Defense
- Other Public entities
- CNRS, CEA and ONERA
(fundamental and applied research)
- ANR ( applied research with PPP)
-OSE0/ANVAR (SMEs)
 Overview of nanoscience
and nanotechnologies policies in France, 2005
• An increasing number of enterprises
involved in the nanofield :
– large groups : ST Microelectronics, Thales,
EADS, Alcatel, Saint-Gobain, Rhodia,
Freescale, Philips, Biomerieux
– SMEs ( Tracit, Xenocs…)
– Starts up linked to technological platfoms and
laboratories
 French national program in
nanosciences: Some financial indicators
• Capital investment in nanosciences (fundamental
research): 184M€
• Annual expenditure: 150M€. 1200 researchers
involved
– 12 M€ in 2004 for incentive actions
– 100M€/ 4 years in support for infrastructures and networks
• Agence nationale de la Recherche ( ANR). Creation
january 2005. Will support newly created Réseau
national nanosciences nanotechnologies ( R3N).
70M€ in 2005
ANR/ R3N priorities for 2005-2007

• Nano Scientific and tech. Platforms in technopoles

Grenoble, Toulouse, Lille, and Franche-Comté et
Ile de France regions
• Best fundamental research projects based upon
academic labs networking
• Best applied research developed by public-private
and SMEs labs networking
• Calls for tender : beginning april 2005:
Nanoelectronic components, nanomaterials,
nanobiosciences
A special effort to support innovative
and new SMEs
• ANVAR Agency and BDPME bank to join efforts
under OSEO group
• Projects characterized by a high level of financial
risk and high innovative potential for applications
• Loans to be reimbursed if and when economic
sustainability is proven.
• 52M€/Y, including 20M€ in nanotechnologies
 NanoSci-ERA:
an important project emerging in 2005
from a french initiative ( CNRS/CEA)
- Consortium of 12 national research organisms over
9 EU Member States + Israel. Represents the
majority of european research and an important
part of the world fundamental research in
nanosciences
- Agreed by European Commission in march 2005
- To coordinate national programs and provide
orientations for the 7th Framework 2007-2013
 Nanosci-ERA roadmap : 5 WP
• Developing relations among the Partners - FR
• Implementating transnational research - DE
• Tending to the needs of the research community - NL
• Extending nanoscience cooperation - AT
• Embedding nanoscience research in Society- UK
– Potential benefits and risks
– Public information
– Atttracting the young

– Call for tenders mid 2006

 France in favor of an initiative for
a responsible international dialogue : 2005
• 1. « Homeworks preparatory actions»:
– an interdiciplinary commission in CNRS to address societal aspects created in 2005
– R3N to coordinate research related to ethics, health and environment issues coming
from nano applications
– Communication and dissemination program for 2005-2006 .
• 2. As a EU member state :
– support for european conferences and workshops, in particular European Science
Foundation Nano-Information science and technology/NIST forum
– Support for CEN WG 166 and ISO cooperative approach for nano, including
classification, characterization and risks / societal aspects
– Support for the international initiatives of European Commission ( follow up of
Alexandria/ VA meeting, june 2004)
• 3. As an active Nation in the international area:
– Bilateral programs, events and participations outside EU ( US, Japan…)
– Other multinational dynamics ( G8…)
 A mission for 3rd GNN ?
• June 2004 :Alexandria meeting agreed on the limits of a
classical costs/benefits approach because of the unknown
unknows of converging transformational nanotechnologies
in the long run
• September 2004: EU/EC NTW Foresight 2020 and its
final event: Participants fully supported the creation of a
European Societal Observatory of Converging
Technologies, ( ESOCT) beginning with
nanotechnologies, proposed by French expert.
• May 2005 : GNN to identify the project of a international
cooperative approach on defining an ongoing normative
risk assessment methodology for worldwide nano-RDTE ?
 Minatec, for a cross-the-board
in nanoscience, micro and nanotechnology
• Training
• Constantly evolving initial
• and continuous training courses
• Strengthen partnerships at a regional,
• national and international level:
• _ proposing engineer’s and master’s degree courses,
• ranging from nanoscience to its applications,
• _ creating new european degrees.
• Adapt continuous professional training
• to suit corporate demands.
• Develop hands-on training
• on new technology platforms.
• Set up at the Minatec Centre:
• _ two engineering schools and a part of INP Grenoble’s
• Telecommunications Department,
• _ the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (Cime)
• and its platform, the largest in France,
• _ continuous professional training with
• the Microelectronics and Microsystems Continuous
• Training Centre (an INP Grenoble and CEA Grenoble
• partnership) and INSTN/CEA Grenoble.
• •
• Research
• potential centred
• on nanoscience, micro and
nanotechnology
• and their integration in electronic
systems
• Encourage close links between upstream,
• technology and applied research.
• Bring together, in specific buildings, skills in:
• _ nanotechnology,
• _ heterogeneous integration,
• _ optronics and photonics,
• _ microsystems,
• _ system design and integration,
• _ instrumentation for biotechnology,
• _ smart devices,
• _ telecommunications,
• _ various forms of usage.
• Promote pluridisciplinary working
• and explore new themes.
• Regroup research laboratories at the Centre:
• _ CEA Leti and CEA Grenoble laboratories,
• _ university (INP Grenoble and Université Joseph Fourier)
and CNRS-affiliated laboratories regrouped within
• the micro and nanotechnology federation (FMNT-RA).
M INALOGIC
MIcro NAnotechnologies et LOgiciel Grenoble-Isère Compétitivité
Miniturized Intelligent Solutions

Grenoble - Isère
 Miniaturization and intelligence in
products :
Stake :
a challenge for industrial competitivity
to move the competitive battle from a playing field based on
low cost production to one based on speed of innovation,
value-added products and services

Consumer products and traditional industrial products become commodities

Agressive competition from countries with low production costs

Ability to rapidly copy new products

Industrial actors need to deliver a triple response to the

competition
By creating highly differentiated products
Miniaturized
Intelligent and communicative
Launch innovative products quickly and more frequently
Develop service based activities (and hence jobs) around these innovative products
 Strategy of the cluster

A strategy at two levels

Reinforce basic technology in the
domaines of micro and nanotechnologies
and embedded software

Develop highly differentiated solutions in terms of

miniaturization, system intelligence, and
connectivity
 Projects to address the strategic
challenges
The new projects of Minalogic aim at managing the complexity that is hidden
behind the simplicity of use offered by Miniaturized Intelligent Solutions

Four challenges :
Anticipate
n technological Manage the conception
o and design of complex circuits
breakthroughs
in nanoelectronics The project GIN Computer Aided Design, led by
STMicroelectronics, will optimize high production
The project GIN (Growth Initiative for yields, time to market and the growing complexity of
Nanoelectronics) Centre for Materials circuits
led by SOITEC, responds to this challenge

Connect devices Manage the development

p with their environment
qofSolutions
Miniaturized Intelligent
The projects imager, image The project EmSoC (Embedded Systems on
chain, large area electronics Chip) : Mobility, intelligent energy management and
and MEMS to market respond related tools in the Centre for Integration address
to this area this challenge
 Two Technology Projects

GIN : Growth Initiative for Nanoelectronics will reinforce the leading position in materials,
avanced architectures and design.
A stategic point, embedded software, will be the centerpoint of the intensive development program to
integrate materials and embedded software onto devices : EmSoC (Embedded Systems on
Chip)

Miniaturized Intelligent Solutions

« Core competence »

Micro nano Embedded

SOFTWARE
technologies software
 Applied Projects

The two technology projects reinforce the Grenoble-Isère cluster to allow the development of
miniaturized intelligent solutions

Examples of Intelligent Markets

Miniaturized Solutions
Project R&D : intelligent energy management Energy
(Ex : the autonomous networked switch) Efficiency

Project R&D : MOBILITY

Connectivity
(Ex : NOMADIK, the new multimedia companion) Mobility

Project R&D : NANOBIO in collaboration with Bio Lyon Biology

(Ex : lab on chip)
Health

Project R&D : Imagers Image

(Ex : CMOS imager for X-ray mammography ) Chaîn

Project R&D : Electronics on flexible substrates Traditional

(Ex : technology rich textiles ) Industries
MINALOGIC PPP Project : 457 M€ [+ 310 M€]
 Thank you for your attention

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