Develop a collaboration
Companies • Startups • Associations • Public administration
Accelerating innovation at the heart of your business.
Co-creating concrete solutions, and protecting & promoting your innovations. Bringing in doctoral students to help you meet your research challenges.
Together, we transform your ideas into products, services, and processes that will strengthen your competitiveness in the market.
Industry-sponsored PhDs (CIFRE)
A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESSES AND PUBLIC RESEARCH
By recruiting a doctoral student as part of a CIFRE (Industrial Research Training Agreements), you benefit from a support mechanism for research directly linked to your issues and commercial challenges.
Collaborative research projects
COLLABORATING FOR INNOVATION
Research projects are signed each year with companies. These collaborations enable the execution of scientific programs that lead to concrete and applied results.
Technology and Patent Transfer
FROM IDEA TO INNOVATION
Technology transfers allow for transforming research results into concrete innovations. Patent registration protects these inventions and facilitates their commercialization with companies.
As part of my industry-sponsored PhD at the University of Lorraine and the BETA laboratory, I am conducting research on the financial literacy of highly indebted individuals. In collaboration with the Premista group, which specializes in debt consolidation, I am analyzing their behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes toward finance. This partnership illustrates the importance of links between academia and business. By bringing together innovative profiles, it allows scientific expertise to be combined with real-world experience to offer solutions tailored to the challenges of excessive debt.
Our strenghts
Who it’s for
BUILT FOR BUSINESS OUTCOMES
SMEs, mid-caps, large corporates, and public bodies looking to accelerate innovation, validate technologies, or build long-term capability with academic partners.
Collaboration formats
CHOOSE THE RIGHT FORMAT FOR YOUR NEED
Rapid study / Expert review
Feasibility & prototyping
Industry-sponsored PhD (CIFRE)
Contract research
Research chair / joint program
IP, confidentiality & compliance
SECURE BY DESIGN
We define confidentiality and IP rules upfront, distinguishing background and foreground IP. Data protection, ethics, and compliance are integrated into the plan from day one.
What to expect
TIMELINES & OUTCOMES
Scoping: typically 2–4 weeks depending on complexity
First results: in weeks for rapid studies; months for lab-based work
Outputs: documented findings, datasets, prototypes, or validated methods ready for adoption