Protection
Protecting research results is crucial for innovation and paves the way for scientific advances to be transformed into benefits for society.
The CNRS encourages and supports technology transfer, in which research results are transformed into concrete and long-lasting innovations that benefit both companies and society.
Innovation at the CNRS means drawing on outstanding results from scientific research to develop new products and solutions that will tangibly change lives. Every year, CNRS and its partner laboratories produce remarkable breakthroughs. A conscious and deliberate innovation policy helps these breakthroughs to progress through to society.
The CNRS's innovation policy is based on 3 major areas:
Protecting research results is crucial for innovation and paves the way for scientific advances to be transformed into benefits for society.
Partnership with companies is the bedrock of the CNRS’s technology transfer policy.
With discussions, lectures, exhibitions, speakers, demonstrations and much more, VivaTech is Europe’s biggest innovation event. The CNRS has taken part in this unmissable rendez-vous since 2019.
Here, among the major innovations that will shape tomorrow’s society and the leading trends that are feeding into today’s research, the CNRS presents the countless innovations that have been produced in its laboratories and by its start-ups.
Created in 2011, the CNRS innovation medal honours those women and men whose exceptional research has led to a significant technological, therapeutic or social innovation that raises the profile of French scientific research.
This medal highlights significant breakthroughs that transfer from public research to the market.
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