Accelerating innovation: the CNRS creates its 200th LabCom

O    The CNRS is celebrating the creation of its 200th active joint laboratory bringing together the organisation and its academic partners with a company.   - o    On average, a joint laboratory (LabCom) is created every 15 days. o    Nearly half of the research focuses on energy and materials (48%), in addition to digital technology (20%) and the life sciences (13%). Over 80 patents and 20 software programs are jointly registered each year. o    The result of years of work and mutual trust, these LabComs can remove the scientific and technological obstacles specific to companies. To mark the creation of the 200th active joint laboratory bringing together the CNRS and its partners with companies, the organisation is taking stock of one of the most accomplished and sought-after collaborations between the worlds of public research and industry. With a joint laboratory created every fifteen days, and the hundreds of innovations that have emerged from them, these flexible structures have proved crucial in removing scientific and technological obstacles.