Created last June on the occasion of the Paris digital creation fair “Futur en Seine”, Normandy Digital Life is the result of the collective efforts of Normandy-based players involved in developing and promoting digital technologies. They are now joining forces to promote their skills and know-how.
New generation more eco-friendly boats - such is the challenge Marethix Industries SAS has decided to take on. Construction of this type of boat will be launched in 2012, in Caen la Mer, on the Norlanda 3 site (formerly occupied by Yachts Industries) in Mondeville.
Under the impetus of SUPPLYWEB, the brand new logistics platform devoted to e-commerce (based in Mondeville), a group of thirty Normandy-based e-traders have joined forces in the form of the Club Normand E-Commerce.
The 2nd edition of Carrefour des Possibles was held on the 13th of October 2011 Ten innovative consumer usages were presented: O-HARAS, POPULARISER LES SPORTS EQUESTRES, VIZANDGO, KALIBEE, SMARTARA, VES, OPPORTUM, HERACLES, BIOPIC and M-STADIUM.
The Interdisciplinary Project for the Development of Enterprise, Innovation and Strategy has recently launched its IDEIS platform. IDEIS is a university project focusing on the evaluation of business capacities and needs in the field of innovation, and on the production of associated assessments and diagnostic reports.
At the age of 27, Jérôme Parcq, a researcher in biotechnologies at the Inserm research unit 919 in Caen, has just created a start-up to develop a new treatment option for cerebrovascular accidents (CVA - commonly referred to as stroke).
Just over a year after the closure of ST Ericsson in Colombelles, two new businesses, created by former employees, are now established within the science park: BlinkSight and E.D.E Labs.
CAEN LA MER / NORMANDY LEADER IN MOBILE CONTACTLESS TECHNOLOGY
Campus EffiScience, located in the urban community of Caen la mer (Normandy), is the first specialized science park on “Interactive mobile devices” technologies. Main items developed : e-money, automation, transport, information, entertainment, health, administration….
The e-secure transactions cluster TES as well as NXP, Ipdia and Presto Engineering (3 companies members of SITELESC), are fully involved in the growth of these technologies in Normandy.
Specialised in the field of spatial navigation and star tracking systems, via image acquisition and processing, computer science and mathematics, Starnav recently developed its Head & Eye Pilot project, in partnership with the Caen University Hospital and Caen University and funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency) and the Lower Normandy Regional Council.
If you are behind a project involving digital technology - if your project involves innovative consumer use for the present or the future… why not apply to take part in the forthcoming “Carrefour des Possibles” organised by the Lower Normandy Regional Council within the framework of the i2N (Innovation Numérique Normande - Normandy Digital Innovation) programme and the FING (Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération - New Generation internet Foundation). To apply: http://fing.org/?- Carrefour-des-possibles