Competitiveness hubs

Rooted in the regions

Through its schools and subsidiaries, The Institut Télécom is involved in ICST research development at all the main sites (Greater Paris, Brittany and PACA, as well as Lille and Toulouse). Its organization allows a country-wide theme-specific rationale to coexist with local synergy-nurturing endeavors. As a partner of research organizations, industrial firms and territorial communities, the Institut Télécom is playing an important role in efforts to structure regional hubs that have international exposure.

Competitiveness hubs

The Institut Télécom naturally took part in the efforts to build the competitiveness hubs, that DATAR started in November 2004. Based on a regional structure, these hubs represent a means of strengthening partnerships between businesses, education and public research and reinforcing innovation and job creation. In addition to having a high profile internationally, these competitiveness hubs will have an impact locally, the aim being to maintain employment and competitiveness.

On 12 July, the CIADT (Interdepartmental National and Regional Development Committee) labeled 67 competitiveness hubs, 15 of which have an international reach. The CIADT opted to reward some of the competitiveness hubs it labeled, as a mark of their importance for the visibility of French industry on the international stage and their weight in terms of global economic competition.

All the hub projects in which the Institut Télécom was involved were successful :

The Institut Télécom is a player in 5 hubs that are either global or have a global vocation
It is also a partner in 3 other hubs (2 of which are global)

This represents an opportunity for the Institut Télécom to reinforce its partnership momentum: the Institut Télécom is working alongside its major partners in these hubs (France Télécom, Thales, Alcatel, Motorola, EADS, SAGEM, ST Microelectronics, TF1, Lagardère, Thomson, INA, etc.) and will also collaborate with some new ones, including a significant number of SMEs. This will also help to reinforce the Institut Télécom's research strengths in the regions where its schools are located, and further raise its international profile.

The five global hubs or hubs with a global vocation in which the Institut Télécom is a player

Greater Paris

Systém@tic (global hub)
Systématic focuses on software technologies for complex systems and their applications in four sectors :
- telecommunications
- automobile and transport
- defense and security
- digital tools
Key leaders : Thalès, Alcatel, Bull, CS, Dassault, EADS, EDF, FT, Motorola, PSA, Renault, Sagem…
Through Télécom ParisTech and Télécom & Management SudParis , the Institut Télécom is the leading public research partner in the field of telecommunications.
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CAP DIGITAL Paris Région ( ex “Images, Multimedia and the Digital World”) (hub with a global vocation)
Images, Multimedia and the Digital World is a contents and usages hub, focusing on the production, distribution, processing and exchange markets for digital contents.
As such, it is hinged around 3 development axes:
- to reinforce competitiveness and creativity in the creation of digital contents (audiovisual, video games, cinema, animation, music, etc.)
- to understand the usages and markets of the digital world and increase the relevance and competitiveness of multimedia products and services, especially mobile ones
- to improve knowledge engineering and assert itself as an essential player in the knowledge and digital heritage economy
Key leaders : Lagardère, FT, TF1, Editis, INA, Thalès, Motorola and three SME federations
Through Télécom ParisTech and TELECOM & Mangement SudParis, the Institut Télécom contributes its expertise in mobile and nomadic services and usages, multimedia contents processing, knowledge security and engineering.
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PACA

Secured Communicating Solutions (global hub)
Secure Communicating Solutions - From Silicon to Usages integrates key expertise in electronic chips, software and telecoms to transmit, process and exchange information reliably and securely. By responding to the needs of the secure communicating systems and applications market and developing new sectors (tourism, health, the environment, digital identity, traceability, logistics, etc.), the hub also plans to reinforce its global position.
Key leaders : Alcatel Space, Amadeus, Atmel, Cremsi, Gemplus, HP, IBM, SAP, ST,Telecom Valley, Texas Instruments
Through the EURECOM Institute and the laboratories of Télécom ParisTech, located at Sophia Antipolis, the Institut Télécom contributes its expertise in mobile communications, security, “system on chip'” and usage analysis.
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Brittany

Images and Networks (hub with a global vocation)
Images and Networks focuses on research and innovation in new image and contents distribution network technologies and the development of new services for the image and network markets of the future.
Research and development activities will be organized around 7 basic axes:
- image chain services (high definition for television)
- image in mobility (new contents and usages resulting from coupling between the world of broadcasting and mobile communications)
- networks for images (New Generation Internet, radio networks and domestic networks)
- electronic contents distribution (symmetrical distribution chain on IP networks)
- security of networks, contents and personal data
- interoperability and convergence acceptance platforms
- virtual reality and enhanced reality in networks
Key leaders : France Télécom, Thomson, Alcatel, Thalès
Through Télécom Bretagne , the Institut Télécom contributes its expertise in networks, coding, image and usage processing.
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Mer Bretagne (hub with a global vocation)
Mer Bretagne focuses on safety and sustainable development in the maritime field (monitoring systems simulation platform, information management during marine pollution disasters, AUV, underwater imaging and vision, Galileo, oceanographic sensors, etc.).
Led by Brittany and PACA, the hub will benefit from the synergy between these two regions with complementary industrial potential and maritime experience.
Key leaders : Thalès, DCN, Veolia, CRCI, Atlantide…
Through Télécom Bretagne , the Institut Télécom contributes its expertise in maritime communication and remote sensing.
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The other hubs in which the Institut Télécom is involved

The Institut Télécom is also a partner in three further competitiveness hubs, two of which are global :

The Aeronautics, Space System hub in the Midi-Pyrenees region (global hub), supported by the Télécom ParisTech team in Toulouse.
The Méditech Santé (Meditech Health) hub in Ile de France (global hub) , through the partnership between TELECOM & Mangement SudParis and the Evry Genopole.
The Risk management, Vulnerability hub, a joint PACA and Languedoc Roussillon hub.