The Observatory of Innovations 3

This temporary exhibition is presenting the complex process of innovations, its stakes and its applications, and presents several concrete examples.



This third edition explores :
- The world of supercomputers, illustraded Bull and le CEA ( French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission)
- Innovations in the tire, for a sustainable mobility with Michelin
- Molecules, innovating process and life cycle of chemical products today, with Rhodia, member of the Solvay group
- Innovation in the small businesses with the APCMA ( small businesses chamber of crafts)

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The Partners of this exhibition :

► Innovation in the small businesses with



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► The world of supercomputers with



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► Innovations in the tire, for a sustainable mobility with



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► Molecules, innovating process and life cycle of chemical products today with



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Creation of Universcience Partenaires (UP)

Universcience Partenaires, created in December 2011, succeeds to Fondation Villette-Entreprises.
On the 21th December 2011, UP had its first Board of Directors in la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie.

UP keeps the same missions:
- Initiating a new form of partnership, lasting and constructive, between the business community and science centres and museums to promote public awareness of science and technology
- Developing collaborations with science museums, particularly Universcience, in France and abroad.
- It will sustain all the different Universcience programs and will develop its own programs or those proposed by its founders.

UP is presided by Louis Gallois and Claudie Haigneré, President of Universcience: is the Vice-President.
Since the Cité's opening, and then Universcience, there have been more than 150 projects (exhibitions, events, conferences) involving nearly 320 partnerships with more than 150 companies, federations or research organizations representing an investment on their part of more than 50 million euros.

Transport and mankind

La Cité des sciences et de l'industrie has just opened a new permanent exhibition about mobility « Transports and Men », which will be inaugurated the October 6th 2011.

This exhibition is sponsored by five big actors of the transportation sector:













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