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Updated on: 28/03/2023
The University of Bordeaux is among the very first patent applicants in the INPI 2022 ranking for the fifth year running. By ranking third university, it is still progressing at the national level and remains in second place at the regional level, behind Safran.
Innovation is the university’s third mission and is a pillar of its strategy. This INPI ranking reflects the institution’s strong commitment to supporting innovation. Protecting results by filing a patent is the first step in transferring these findings to the socio-economic world, and is now a familiar process for researchers at the University of Bordeaux, who are well aware of the importance of industrial property issues. On the ground, the transfer of research outcomes, in particular by the university's Research and development department and transfer subsidiary SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert, is also bearing fruit.
The National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) is the French office in charge of patents, trademarks and industrial design rights. In only a few years, the list of the main INPI patent applicants has become a national reference. The statistics and analyses it provides are widely used by economic stakeholders as indicators of a company or public institution’s innovation efforts, whatever its size.
Published on March 17th 2023, this ranking establishes the University of Bordeaux as the 31st French applicant and the 3rd French university in the ranking. Safran, Stellantis and the CEA form the top trio of the 2022 edition. 12 public research organisms feature among the 50 first patent applicants.
The university's transfer strategy is part of a fundamental trend driven by public policies. In line with State support measures for deep-tech start-ups (in particular via the Public Investment Bank) and with the arrangements provided in the laws on innovation and the multi-year programming law for research (LPPR), the university has created a “toolbox” to support innovation: a pre-maturation fund, upstream of the SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert maturation fund, an offer to physically host start-ups and companies, the implementation of a human resources system particularly favorable to lecturer-researchers wishing to set up their own company, a responsible policy of sharing intellectual property protection with industrial stakeholders, a structured offer of technological platforms that are open to private partnerships, and a new strategy for investing in laboratory spin-off ventures are the main measures to have been implemented since 2014.
However, the detection of high-level research results in laboratories and the protection of this scientific capital through industrial property deeds remain the two most effective activities that the SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert performs with great success for the University of Bordeaux.
"Filing a patent application on results does not prevent their publication, quite the contrary. You just have to do things in the right order. Having your results covered by a patent attracts the interest of private partners, by providing a guarantee that they are in safe hands if they invest with us. It doesn't block research prospects, and sometimes it even opens up new opportunities." says Eric Papon, Socio-economic and industrial sectors mission officer.
As part of the University of Bordeaux's Horizon 2030 development strategy, InnovationS proposes a broad, renewed approach to innovation and aims to intensify its culture and practices, with the support of a wide network of scientific and socio-economic partners.
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In order to be a major research university, in addition to supporting excellence in research, the university has a proactive policy of development and transfer. Whether with major French and international groups or with start-ups hatched in our laboratories, we build relationships with companies by collaborating on research and building intellectual property together.
