Supporting entrepreneurial researchers

The Businesses, partnerships and innovation department is mainly involved in managing 'early stage' projects, i.e. upstream, when projects are in the first stages of design.
Its missions are to generate and promote the emergence of ideas, to detect emerging projects, to provide support for developing projects, as well as to act as as an interface with the socio-economic sphere.
The department brings together a very wide range of skills, expertise and methodologies, especially in outreach or design thinking so it can respond to external calls for projects in search of funding. In short, it helps an idea become a project.

COREV, the department for technology transfer and research contracts, helps laboratories and researchers set up a framework for their collaboration (advice, negotiating and drafting a contract that will provide the framework for the project, in particular regarding intellectual property) and in their project for promoting their research findings. COREV receives individual requests from lecturer-researchers about business creation, scientific cooperation or holding shares in the capital of a start-up that uses their findings.
The department also provides daily monitoring of the activity of two university affiliates, SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert and ADERA, and it supports the university's Federation of Research Platforms, in particular in opening up to the socio-economic sphere.

The University of Bordeaux and companies are currently involved in over twenty joint research entities.
These entities can take on many different forms (joint laboratories, official positions such as  department chairs, etc.), but as a whole, they pursue a common goal: to meet the technological challenges expressed by industry and the economy, thanks to the pooling of resources and governance shared between companies and academics to co-build a scientific programme.
The SRCom office provides monitoring of these formative partnerships that act as a major lever in promoting research.

In the region, the SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert (AST) is a major player for research institutions like the University of Bordeaux.
Funded by the French government as part of the French Investments for the Future Programme (Programme des Investissements d'Avenir), AST's mission is to evaluate, protect and develop inventions by researchers to support them until the inventions are turned into innovations placed on the market.
The University of Bordeaux relies on its SATT to manage the institution's portfolio of intellectual property and file patents in its name.

ADERA (Association for the Development of Education and Research in Aquitaine) is now a university affiliated company, whose main missions are to support and encourage innovation and relations with industry.

It manages industrial contracts, takes charge of hosting certain platforms and technology transfer cells, and supports the organisation of conferences designed to promote research work.