Lille Metropole
6 clusters
The Lille area excels in several economic sectors and the French State has thus granted it five clusters labels.
I-TRANS, THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY AT THE HEART OF INNOVATIVE TRASNPORT SYSTEMS
Become the first European competitiveness cluster to win worldwide recognition for excellence in
the design, manufacture, competitive operation and maintenance of innovative transport systems
with leading positions in terms of market share, capacity for technical innovation, growth and
attractiveness.
4 strategic themes :
- Interoperability,
- Intermodality for freight or passengers,
- Intelligent transport systems,
- Inovation for economic development,
TRADE INDUSTRIES
This Cluster has set itself 4 objectives for the coming decade:
- to develop decision-making centres and strategic functions within the region
- to become a globally recognized laboratory where the trade of the future is invented and tested
- to have leading companies (in their respective fields) on all the major consumer markets in the world
- to turn "Lille Metropole" into the international capital city for the trade of the future.
UP-TEX
Its mission is to bring together and assist all the stakeholders in the textile-clothing sector in the field of innovative textiles and customization thanks to proven economic, industrial, scientific, marketing and technological skills.
"UP-tex", acting as the network's promoter, works in close cooperation with all the scientific, technical and economic resources at a regional, national and international level. It encourages companies to participate in innovation and R&D projects aiming at creating new offers in products and services so as to conquer new markets.
NUTRITION, HEALTH, LONGEVITY
This Pole was jointly established by the scientific community and industrialists working in the fields
of Biology/health and Agro-Food. It promotes, and contributes to, research partnerships in the
field of functional food, nutritional additives and foods to prevent diseases associated with
metabolic disorders and ageing (diabetes, obesity, hypertension...).
R&D general themes :
- Formulation and development of foods and functional ingredients,
- Identifying, then validating new biological targets,
- Selecting molecules likely to act on such targets and controlling their synthesis and integration into a food, ingredient or drug,
- Developing and improving suitable preventing pratices.
MAUD, MATERIALS FOR DOMECTIC USE
Set up in 2005, located in Villeneuve d’Ascq (in the North of France), the MAUD Competitiveness Cluster (Materials and Applications for a Sustainable Use) produces economic development through innovation in the fields of chemistry and materials.
The MAUD Cluster targets three key markets : tableware, graphic industries and packaging. It moves towards three innovation strategies : to develop new products, process and services, to improve material features, and to integrate Sustainable Development (according to the European Union regulation REACH).
To date the MAUD Cluster counts sixty members : companies (whose 45 % are small and medium-sized businesses), research laboratories and training centres.
Among its various projects : MATBAR (“MATériau BARrière” – barrier material), DECARTE (“DEveloppement de CARton Electronique” – development of electronic cardboard) and DECOUVERRE (“DECoration Organique et nUmérique sur VERRE” - organic & numerical decoration on glass).
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