RESEARCH PROMOTION • Audit of the validity of a score of patents for industrial and marketing projects, on behalf of CENG/CEA. Assistance in transferring 5 patents to industrial developers after studies of the markets concerned. • Market survey prior to the creation of a company to develop a system of surface control by retro-diffusion, resulting from a CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) research laboratory. First steps in extraneous partnerships, including one with the Atomic Study Centre (CEA). • Audit of university and engineering school research laboratories in the Rhone-Alps region of France to pinpoint transferable technologies and facilitate links between the university and the industrial worlds. • Feasibility study prior to the creation of interfaces sent to engineering schools to facilitate research-to-business links. • Audit of a promotional project for an industrial water purification process developed in a French university. • Study of promotional conditions for molecular modelling software developed in a CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) laboratory. Establishment of a France-Foreign partnership to adapt the software to the needs of a French industrialist. • Audit of a company-creation project born of experiments carried out in the search for a university laboratory for label-approval purposes, official approval for all products in contact with drinking water (in response to a European directive). • Heading up a partnership research project in Europe and North America to launch a company to exploit results springing from the research results of a scientific foundation and a Swiss cantonal hospital specialised in cancer care. • Transfer assistance, market research and finding partners for a plasma projection technology applied to the dentistry sector, developed in a CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) laboratory. • Market research, transfer assistance, finding partners on the North American continent to exploit monitoring technology of physiological signs (neurological insufficiency) developed in a CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) laboratory. • Application research, market research, transfer aid for the technology of an ISFET sensor, in various sectors. Technology developed in collaboration with CNRS/IFREMER/ECL, the National Scientific Research Centre, the French Oceanographic Institute, Ecole Centrale de Lyon (an engineering college)