A partnership offer organised by field
Our strategy is organised around fields with high innovation potential and five Carnot Institutes that cover our three specialty research areas of agriculture, food and the environment.
5 Carnot Institutes
The Carnot network is an original and effective system to support business innovation. The five Carnot Institutes led by INRAE – 3BCAR, France Futur Elevage, Qualiment, Plant2Pro and Water and the Environnment – are committed to facilitating and professionalising relationships with socio-economic partners, and especially start-ups and SMEs, along with larger companies.
The four Carnot Institutes (3BCAR, France Futur Elevage, Qualiment and Plant2Pro) have been ISO 9001-certified since 2015 with a view to ensuring quality research contracts with companies:
- Staff specifically trained on partnerships with businesses
- A project team and point of contact are designated during the research contract negotiation
- Fast-tracked contractualisation process (<6 months)
- Successful research partnerships
- Satisfied businesses and researchers
Director: Catherine Renard
Project Officer: Anne Nahant
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President: Michael O’Donohue
Director: Jean Tayeb
Project Officers: Coraline Caullet
and Laure Akomia
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15 innovation fields
The Institute is in constant interaction with its stakeholders to actively contribute to forging new paths for innovation. It is focusing its efforts on 15 innovation fields:
| Innovation field | INRAE Partnership and Innovation Officers |
| PlantInnov | thomas.goujon@inrae.fr / laurence.garmendia-auckenthaler@inra.fr |
| Biological Control | cecilia.multeau@inrae.fr |
| Custom Breeding |
xavier.vignon@inrae.fr / sarah.campredon@inrae.fr |
| Animal Genetics | didier.boichard@inrae.fr / herve.garreau@inrae.fr |
| Innovations for livestock health | mustapha.berri@inrae.fr |
| Personalised Nutrition | sylvie.bardon@inrae.fr |
| The Building Blocks of Healthy Food | alain.kondjoyan@inrae.fr |
| Microorganisms for Human and Animal Nutrition and Health | angele.charrier@inrae.fr |
| Proteins for Human and Animal Nutrition | jean-michel.chardigny@inrae.fr |
| Urban Agriculture and Food | francoise.maxime@inrae.fr |
| Biorefinery and Biobased Products |
diana.garcia-bernet@inrae.fr / jean-francois.ballester@inrae.fr |
| Forestry and Trees | christian.ginisty@inrae.fr |
| Water, Soils and Effluents | nathalie.schnebelen@inrae.fr |
| Digital Agriculture | denis.allard@inrae.fr/ frederic.vigier@inrae.fr |
| Agroecological Transition of Food Systems | medulline.terriergesbert@inrae.fr |
The innovation fields are developed through partnerships to:
- Promote a vision and foster dialogue
- Listen and understand demands
- Imagine disruptive innovations
- Anticipate the impacts
They build on what INRAE does best by:
- Drawing from our teams’ scientific expertise
- Mobilising the Institute’s facilities and resources
- Broadening our partnership network