Key players in business development and innovation in Savoie invite local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to attend the 12th annual “Research, Develop, Diversify” (RDV) conference on Thursday, April 4, 2019, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Le Manège Convention Center in Chambéry.
This year, the theme of the conference will be:The Circular Economy: A Driver of Innovation and Growth.
The circular economy aims to rethink the life cycle of products, from design through to end of life, by optimizing resource use and minimizing environmental impacts.
The aim of this annual meeting is to enable local businesses to expand their operations, identify opportunities for collaboration, and create added value for their employees by leveraging technological solutions.
On the agenda
This is an opportunity to benefit from individual meetings over the course of a morning with 27 regional players: competitiveness clusters, clusters, laboratories, platforms, technical centers, and innovation support organizations.
- At 8 a.m.: Welcome to participants
- 20-minute individual meetings with exhibitors
- A friendly opportunity to chat over a buffet
- And throughout the event:
- Innovation Showroom
- Impromptu meetings with doctors, professors, and doctoral students
This event is organized by the Savoie branch ofthe Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Entreprises agency and Chambéry Grand Lac, with support from the City of Chambéry.
Savoie Mont Blanc University is participating in the 12th edition of RDV
This event brings together competitiveness clusters, industry clusters, platforms, and technical centers, as well as innovation support organizations and research laboratories—including five from the University of Savoie Mont Blanc:
- Center for Public and Private Law on Obligations and Consumer Affairs (CDPPOC): Legal expertise on emerging projects (contractual issues, liability, rights and freedoms, energy law, consumer law, health, digital law, practices, etc.);
- Institute for Research in Management and Economics (IREGE): environment, sustainable consumption, tourism, and organizational innovation and development – marketing studies, strategic analyses;
- Laboratory of Molecular Chemistry and the Environment (LCME): expertise in environmental and sustainable chemistry, recycling of strategic metals, recovery of waste and plant biomass, analysis of pollutants in air, water, and soil, and wastewater treatment;
- Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry of Materials and Interfaces (LEPMI): performance properties, photovoltaics, insulation, permeation, fuel cells, polymers, composites, perovskites, microstructure formation and control, aging, characterization;
- Laboratory for Design Optimization and Environmental Engineering (LOCIE): recyclable materials with low embodied energy, renovation, recovery of waste heat, life cycle analysis.
- Booths for female and male professors and doctoral students at USMB
Learn more
- For more information about the event
- List of exhibitors and full program
- Contact: The organizing team : Christel Jacquet / 04 79 25 36 19
