Key figures

A network of 38 Carnot Institutes

• 18% of the French public laboratory workforces, 
  31000 research professionals with more than 9300 PhD
• 50% of the R&D funded by companies in French public research
  9000 R&D contracts with industry (3600 with SMEs – ISEs)

- Over 25200 peer-reviewed articles in 2017 (1/3 of the French peer-reviewed articles)
- 75 spin-off companies spun off per year
- 1020 priority patents filed in 2017 (Second French IP actor)