Valuations
Our collaborative approach
Les activités de valorisation et de transfert de technologie constituent aussi une composante de l’activité des laboratoires de recherche. L’IRIMAS est particulièrement actif dans ce domaine, et a une grande tradition de travail partenarial avec l’industrie et de valorisation de ses travaux.
These collaborative research contracts range from one-time service provision to prototype development, including support for industrial theses, whether under the CIFRE program or not. IRIMAS therefore has a long tradition of working with numerous partners in the industrial sector, both in France and abroad, ranging from startups and very small businesses to global corporations. In recent years, these have included (non-exhaustive list): Acouvib, Actimage, Advencis, Airbus, BeamPulse, Diehl Metering, Faurecia, Goodyear, Lagardère Active, LeBronze Alloys, MDPI, Novatech, Renault, Valeo…
Startups born from the Institute
TraceCard
The Alsace region was selected as a pilot site in collaboration with driving schools for the Franco-Norwegian TraceCard project (TRAining Capabilities for Efficient CAR Driving), which led to the creation in 2011 of the startup MoveCoach in Mulhouse to distribute the driver training system.
Pertech
Finally, it should be noted that the company Pertech, founded in 2004 by a former student of the laboratory and specializing in eye-tracking services, is one of France’s leading companies in the field.
LightVision
In 2011, the company LightVision, which is developing a miniaturized device that generates images directly on the retina regardless of the eye’s position, has set up operations in Mulhouse to take advantage of the laboratory’s expertise in eye-tracking. The company has since been selected by the Institut de la Vision in Paris to develop its project.
Evaluant, itsLearning & ObjeXion
Two older companies, Evaluant (2001) and itsLearning (formerly Infostance) (1998) also successfully transitioned from startup to SME. ObjeXion had been founded a year earlier.
BeamPulse
In 2012, the joint efforts of MIPS and LMIA—which would later merge to form IRIMAS—led to the creation of the company BeamPulse specializing in the behavioral analysis of internet users.
Intellectual Property and Software Outreach
Enfin, la valorisation des travaux de l’IRIMAS se fait aussi au travers de dépôts de brevets, en nom propre ou en collaboration avec des industriels. Depuis 2004, un quarantaine de brevets ont ainsi été déposés, ainsi que plusieurs brevets logiciels et déclarations de logiciels (Sintaks a été déposé avec l’INRIA et TOSCANA avec l’INSERM et l’Université de Rennes).
D’autres travaux ont fait l’objet d’intégration dans des logiciels tiers : par exemple, les modèles de formation d’images en microscopie de fluorescence que nous avons développés ont été intégrés dans deux logiciels : ImageTrak (Peter K. Stys – University Calgary) et Cosmos (C. Preza – Washington University) et dans la librairie Insight Toolkit (ITK – www.itk.org) (Cory Quammen, University of North Carolina). The tools developed for image processing in electron microscopy have been compiled into a MATLAB toolbox called ANIMATED-TEM (ANalysis of IMages for Automatic Targeting and Extraction of Data in Transmission Electron Microscopy).