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2. Research support and orientation
Research activity is supported both by internal funding and by external grants. The latter have reached in 2008
the amount of M€ 6.9. Internal funding includes the part of the State budget dedicated to Research and
subsidies corresponding to the Carnot activity of Institut Télécom. This result confirms the trends observed the
previous year, among which the impact of the funding received for projects with the research clusters.
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Figure 1 - History of external research funding (in k€)
In terms of orientation, three categories of research
activities can be found. “Basic” research, aimed at
improving scientific and technological knowledge, is
carried out by means of public grants in
collaboration with academic laboratories. “Pre
competitive” research is made in partnership with
the economic actors with the objective of solving
basic technological bottlenecks and of preparing
new products and services. It is partially supported
by public bodies, at regional level (for instance
through the research clusters), national level
(National Research Agency and other) or European
level (Framework Programme, Eureka programme).
Companies have also bilateral contracts with
Télécom Bretagne in order to carry out “knowledge
transfer” which brings them new ideas, products
and services. Last, research benefits from public
support for investments, facilities, equipments,
conference organisations, …
Basic Research
Year 2008
2544
Contract
with companies
16%
Support
to Research
6%
Basic Research
37%
Pre-competitive Research
in partnership with economic actors
2 783
Knowledge transfers
under companies contract
Support to Research
1 110
445
41%
Precompetitive
Research
Table 1 : Distribution of external funding for research (en k€)
Figure 2. External funding for research in 2008 (in k€)
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Refering to internal funding, Institut Télécom has
supported with an amount of k€ 414 the
participation in 11 projects and in the innovative
action Jemtu (Mobile games). Moreover, within the
Carnot activity, 19 research actions have been
engaged in 2008 for a total amount of k€ 449 (see
Annex 2-3).