boost your innovation while minimizing risk

Being part of the innovation circle of b<>com members means benefiting from more expertise, energy, performance, productivity, and reducing risks and costs.

The b<>com innovation circle is a space of trust between industrialists, enriched by academic excellence, to accelerate the transfer of innovative solutions and services to the industry. 

Whether you're a major corporation, an SME, or an academic player, you choose a long-term partnership with b<>com. b<>com produces knowledge, impact, and technology for the primary benefit of its investors. Committing to us is an investment in new opportunities.

b<>com is based on a strategy co-constructed with its members, who thus invest in research projects in which they are interested. This joint venture between industry and academia accelerates research and innovation projects thanks to our state-of-the-art equipment, unique advanced engineering, and high-level, multidisciplinary expertise. b<>com's expertise in engineering and project set-up means we can finance the entire project.

Would you like to find the external skills you need for an innovative project? Pool your R&I investments? Accelerate your access to the market? Benefit from privileged contacts and information? Then join us.

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the effects of the circle

Leverage effect
Reduce your research and innovation costs, pool your resources, divide your risks, benefit from b<>com's project engineering and state aid applications.

Synergies
Create collaborative forces to break down your technological barriers, accelerate your research capacities and anticipate future technological breakthroughs.

Expertise
Expand your skills to support your change, source and resource your talents and expertise.

Guaranteed intellectual property
Simplicity and visibility in the acquisition and exploitation of intellectual property.

member case study

 

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b<>com uses AI to support TDF's technical interventions

To maintain its industrial sites, TDF plans to intervene with its 300 technicians, organized in local teams of 15 people, on all its sites in France. Nearly 100,000 interventions take place every year! A key challenge is, therefore, to save on inter-site journeys.

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Providing a solution to enhance Viaccess Orca's anti-piracy video content offering

Viaccess-Orca enables content creators, owners, and service providers to protect their content and activities against video piracy. The company must diversify and strengthen its protection offering, particularly by exploiting digital watermarking technology.

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With b<>com, Naval Group accelerates the digital transformation of its industrial and naval operations

Thanks to b<>com, Naval Group is accelerating the digital transformation of its industrial and naval operations using innovative 5G connectivity and operator monitoring technologies.

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Adilson Borges

Dean & Executive Director, Rennes School of Business

b<>com gives us access to an exceptional ecosystem of innovation, at the highest level worldwide, to support scientific and technological developments that are transforming all areas of management and organization, providing opportunities for tech entrepreneurs.
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Pierre-Alexandre Bidard

EVP Products and Services, Viaccess-Orca

By collaborating with b<>com, we are setting a new standard with the VO dynamic watermarking solution to protect quality content against the new and constantly evolving forms of piracy.
Dominique Soler - CEO de Human Design Group

Dominique Soler

CEO, Human Design Group

Our cooperation with b<>com enables us to accelerate our R&D activities and benefit from technological support to valorize our solutions.

provision of employees

The circle of members invests, in particular, via the provision of researchers, teacher-researchers, and engineers who work together on innovative technological solutions. A provisioned employee is made available to b<>com by his or her company. Joining b<>com means navigating between technological, economic, societal, and environmental challenges without losing sight of our goal: technological innovation for the common good.

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01.17.2025
Naval Group tests b<>com's 5G connectivity at its industrial sites
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Ateme, a global player in the video industry, joins the b<>com innovation circle
In the lead-up to IBC, the major international event for the broadcast industry, Ateme - a world[...]
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04.09.2024
b<>com and HDG put human at the heart of industrial innovation
Increasingly, manufacturers are placing human factors at the heart of their development. Objectives[...]
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10.27.2023
Health and private 5G: an ephemeral resuscitation service operational in just 24 hours!
b<>com continues its collaboration with Rennes University Hospital, exploiting the potential of its[...]