Cutting-edge scientific facilities
The leading R&D, innovation, and scientific research center in Europe, Paris-Saclay is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities including some of the world’s unique technologies. By joining the innovation ecosystem of Paris-Saclay, private enterprises have the opportunity to access exceptional, innovative, and high-performing infrastructures and human expertise, allowing them to conceive, test, and produce new solutions.
Digiscope
A collaborative platform offering high-capacity digital zoom devices. These technologies enable the study of complex data, particularly in collaborative workshops related to industrial design. Their application domains are varied: scientific discovery assistance, design, engineering, product lifecycle management (PLM), decision support, as well as teaching and training.
Automobile Aeroacoustic Wind Tunnel (S2A)
Acoustic and aerodynamic wind tunnels, used notably by scientists and giants in the automotive and aerospace industries.
Neurospin
A research center for innovation in brain imaging. Neurospin hosts the ISEULT project, the world’s most powerful MRI at 11.7 Teslas. This equipment allows significant advances in fundamental research, related to cognitive sciences and understanding brain pathologies.
SOLEIL Synchrotron
Paris-Saclay is home to one of the 20 latest-generation synchrotrons in the world, a particle accelerator that hosts an average of 2,000 users per year. A large electromagnetic instrument, the synchrotron is intended for high-energy particle acceleration. This equipment is useful in a wide variety of sectors, from health to energy to transportation, automotive, and aerospace. With an exceptional emission spectrum, the Synchrotron allows the study of the elemental composition of objects, their chemical kinetics study, protein crystallography, etc.
Idris - Jean Zay supercomputer
Attached to the CNRS, this center offers various resources and services in scientific computing, including intensive high-performance numerical computation and artificial intelligence. It also houses the Jean Zay supercomputer, the most powerful in France with 28 petaflops.
Teratec
Paris-Saclay offers the most powerful computing tools in Europe. Teratec is a digital simulation hub fostering collaboration between large companies, research laboratories, and young startups. Within its laboratories, it hosts the Very Large Computing Center (TGCC) of the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
Icgex
A high-throughput genomic data processing platform, supported by the Institut Curie.
Paris-Saclay: a rich ecosystem where researchers and companies collaborate
The leading deep tech R&D center in Europe, Paris-Saclay hosts over 79,800 companies and more than 300 research laboratories. Both large corporations and startup leaders benefit from immediate proximity to internationally renowned scientific research projects and cutting-edge technologies.
The first European deep tech R&D cluster
With more than 16,000 researchers, Paris-Saclay is a globally significant center for scientific research. Research activities mainly focus on six major themes: Aerospace-security-defense, Health-biotech, Mobility, Agritech-agrotech, Ecological transition, and Digital technologies.