Collaborative innovation platform for crystallogenesis

Cristal Innov brings together the main European players in the crystal industry and covers the entire technology chain, from R&D laboratories to production.

Collaboration

Projects hosting

Located in a high-tech industrial building favourable to the installation of pilot lines. This 7,000 m² building, equipped with industrial facilities (fluids, energy…) including clean rooms, combines shared spaces and private premises where confidentiality is guaranteed.
A co-working offer that makes it possible to welcome researchers and PhD students.

R&D hosting services

Technology

Equipment

State-of-the-art equipment in crystal synthesis, substrate preparation and characterization.
Cristal Innov makes these pooled resources available to academia and industry in an environment dedicated to innovation and process co-development.

Areas of R&D

TechnoFab

Prototyping

To carry your innovations through!
Pooled technical resources accessible 24/7.
A wide area of expertise, with the ability to mobilize experts from the crystal community on a specific project.
• Prototyping workshop.
• Study of new applications.

TechnoFab services

Provide an R&D environment to innovate and improve the competitiveness of SMEs and industrial manufacturers positioned in the crystal markets:

Founded in 2011

Our vision

At the beginning: a regional consortium of 7 laboratories, 15 industrial manufacturers and local authorities aiming to set up an industrial-level technology platform (compared to existing ones with R&D resources).

A leader: the UCBL (Claude Bernard University of Lyon 1), which seeks in particular to disseminate and promote the research work of its laboratories to regional SMEs.

EZUS Lyon, a private subsidiary (limited company with a Board of Supervision) of the UCBL, ensures the administrative and financial management (as for all the platforms of the University) while LIP (Lyon Ingénierie Projets), another private subsidiary of the UCBL, ensures the strategic steering and the setting up of collaborative projects.

Our team

The expertise of Cristal Innov’s team covers all crystallogenesis technologies, with experience in both R&D and industry.
The expertise of Cristal Innov’s team covers all crystallogenesis technologies, with experience in both R&D and industry.
Our engineers and technicians master the different steps of TRL and they know how to lead a technology roadmap with you.
In production mode, Cristal Innov is part of ISO 9001 quality certification process.

CRYSTALS AND PROCESSES INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

Very small to medium-sized businesses, industrial manufacturers, academic laboratories Pooled resources supporting your innovation

2 000 m²
square meters of technology rooms

Equipped with clean room for pilot line

R&D offering

2

millions euros of pooled equipment

20

collaborative projects

technology services

10

permanent staff

50

members and partners

Piezoelectric crystal-based product range

A cluster to foster networking

Crystals > Substrates & processes

Fondée en 2011 par un partenariat entre industriels et laboratoires d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Pilotée par l’Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Dotée d’une gouvernance collégiale. Inscrite dans l’écosystème d’innovation régional. Soutenue par les collectivités territoriales.

Founded in 2011 by a partnership between industrial manufacturers and laboratories from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.