CARINNA is the Champagne Ardenne Research and Innovation Agency providing services for research laboratories and companies.CARINNA ensures missions based on three areas of project logic:
1- Project engineering:
- Support for setting up the projects: providing contacts for scientific players, materialisation of projects, defining partnerships and researching industrial and financial partners.
- Assistance in response to regional, national and international calls for proposals (CPER, National Research Agency, Framework Programme for Research and Development, Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, European Structural Funds….); monitoring regional projects.
2- Assistance with technology transfer and promotion:
- Support for research laboratories to identify industrial partners on the basis of knowledge or technology developed in R&D programmes,
- Stimulation of technology transfer in connection with public and private structures,
- Support for the creation of young innovative enterprises linked with public research laboratories
3- Support for developing innovation in businesses
- Raising awareness among SMEs of the innovation culture, promoting regional skills among businesses, promoting new technology,
- Analysis and monitoring of the needs of SMEs in terms of innovation,
- Increase in innovation in all shapes and forms in regional businesses.