Polygone Scientifique

The area was formerly a polygone d'artillerie or artillery range, with ammunition depots, thus the name.

Polygon hosts in 1956 the first French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) outside Paris and created by Professor Louis Néel.{{Cite web|url=http://www.grenoble-isere.com/en/national-research-centers|title=National research centers|website=www.grenoble-isere.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019161937/http://www.grenoble-isere.com/en/national-research-centers |archive-date=19 October 2014 |url-status=usurped}} In 1962, it hosts a campus CNRS. In 1967, the Laboratoire d'électronique et de technologie de l'information was founded by CEA and became one of the world’s largest organizations for applied research in microelectronics and nanotechnology.

Three international organizations are implanted between 1973 and 1988 with the Institut Laue–Langevin, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and one of the five branches of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. In 2006, the complex Minatec specializing in nanotechnology opens on the Polygon and in 2007, the Institut Néel, specializing in condensed matter physics, is founded.

National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields has also numerous collaborations in terms of technical and technological innovations with these institutions.

In 2008, the new innovation campus is called GIANT (Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies).{{Cite web|url=http://www.france-science.org/GIANT-French-American-Workshop,3090.html|title=france-science.org, GIANT French-American Workshop 2015.}}[http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7370-547a nature.com, France: Peak of potential.]{{Cite web|url=https://en.grenoble-em.com/partners|title=Partners|date=June 20, 2014|website=Grenoble Ecole de Management - en}}

In 2012, Clinatec is founded on Polygone Scientifique by Professor Alim-Louis Benabid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20141216/Clinatec-chairman-receives-Lifetime-Achievement-Award-for-breakthrough-research-on-Parkinsons-disease.aspx|title=Clinatec chairman receives Lifetime Achievement Award for breakthrough research on Parkinson's disease|date=December 16, 2014|website=News-Medical.net}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141110006060/en/Clinatec-Chairman-Alim-Louis-Benabid-Wins-3-Million-2015-Breakthrough-Prize-in-Life-Sciences-for-Parkinson%E2%80%99s-Disease-Work|title=Clinatec Chairman Alim-Louis Benabid Wins $3 Million 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for Parkinson's Disease Work|date=November 10, 2014|website=www.businesswire.com}}

The Polygon is served by Grenoble tramway.

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• National Institute for Materials Science

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• [http://www.giant-grenoble.org/en/ Official website of GIANT]
• [http://www.piecesetmaindoeuvre.com/IMG/pdf/Projet_GIANT.pdf Project GIANT in 2007.] {{in lang|fr}}
• [http://www.nims.go.jp/eng/news/archive/2014/10/201410140.html nims.go.jp NIMS and GIANT Conclude a Memorandum of Understanding on Collaborative Research Center.]

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