Since March 2008, Expernova has set up the broader business networking that links industry to research. Expernova wishes to promote the true opportunity that represents the Research/Industry partnership in order to boost innovations or to intervene on strategic projects.

The benefits are huge:

• An extensive database of advanced skills
• Creativity and independence
• A wide range of activities
• Numerous subsidies and grants
• Significant tax benefits
• Simplified contracts

Therefore expernova.com aims to allow our users to:

• get easier access to research
• detect new innovation opportunities
• identify the best scientific partners

In brief, our objective is to develop their innovation capabilities!


How to migrate from a simple directory to an intelligent identification tool that enables the detection of potential scientific partners? Expernova has decided to base its development on innovating methods of data mining and semantic web. Both of them allow the mapping of skills within the Research centres by exploring automatically thousands of scientific publications. These research works enable a rapid growth of functionalities. A scientific partnership with a laboratory (CNRS/UM2) has been set up in order to boost this innovation.


All the services and functionalities of Expernova have been designed and developed in compliance with the following principles:

• Easy to use
• Confident and secure
• Relevance of the returned results

Expernova wishes to establish trustful and long-lasting relationships with its customers and users in order to assist them in the identification of high-skilled partners.


To face the challenges of its vision, Expernova was created by a team that has skills in both engineering and management (engineers, computing PhDs, HEC - French major business school). The founders have significant experience - both in France and internationally – on ambitious projects within blue-chip companies and SMEs.


Eager to stick to operating issues experienced by companies and to work methods within the research sector, Expernova has developed a network of high-level advisors that assists the company in its strategic choices: corporate executives, laboratory directors, coordinators of expertise networks...