The European Synchrotron (ESRF) in Grenoble, France is an international research facility that produces synchrotron radiation 100 billion times brighter than hospital X-rays. It functions as a "super-microscope" for exploring materials and living matter across many industrial fields. The ESRF runs specialized beamlines for experiments and works with over 40 countries. It provides access and services for industry research in areas like catalysis, materials engineering, and drug discovery.

1. Introducing the
European
Synchrotron and
working with
industry
.
Ed Mitchell
Head of Business Development
Honorary Professor Keele University (UK)

2. THE EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON (GRENOBLE, FRANCE)
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The ESRF is the world's most intense synchrotron X-ray source and a centre
of excellence for fundamental and innovation-driven research in condensed
and living matter science. The ESRF produces X-rays 100 billion times brighter
than the X-rays used in hospitals. These X-rays, endowed with exceptional
properties, are produced at the ESRF by the high energy electrons that race
around the storage ring, a circular tunnel measuring 844 metres in circumference.
Thanks to the brilliance and quality of its X-rays, the ESRF functions like a "super-
microscope" to see atomic, nano and micro structures under processing and
end-use conditions. It provides unrivalled opportunities for scientists in the
exploration of materials and living matter in a very wide variety of industrially
relevant fields: chemistry and catalysis, material engineering, metallurgy and
composites, drug discovery and formulation, medtech, consumer products,
environmental sciences, and nanotechnologies, amongst many others.
The ESRF runs 43 highly specialised experimental stations, called “beamlines",
each equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, operating 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
All of our beamlines and labs are open for industry.

3. HOW THE ESRF WORKS
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Bunches of
electrons
circulating at
close to light
speed
produce
intense X-ray
beams when
passing
through
magnetic
fields.
“Beamlines” all around
the ring harvest the X-
rays, tailoring them with
specialised optics ready
to be used experiments.

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A MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION: 21 PARTNER NATIONS
13 Member states:
France 27.5 %
Germany 24 %
Italy 13.2 %
United Kingdom 10.5 %
Russia 6 %
Benesync 5.8 %
(Belgium, The Netherlands)
Nordsync 5 %
(Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Spain 4 %
Switzerland 4 %
8 Associate countries:
Israel 1.5 %
Austria 1.3 %
Centralsync 1.05%
(Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia)
Poland 1 %
Portugal 1 %
South Africa 0.3 %
21 partner nations
Annual budget: 100 million euros
Members of staff: 630 of 40 different nationalities
Legal status: Private civil company subject to French law
Peer review access based on scientific excellence,
provided free of charge for scientists from partner
countries.
Contributiontothebudgetin%

5. KEY FIGURES
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ESRF, France
ESRF key figures:
Scientific interest
 ̴6,500 user visits every year including ̴4,000
individual users
 ̴2,000 proposals per year: ̴900 accepted
 Nearly 2,000 publications per year: ̴5 every day and
25,166 reference articles in the period 1994-2014
 30% of the research at ESRF involves industrial
developments
 About 2M€ industrial income annually
 50 PhD students
Intense synchrotron-generated light for science & industry

6. AT THE HEART OF THE GRENOBLE INNOVATION CAMPUS
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30,000 strong: Assembling research,
innovation and higher education in
one location
www.giant-grenoble.org

7. A UNIQUE SITE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
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Institut
Laue-Langevin
European
Molecular Biology
Laboratory Institut de Biologie
Structurale
European
Synchrotron
Radiation Facility

8. INDUSTRY DRIVERS TO USE SYNCHROTRONS?
FastDetails and
mapping
In real
conditionsLook
inside
The added value of synchrotron X-rays allows researchers to look inside objects
with very high spatial resolution, with element selectivity, with a high speed to
follow dynamic processes (or to study many samples), and under real
manufacturing or end-use conditions.
Credit: Keith McDuffee
Credit: Gary Eyring
Credit: Robert Basic
Credit: Emil

9. CONTRIBUTING TO INDUSTRY INNOVATION

10. Feasibility access: “have a go”
Industry & Business at the ESRF
COLLABORATION
& GRANTS
• Industry sponsored staff (post-
doc, PhD, trainees…)
• Horizon 2020 and National
grants
TECH TRANSFER
Instrumentation
• Licensing: 30 technologies
• In-house manufacturing
• Consultancy
CLIENT SERVICES
Proprietary, Complex
and Mail-in Services
• >150 unique clients
• Joint “CRO” provision
• Full IP rights to client
PUBLIC BEAM TIME
30% linked to Industry,
Must be published
HOW DOES ESRF WORK WITH INDUSTRY?
• Universities with industry
• Industry on its own

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Building routine services
with industry, for industry.
… protein crystallography, micro-CT, SAXS/WAXS, powder, small
molecule crystallography, powder diffraction, bioSAXS …

12. Feasibility access: “have a go”
Industry & Business at the ESRF
CLIENT SERVICES
Proprietary, Complex &
Pre-Packaged Work
>150 unique clients
• Joint “CRO” provision
• Full IP rights to client
HOW DOES ESRF WORK WITH INDUSTRY?
1. Fixed price “per sample” mail-in
services – for example:
3. Simple quote with clear terms and
conditions and rapid NDA turnaround
5. Dedicated support scientists in key
areas and rapid access
(MX, tomography, SAXS)
2. Tailored full service work for more
complex research needs
4. Dedicated commercial admin team
SAXS @ 150€ MX @ 70€

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A more complex
collaboration.

14. Industry & Business at the ESRFHOW DOES ESRF WORK WITH INDUSTRY?
• 3-year collaboration with publicly
available results
• 12 days of access/year; 200k
capital investment and joint PhD
student
• Statistical analysis of copper
pillars used in 3D chips
PUBLIC BEAM TIME
30% linked to Industry,
Must be published
• Universities with industry
• Industry on its own
• Innovation-led Long Term
proposal
Automated nanotomography

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Grants and
collaborations.

16. Industry & Business at the ESRF
COLLABORATION
& GRANTS
• Industry sponsored staff
(post-doc, PhD, trainees…)
• Horizon 2020 and National
grants
HOW DOES ESRF WORK WITH INDUSTRY?
1. Placement student programme:
a few weeks or up to a year,
immersed in a research, technical,
admin, or business project at ESRF.
2. Industry sponsored staff
CIFRE PhD with
local Grenoble
biotech
2-year metallurgy
post-doc funded by
OCAS
PROTEA
support
3. Grants
6.5MEuros for ESF-ILL-CEA
to build links to micro-nano-
electronics industry for
materals characterisation

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Tech transfer and IP
valorisation.

18. Industry & Business at the ESRF
TECH TRANSFER
Instrumentation
• Licensing: 30 technologies
• In-house manufacturing
• Consultancy
HOW DOES ESRF WORK WITH INDUSTRY?
“a nursery for
synchrotron technology”

19. “Synchrotrons are a universal
advanced materials analysis tool”
CORE MESSAGE
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20. “Synchrotrons are a universal
advanced materials analysis tool”
CORE MESSAGE
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21. “Synchrotrons are a universal
advanced materials analysis tool”
CORE MESSAGE
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22. ESRF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ET AL.
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Dedicated entry point
coordinating industry access
and collaboraton:
• Provision of commercial
services
• Feasibility access
• Influencing ESRF future
programme with industry input
• Leveraging grant opportunities
industry@esrf.eu

23. ESRF Business Development Office
Grenoble, France
industry@esrf.eu
www.esrf.eu/Industry
mitchell@esrf.eu +33 (0) 476 882 664
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