ARIST

Arist Limousin-Poitou-Charentes is located in Limoges and Poitiers.
Its staff works for all the regional fabric. It operates as a public utility service
(free of charge) but also as a private operator.

ARIST is a Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry department.

Our mission is to promote Innovation and to help companies in their diversification action
thanks to optimized use of the strategic and technological Information

"Pre-consultancy" and " first information " (public utility mission)

We provide standards, regulation, and intellectual property (patents, trademarks, patent designs) general information. Within the framework of our partnership with AFNOR AND INPI, standards full text and abstracts of the Intellectual property French office (INPI), of the European Patents Office (EPO) and international (PCT)bulletin are available for consultation in our premises.

We send customised information (announcement of new standards or regulations, technical innovation, competitor information...) to regional companies or institutional.

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- Specialized services.
Our services portfolio includes :

- "Decision making Tool".
We realise complete study including synthesis and recommendations from technological, normative, legal, competitive and commercial information, such as: state of the art, search for prior arts in patents and trademarks...

- " Watch Service"
We regularly provide technological, normative, legal, competitive and commercial information useful for the company Watch Scheme.

- Assistance to strategic watch scheme implementation :
We do transfer methods and tools necessary to lead the strategic analysis, to build the watch scheme; to treat and to exploit the information, to implement development actions...

- Assistance to ecodesign implementation (see DURABILIS method).

- " Innovation project management".
One of the SMEs' handicaps is the low rate of managerial staff, which leads to multiply the executives' missions. Therefore they meet several difficulties in their project management. That is why we developed this project management assistance for SME (realization of the financial support application, elaboration and follow-up of the planning...)

- " Innovation Relay Centre ".
Arist LPC is member of the Southwest IRC; it actively promotes European technological partnership.