Since 2005, competitiveness clusters have been established in France in order to boost innovation so as to benefit of business and employment.

Tec 21 is closely associated to four of these established in the Rhône-Alpes region (see below).   

Tec21 works in close collaboration with the technology transfer office LINKSIUM, which was created in Grenoble to speed up the transfer of the research results from the laboratories to the industry.