Who we are
A digital innovation accelerator serving industry
DEFI Lab – Digital Experiment and Facilities for Industry – is a digital innovation accelerator dedicated to industry.
Built on scientific excellence and structured collaboration between industrial and academic stakeholders, it supports its members in identifying, developing and integrating high-impact digital technologies.
DEFI Lab is built around three complementary levers:
- Access to high-level scientific knowledge and market insights
- Co-development of innovative cross-sector projects
- Access to a unique experimentation infrastructure: the PRISM innovation platform
By bringing together expertise, cooperation and technological resources, DEFI Lab creates an environment that supports controlled, strategic innovation directly connected to industrial challenges.
What we offer
A structured framework to turn digital innovation into industrial proof
DEFI Lab offers its members a structured framework to accelerate digital innovation, secure technology choices and turn ideas into industrial applications more quickly.
Our value proposition:
- Optimise processes to strengthen operational performance
- Reduce costs and risks through cross-sector pooling
- Deploy innovations across the entire value chain, from upstream stages to industrial roll-out
- Guarantee technological sovereignty through end-to-end control of solutions, from concept to implementation
- Provide a secure experimentation environment within dedicated infrastructures
Our approach is based on cooperation between members, who work together to:
- Analyse the maturity of key digital technologies
- Define innovation roadmaps aligned with their strategies
- Structure and prioritise high-potential projects
- Test and qualify solutions in conditions close to real industrial environments
- Inform investment decisions through scientific input and specialised monitoring
DEFI Lab mobilises shared resources to address challenges common to a committed community, with a focus on collective efficiency and measurable impact.
Why create DEFI Lab?
Addressing the challenges of a complex and strategic technological environment
Industrial digital innovation is evolving in a complex, fast-changing and demanding technological environment where opportunities and risks coexist.
Without a structured framework linking scientific understanding, technology assessment and industrial experimentation, initiatives often remain fragmented or insufficiently aligned with strategic priorities.
DEFI Lab was created to meet this need by providing a selective framework focused on the real challenges faced by industrial players.
- Reduce uncertainty around emerging technologies
- Share perspectives between organisations facing similar challenges
- Accelerate the qualification of solutions before large-scale deployment
- Build a shared base of experience that creates value for all members
How we operate
A collaborative methodology designed for operational impact
DEFI Lab relies on a clear and structured methodology based on complementarity and co-construction.
We operate according to four principles:
Complementarity among members, centred on coherent cross-sector digital challenges
Close cooperation between industry and academia, focused on applied R&D projects
Targeted sharing of strategic insights and monitoring to support decision-making
Structured access to expertise and experimentation resources, enabling concepts to be tested quickly against industrial realities.
This organisation supports a controlled transition from technological exploration to operational implementation.
A unique infrastructure
High-level experimentation resources to secure scale-up
DEFI Lab members benefit from privileged access to high-level facilities such as the PRISM innovation platform.
With experimentation capabilities in conditions representative of industry, PRISM is a flexible infrastructure offering scalable technological resources.
De la fabrication additive à l’inspection numérique et à la robotique intelligente, PRISM est conçue pour développer, tester et évaluer des solutions innovantes, en intégrant l’intelligence artificielle et la continuité numérique dans les processus de production.