Lyon Ingenierie Projets

What Lyon Ingenierie Projets does

Lyon Ingenierie Projets (LIP) is a French private limited company (SAS) founded in 2006 that provides professional research project engineering and management services across the full lifecycle of innovative R&D projects. The firm is structurally anchored to Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), which is its majority shareholder, and to Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), which acquired a capital participation in 2019. Through this dual academic-clinical ownership, LIP operates as the dedicated intermediary for assembling, financing, and managing collaborative research projects emerging from UCBL's 2,800 researchers and teacher-researchers and HCL's clinical research environment, while also serving private companies and public/private funding bodies across France and Europe.

The firm's offering is delivered as a single integrated service rather than a modular product suite. LIP identifies innovation opportunities, brings together academic and industrial stakeholders, structures R&D projects, designs financing scenarios, prepares funding applications (including for EU framework programmes such as Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and French national programmes such as ANR, FUI, RHU), formalizes partnerships through contracts, and provides ongoing administrative, financial, and legal project management. A specialized toolbox of current calls, templates, presentations, and webinars supports the funding application function. Service delivery is carried out by a team of 35 collaborators based at the company's headquarters in Villeurbanne, within the Domaine Scientifique de la Doua adjacent to UCBL.

The business model is professional services B2B, with revenue derived from project management fees on R&D engagements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured per engagement. Go-to-market is direct and relationship-driven, leveraging the firm's privileged access to the UCBL research base and its positioning within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes innovation ecosystem, as well as its track record in multi-country European consortium projects. Geographic scope is regional (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) for direct service delivery and European for consortium-based engagements. The firm has no external venture or private equity backing and operates as a strategic operating entity supporting the regional and national research and innovation agenda.

Name

Lyon Ingenierie Projets

Legal name

Lyon Ingénierie Projets

Website

https://lip-lyon1.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lyon Ingenierie Projets is a French professional services firm that engineers and manages innovative R&D projects end-to-end for academic researchers, private companies, and funding bodies across France and Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Project Management Services

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Program & Project Implementation (TA Delivery) (BPADAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research & Learning (MERL) (BPADAEAB), Technical Cooperation, Capacity Building & Policy Advisory Programs (BPADABAO)

Keywords

• Research project management
• Innovation funding consulting
• European R&D services
• Academic industry partnerships
• Project engineering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Villeurbanne

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Project Management Services: Professional services for project engineering and management of innovative research and development projects, supporting the full lifecycle from emergence to completion.
2. European Funding Support: Assistance with identification, application, and management of public and private financing for R&D projects, including EU framework programmes.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lyon Ingenierie Projets is a project engineering and management firm that supports the development and realization of innovative research and development projects. It intervenes across all stages, identifying innovation issues, structuring R&D projects, elaborating financing scenarios, preparing funding applications, formalizing partnerships through contracts, and providing global project management support including dissemination and communication assistance. The offering is delivered by a team of 35 professionals as a unified consulting engagement rather than as discrete modular products.

Product overview

Lyon Ingenierie Projets operates as a single service offering centered on professional research project engineering and management. The company provides end-to-end support for innovative research projects, including project emergence and structuring, financing strategy development, funding application preparation, partnership formalization, and ongoing administrative/financial/legal project management. Rather than a platform with discrete modules, the service is delivered as a unified consulting engagement by a team of 35 professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Research Project Engineering and Management Services Professional engineering and project management services supporting the development and realization of research and development projects throughout their entire lifecycle, including project emergence and structuring, financing scenarios, funding applications, partnership formalization, and global project management. Targeted at academic researchers, private companies, and funding bodies.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• VIRUSong Consortium PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Partners include Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (coord), Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique CNRS (France), Agencia Estatal CSIC (Spain), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), NOSTICS BV (Netherlands), Universitaet Siegen (Germany). LIP ensures efficient project management and supports consortium in administrative, financial, legal aspects.
• SPARTE Consortium PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partners include Icohup, Universita' Degli Studi Di Milano-Bicocca, Ceske Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Praze, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Nano Active Film Srl. LIP supported consortium on financial and legal aspects and manages administrative, financial and legal aspects of project.
• SCANnTREAT Consortium PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partners include UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE, UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT, PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. LIP ensures efficient project management, monitoring of work packages, and overall financial and administrative management.
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Primary shareholder and founding partner since 2006. Lyon Ingenierie Projets leverages privileged partnership with UCBL's 2,800 researchers and teacher-researchers to emerge, build, and support innovative research projects.
• Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Since 2019, HCL took a capital participation in Lyon Ingenierie Projets. The 35 collaborators contribute to strengthening HCL's positioning in the Lyon life sciences ecosystem, facilitating public-private partnerships and research collaborations between HCL services and the socio-economic world.
• Cristal'innov Technological PlatformminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLIP submitted the Cristal'innov project to the 'regional technological platforms' call and is in charge of monitoring the platform. Collaborative projects benefit from LIP assistance with high success rate in ANR, FUI calls.
• Axel'one Collaborative Innovation PlatformminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLIP assisted founders to set up the project, find relevant funding sources, define strategic objectives and position the platform. Supports Axel'One in current development of activities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• INRAE Transfert: Private subsidiary of INRAE (France's national agrifood research institute) that manages partnership, valorization and project engineering for research projects. Most direct analog to LIP: a research institute's wholly-owned SAS doing project assembly, EU funding applications, and consortium management for academic clients.
• adelphi Research GmbH: German research and policy consultancy with deep EU framework programmes expertise (Horizon Europe, LIFE, Green Deal). Comparable as a competing specialist intermediary on consortium coordination for European R&D projects.
• PNO Consultants: Large pan-European consultancy specializing in EU funding applications and project management for Horizon Europe and related programmes. Closest commercial competitor serving a similar consortium-coordinator mandate from outside France.
• t33: French consultancy supporting EU research project design, drafting and management. Direct competitor for French academic clients seeking external project office support for Horizon Europe and ERC applications.

Broad incumbents

• CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives): Major French public R&D organization that runs its own industrial subsidiaries for EU project management and technology transfer; also named as a partner in LIP's SPARTE consortium. Comparable because it absorbs project management functions for very large French research portfolios at scale.
• CNRS Innovation: France's national research organization's dedicated vehicle for managing industrial partnerships, EU consortia and technology transfer. Operates at far larger scale than LIP but addresses the same class of problem: assembling and managing publicly-funded research projects for academic and industry clients.
• Inserm Transfert: Private subsidiary of Inserm (French national health research institute) handling EU project setup and technology transfer for biomedical consortia. Direct institutional analog to LIP on the hospital/health research side of LIP's partnership with HCL.

Regional players

• Pulsalys (SATT Lyon-Saint-Etienne): Lyon-area Technology Transfer Acceleration Company (SATT) operating in the same geographic ecosystem as UCBL; handles maturation and IP valorization for Lyon research outputs. Comparable because they sit in LIP's market and address overlapping academic-industry bridge-building needs.

Emerging players

• STEEP (S&T Experts Exchange Pool) / European Project Office Belgium: Belgium-based EU project office offering programme management, proposal writing and financial administration for research consortia. Smaller competitor addressing the same EU project management workflow LIP covers.

Others

• Axel'one (collaborative innovation platform): French collaborative R&D platform in advanced materials; LIP is documented as the partner that helped assemble it. Comparable as a client/partner that consumes LIP's project engineering services for platform setup and EU funding capture.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investments

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