The Agence de l'innovation industrielle was a French governmental agency created in 2005 to support technological projects. As of 2006, it was supporting seven projects: *

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, a chemistry projects to create products with cereals, without using oil *

HOMES A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. ...

, a project of housing with ultra-low use of energy * Nanosmart, a project of substrate *

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, a search engine *

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, a project of creating a standard of hybrid terrestrial and satellite mobile television based on

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* NeoVal, a small automated subway system to replace the VAL * VHD ( Hybrid Diesel Vehicle), which involves

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. The agency was headed by

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and Robert Havas. In January 2008, the French government decided to merge the agency with the French small and medium enterprises support public agency,

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Official web siteThe six projectsVHD and Nanosmart
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