École Polytechnique

École Polytechnique is a selective French engineering school and public research institution with 23 laboratories, more than 1,600 staff, and a compact, research-intensive profile. Located on the Paris-Saclay plateau near Paris, it sits within a dense concentration of universities, national laboratories, technology companies, and corporate R&D sites. Its laboratories are shared with organizations including CNRS, Inria, and Inserm, while dedicated partnership staff structure industrial collaborations, contract research, CIFRE theses, technical services, and joint laboratories. Research is supported by competitive funding from France’s national research system, including the ANR, and by European programs. Commercialization is supported through IP management, licensing, startup creation, the 5,000-square-meter Drahi-X Novation Center, and the X-UP incubator.