Shareholding of the French public centers CNRS and CEA, SOLEIL serves the international scientific community and industry. It is also a place for dissemination of scientific culture. Accelerator for innovation, growth and business competitiveness, SOLEIL makes available advanced skills and high performance equipment to manufacturers and industry service providers, and involves scientific instrumentation companies in its technological research: upstream within the framework of collaborative projects and downstream in the industrial and commercial exploitation of innovative devices designed by its teams.