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: BioHub, a chemistry projects to create products with cereals, without using oil HOMES, a project of housing with ultra-low use of energy Nanosmart, a project of substrate Quaero, a search engine TVMSL, a project of creating a standard of hybrid terrestrial and satellite mobile television based on DVB-H NeoVal, a small automated subway system to replace the VAL VHD (Hybrid Diesel Vehicle), which involves PSA Peugeot Citroën. The agency was headed by Jean-Louis Beffa and Robert Havas. In January 2008, the French government decided to merge the agency with the French small and medium enterprises support public agency, OSEO. External links Official web site The six projects VHD and Nanosmart Chirac unveils his grand plan to restore French pride Government agencies of France Research and development organizations Government agencies established in 2005