It includes a significant number of research centers in a peninsula between Isère and Drac.
The area was formerly a polygone d'artillerie or artillery range, with ammunition depots, thus the name.
Polygon hosts in 1956 the first French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) outside Paris and created by Professor Louis Néel.
National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields has also numerous collaborations in terms of technical and technological innovations with these institutions.
[2][3][4] In 2012, Clinatec is founded on Polygone Scientifique by Professor Alim-Louis Benabid.