TKM was born from the spin of a laboratory of the INRA and the University of Grenoble in economics of innovation and data mining applied to scientific literature and technology.
Buoyed by four researchers from the UMR in the incubator and Grain created in 2004 by :
- Christophe Lecante, Economist specialized in mathematical modeling, that his career he has worked successively in the day and strategic marketing in North America, then BU manager on behalf of an international group of services, general manager of a service structure in aviation more than 300 people, then as an entrepreneur in Toulouse in 2001 with Olivier Sadran of Toulouse.
- Jean Lecante – retired – Director of a laboratory of solid state physics at CEA Saclay and the Laboratory use of electromagnetic radiation (LURE) in Orsay, Synchrotron Soleil ancestor of the development which he has participated in the 90's.
- Julien Lopez Rios – Doctor in - School of Physics Chemistry of Paris and founder of an innovative start-ups Ciprian Grenoble.
- Paul David – Grenoble entrepreneur and investor and CEO of Isermat.