Cooperation in innovation between France & SA Remarkable structures in the French innovation ecosystem Romain PETIT : Innovation and Technology Transfer Advisor Seconded by the French Government
A role at the interface of 3 different organisations with a nation-wide mandate French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development Innovation & Tech Transfer Advisor French Embassy in SA TUT University Regional economic Science Attaché Department French-SA Business France CCI
My objectives My mission is to develop the cooperation between France and South Africa on technological innovation matters, for all types of structures and for all sectors. Academics Academics Start-up companies Start-up companies SMEs SMEs Large companies Large companies Generation of valuable IP , New product / technology development / adaptation, JV creation Supporting structures Supporting structures = mutual economic & public institutions & public institutions interest
French ecosystem in South Africa Existing structures in South Africa are already materializing our cooperation and could be used to ramp it up. - French South African Technology Institute in TUT/ CPUT , existing for 20 years More info F’SATI - Telecom / power electronics / enabled living / space - Future F’SATI on agriculture F’SAGRI - University of Fort Hare + 300 French companies based in SA - French South African Schneider Electric F’SASEC with a large Education Center in VUT representation of our CAC40 - Product Life Cycle Management Center of PLMCC Competence in CPUT in collaboration with Dassault Systemes - Presence in South African research IRD / CIRAD / CNRS Institutions
Why France ? Most business start-up in Europe in numbers France is first in class for the number of innovative structures in Europe, third in the world according to Thomson Reuters 2014 TOP100 innovators ranking Largest business incubator in construction (2016) with a capacity of 1000 companies incubated at “Halle Freyssinet ” 4000+ start-up already supported only at a Parisian level France leads the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking with 86 companies in the 500 fastest growing companies The largest European delegation at the CES2015, with 160 companies, receiving 23 awards
Investments for the future program An important development program reshaping the innovation ecosystem in France. PIA: Investments for the future program - A program to prepare the future, set during the Started in 2010 aftermath of the 2008 crisis Support of existing - Facilitating mutualisation, pooling, platforms, structures or creation emergence of world- class capacities… of new ones € 35B (2010) + € 12B - For ex: € 1B for valorisation and technology transfer (2013) - Some subventions but mostly interests (3%) from the Indirect investment capital - Some structures should be self-sufficient after 10 10 years years of operation (SATT)
French national innovation ecosystem Carnot Institutes Private sector Research & High Education Technological Research Institutes IRT ITE IHU Independent C&TTO National Valorisation support CVT’s Regional Competitiveness clusters Regionalized clusters C&TTOs: SATT Private incubators Public incubators Private incubators Start-up Technology Clusters transfer Applied & translational Incubation research Disclaimer: this is not an exhaustive view !
Clusters 71 competitiveness clusters dedicated to partnership innovation structure our ecosystem nationally. Competitiveness - 71 thematic Competitiveness clusters ‘ Poles de clusters compétitivité ’ dedicated to collaborative innovation and industrial development covering all sectors - Projects factory between industry, research & higher education - Focus on one domain and one territory, in coherence Clusters with the national strategy: a cluster strategy defined by the members, approved by the state Applied & Public funding - Industry & State driven translational - Created in 2005, with 3 independent assessments research - More than 600 foreign companies implied Technology transfer - Clusters : mainly focused around supporting and Regional networking of SMMEs sharing the same industry on a Incubation clusters given territory, not so much on innovation. Industry driven. - “ Grappes d’entreprises” : regional clusters with a more important innovation & training dimension. Local authorities often involved.
Clusters Competitiveness clusters The French competitiveness cluster map
Applied and translational research One key initiative was the recent creation of the Technological Research Institutes to accommodate partnership research in link with these clusters. - 34 research centres dedicated to research serving Carnot companies whether they are SMME or large Institutes corporations - Represents 15% of French public laboratory workforce Clusters - € 455 M of contract research financed by companies - 65 spin-off companies per year - Opened to the international companies Applied & Public funding translational - Covering all research areas research Technology Technological transfer - Call for proposals in 2010/11 - € 2B on 10 years Research - Grouping of research capacities locally, on a specific Institutes domain of excellence to create a world class Incubation research centre - Connected to a world-class competitiveness cluster, with a focus on market driven research and commercialisation - 8 IRT: Technology Research Institutes - 9 ITE: energy transition institute - 5 IHU: University hospital Institute
Commercialisation and tech. transfer Grouping of tech transfer capacities are now at the core of our ecosystem. - Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert Technologique, 14 SATT ‘companies for accelerating technology transfer’ - Mutualisation of C&TT resources on one territory - Companies with Universities & research centres on one territory as shareholders - Created in 2012 - 400 professionals, with fields of expertise Clusters - Results: 60 companies created & € 100 M invested through maturation fund - One Association of the SATT Applied & Public funding - Partnership agreements between SATT and independent translational research C&TTOs Technology transfer - Consortia de Valorisation Thématique – ‘ Consortia of 5 CVT Thematic Valorisation’ - Coordinating and supporting national valorisation on one Incubation theme in cooperation with the SATT and other C&TTO - Aviesan (Bio/Healthcare) , Allenvi (Environment), CVSTENE (ICT), Athena (Human Sciences), Valorisation Sud (Tropical, equatorial, and developing countries) Independent - Independent C&TTOs of main public research organisms: C&TTO INRA Transfert, Inserm Transfert , CEA Tech, INRIA…
Technology transfer Regionalized C&TTOs: SATT The SATT map
Incubation A diversity of incubators to accommodate all type of start-up businesses. - 28 incubators created in 1999 dedicated to technology- Public based innovation: 25 multi-disciplinary & 3 specialised: incubators Life Science (Paris Biotech Santé – Paris & Eurasanté - Lille) & ICT (Belle-de-Mai, Marseille) - Financed by the F . Ministry of Higher Education & Research (50%), local authorities and EU Social Fund ‘ Allègre ’ - Support for 24 months for innovators coming from the incubators Public research or awarded from the National contest for Clusters innovative company - 4,000 innovative companies projects incubated leading to Applied & Public funding the creation of 2,700 companies translational research - Centre Européen d’Entreprises et d’Innovation , partnership between local authorities and the European Technology Union, financed by the EU through the European Business transfer CEEI and Innovation Center Network (EBN), projects can be less technological than in the above mentioned incubators Incubation - For instance, Paris&Co, the economic development Incubators of agency of Paris manages 10 incubators, for tech-enabled local authorities start-up companies - Private incubators either from schools or industry- Ex: 1000 start-up @ Halle Freyssinet co-financed by Xavier Private Niel (Iliad/free) & CDC in partnership with the City of incubators Paris
Public funding A one- stop shop for the French public funding (of innovation): BPI France… BPI France Clusters Applied & Public funding translational research Technology transfer Incubation
Public funding …but also other initiatives worth mentioning. Funding tools - BPI tools: grants, interest-free loans, equity investment and notably the FUI funding (Cross-ministerial Unique Fund) to finance collaborative innovation projects approved by the competitiveness clusters - SATT: seed fund for technology transfer Clusters - Local authorities funds for innovation - European tools: FEDER… - Contests: ex. National contest for the creation of Applied & Public funding innovative companies for 17 years (MESR/BPI France) translational research Technology transfer - The best rated R&D tax credit in Europe (CIR: 25% of Tax credits the increase of R&D spending) , gave birth to the Incubation innovation tax credit in 2014 ( market research spending, ICT companies…). - A JEI label, Young Innovative Company label allowing an increased tax incentive on R&D - A doubled tax credit when a company collaborate with a Carnot Institute (50%)
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