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Cooperation in innovation between France & SA French innovation ecosystem Romain PETIT : Innovation and Technology Transfer Advisor Seconded by the French Government

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Cooperation in innovation between France & SA

French innovation ecosystem

Romain PETIT : Innovation and Technology Transfer Advisor

Seconded by the French Government

France, a haven for innovation

The largest European delegation at the CES2015, with 160 companies,

receiving 23 awards

France leads the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking with 86 companies in the 500

fastest growing companies

Most business start-up in Europe in numbers

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 is first in class for the number of innovative structures in Europe, third in

the world according to Thomson Reuters 2014 TOP100 innovators ranking

French ecosystem in South AfricaExisting structures in South Africa materialize our cooperation and could be

used to increase it.

F’SAGRI

F’SATI

F’SASEC &

PLMCC

- French South African Technology Institute in

TUT/ CPUT, existing for 20 years

- Telecom / power electronics / enabled living

/ space

- F’SATI on agriculture

- University of Fort Hare

- F’SASEC: French South African Schneider

Electric Education Center in VUT

- Product Life Cycle Management Center of

Competence in CPUT with Dassault Systemes

+ 350 French companies based in SA with a large

representation of our CAC40, employing 20 000 persons

Higher

Education /

research and

professional

training

IRD / CIRAD

/ CNRS- Institute of Research for Development

- Hosting in South African research Institutions Research

Business

French national innovation ecosystem

Private sector

Start-up

Research & High

Education

Public

incubators

Carnot

Institutes

Regionalized

C&TTOs: SATT

Private

incubators

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

Competitiveness

clusters

Private

incubators

Technological

Research Institutes

IRT ITE IHU

Independent

C&TTO

Technology

transfer

Regional

clusters

National

Valorisation

support CVT’s

Disclaimer: this is not an exhaustive view !

CRITT

Clusters

- 71 thematic Competitiveness clusters ‘Poles de

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

with the national strategy: a cluster strategy defined

by the members, approved by the state

- Industry & State driven

- Created in 2005, with 3 independent assessments

- More than 600 foreign companies implied

Competitiveness

clusters

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

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- Clusters : mainly focused around supporting and

networking of SMMEs sharing the same industry on a

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.

Regional

clusters

71 competitiveness clusters dedicated to partnership innovation structure our

ecosystem nationally.

71 « pôles de

compétitivité »

18 world class clusters

defined according to their

critical mass

53 other clusters with

national goals and visibility

Clusters mappingClusters Competitiveness

clusters

Development:

New activities in

favor of SMEs

growth

Stage 2

2009-2012

Maturity?

Creation of new

jobs and growth

perspectiveLaunch:

First R&D

collaborative

projects

The « pôles de compétitivité » policy’s stages

Stage 3

2013-2018

Stage 1

2005-2008

Clusters Competitiveness

clusters

Independent consultants

6-month work with 2 days in each cluster to meet members

A poll and 2 surveys

An assessment focus on:

• Quality of the cluster’s strategy and its implementation

• Animation and governance: private involvement to finance the cluster,

expenditure repartition in the different activities

• R&D capacity: kind and number of projects, actions to facilitate the

emergence of R&D collaborative projects

• Actions in favor of an innovation-friendly ecosystem

• Actions in favor of SMEs growth: contact with investors, skills needs,

infrastructure development, international cooperation, etc.

• Economic results and visibility

The 2012 assessment

Clusters Competitiveness

clusters

The success of collaborative R&D

- 1200 selected projects since 2005

- > €5 B of R&D financing

- €2,2 B of public support

First economic effects of R&D projects: job creation, firm growth

A collaborative effect between industry and research

Still difficulties to evaluate results in terms of job creation, GDP, etc.

First Results in terms of innovation projectsClusters Competitiveness

clusters

Strong SME involvement:

- 9 700 firms in all, 80% of which are SMEs

- SMEs have benefited from more than 50% of subsidies allocated by the Single

Interministerial Fund

- SMEs lead 45% of projects in 2011

Entrepreneurial spirit: 17% of firms are less than five years old

Increased cluster cooperation

- More and more projects selected by two or more clusters (40% of projects)

- Greater cooperation between thematically similar clusters

- Intersection of different types of clusters: market-targeted clusters (health,

transports, etc.) and technologies-targeted clusters (ICT, materials, etc.)

First Results in terms of collaborationClusters Competitiveness

clusters

A positive impact of Cluster policy

• 66% of firms create jobs thanks to clusters and 84% maintain jobs

• 60% of firms increase their R&D investments

• At least 1 000 patents and 100 startups thanks to R&D projects (between 2008 and 2011)

• 200 startups creation are linked to the cluster activity

• +4% SMEs annual growth if firm participate to R&D project

A positive impact of public support to R&D

These results should increase in the coming years with the end of more projects.

First Economic ResultsClusters Competitiveness

clusters

One goal: to increase economic impacts of the cluster policy

2 means:

– To define a new role for cluster, further than selecting R&D

projects:

support to go to the market

– To increase the cluster support to SMEs growth: contacts

with investors, anticipation of skills needs, export capacity,

etc. .

Stage 3 (2013-2018)

Clusters Competitiveness

clusters

Structuring cluster policy : Building the ecosystem

Creating an environment to nurture cluster growth

– Improving synergies between clusters and the stakeholders on their territory: creation of infrastructures (innovation platforms), business incubators, etc.

– Integrating more SMEs

– Increasing private financing

– Developing human resources

– Reaffirming IPR framework

– Improving the Cluster International visibility

– Developing durable cluster cooperation

Boosting private-sector financing: a new label for innovative SMEs

– A concept created by France's world class clusters with Ministry support

– Creation of selection committees to find SMEs with high growth and innovation potential

– Specialized training

– Possibility to obtain individual appointments with business angels or investors

Competitiveness

clustersClusters

Key learnings

No “one size fits all” approach

Define precisely the objectives and vision of the clusters: innovation ? Business

? Export oriented ?

Build on a private and public sector mobilization both nationally and locally

Aim at building critical masses

Develop the cooperation at all stages: between companies, higher education,

public authorities

Create specific incentives for cooperating

Streamline the innovation process and innovation support and funding entities

It takes time so give time to the process, but review and adapt it progressively

Competitiveness

clustersClusters

Applied and translational research

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

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- 34 research centres dedicated to research serving

companies whether they are SMME or large

corporations

- Represents 15% of French public laboratory workforce

- €455 M of contract research financed by companies

- 65 spin-off companies per year

- Opened to the international companies

- Covering all research areas

Carnot

Institutes

- Call for proposals in 2010/11 - €2B on 10 years

- Grouping of research capacities locally, on a specific

domain of excellence to create a world class

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

Technological

Research

Institutes

One key initiative was the recent creation of the Technological Research

Institutes to accommodate partnership research in link with these clusters.

Commercialisation and tech. transfer

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

Technology

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- Consortia de Valorisation Thématique – ‘Consortia of

Thematic Valorisation’

- Coordinating and supporting national valorisation on one

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)

5 CVT

14 SATT- Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert Technologique,

‘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

- Results: 60 companies created & €100 M invested

through maturation fund

- One Association of the SATT

- Partnership agreements between SATT and independent

C&TTOs

Grouping of tech transfer capacities are now at the core of our ecosystem.

- Independent C&TTOs of main public research organisms:

INRA Transfert, Inserm Transfert, CEA Tech, INRIA…

Independent

C&TTO

200 regional

CRITT- Regional technical stations to help SMEs developing

their products

Technology transfer Regionalized

C&TTOs: SATT

The SATT map

Incubation

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

Technology

transferPubli

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- Private incubators either from schools or industry- Ex:

1000 start-up @ Halle Freyssinet co-financed by Xavier

Niel (Iliad/free) & CDC in partnership with the City of

Paris

Private

incubators

Public

incubators

- 28 incubators created in 1999 dedicated to technology-

based innovation: 25 multi-disciplinary & 3 specialised:

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

- Support for 24 months for innovators coming from the

Public research or awarded from the National contest for

innovative company

- 4,000 innovative companies projects incubated leading to

the creation of 2,700 companies

- Centre Européen d’Entreprises et d’Innovation,

partnership between local authorities and the European

Union, financed by the EU through the European Business

and Innovation Center Network (EBN), projects can be

less technological than in the above mentioned

incubators

- For instance, Paris&Co, the economic development

agency of Paris manages 10 incubators, for tech-enabled

start-up companies

‘Allègre’

incubators

Incubators of

local authorities

CEEI

A diversity of incubators to accommodate all type of start-up businesses.

BPI France

Public funding

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

Technology

transferPubli

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A one-stop shop for the French public funding (of innovation): BPI France…

Tax credits

Public fundingPubli

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Funding tools

Applied &

translational

research

Incubation

Clusters

Technology

transfer

- 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

- Local authorities funds for innovation

- European tools: FEDER…

- Contests: ex. National contest for the creation of

innovative companies for 17 years (MESR/BPI France)

- The best rated R&D tax credit in Europe (CIR: 25% of

the increase of R&D spending), gave birth to the

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%)

…but also other initiatives worth mentioning.

Thank you !Romain PETIT

[email protected]

079 743 4432