The Paris Innovation tours : « meet, discover & exchange » The Paris Innovation Tours will be held for the 3rd time in Paris on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th October 2007 2 days, 3 innovation clusters, 6 thematic conferences and tours An event based on the three clusters : digital, health, and design Meetings and exchanges in partnership with the representatives from the international trade clusters. Meetings thanks to the help of foreign clusters. You can help us : - relaying information - furthering meetings Round tables allowing exchanges with international representatives Useful Information : Venue : Contact : La Cité des Sciences + 33 (0)1 56 88 29 00 30, avenue Corentin Cariou
[email protected] F - 75019 Paris More information on our website http://www.paris-innovation.com
The Paris economic development agency An initiative of both the City of Paris and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Paris Development is the organization which promote economic growth in the french capital.
Objectives Promoting Paris and its business community Attracting investment projects from worldwide businesses, Contributing to the creation and development of innovative and hightechnology companies, Strengthening and retaining economically and strategically important investment.
3 centres of expertise DIGITAL Video games, software and services
HEALTH Oncology, neurosciences, cardiovascular, ophtalmology
4 business incubators Paris Innovation – Villette Digital technologies Paris Innovation Bourse High technologies
DESIGN More reasons to enjoy your trip to Paris : Take some time to discover the city Touristic activities : www.parisinfo.com. Go to “What’s on”. Attend a major sport event in Paris The 2007 Rugby World Cup : www.france2007.fr
Product, textile, packaging, graphic and environmental
Paris Innovation – République Creation and design Paris Innovation Réunion Digital content
Paris key figures
Paris innovation network Developing businesses in Paris
650 000 companies based in Paris Region 46 % of France's private sector R&D expenditure captured by Paris Region Employment in Paris Region 5 345 300 Employment in Paris 1 650 600 Paris Region has the highest concentration of R&D expenditure in Europe Paris Region has the highest concentration of researchers in Europe
Paris Développement key figures 101 members
Building international innovation networks Our key objectives towards international areas => promote Paris as the capital of innovation and creativity => gathering innovative companies or research centres amongst the partner cities, => welcoming foreign innovative start-up companies in Paris, => detecting collaborative projects in the digital, health and design sectors.
Talents & Innovation regular events
Funding Prototype funding scheme Innovative projects and technologies scheme
Support
Business Brunches
Corporate incubators Mentor programs
New business creation scheme
Health Sciences Evening Debates The Grand Prix for Innovation
Recruitment programs
Paris Innovation Tours
Youth business creation scheme
Developing and strengthening 3 high value added centres of expertise Our key partners
In partnership with
San Francisco Paris and San Francisco are the two “Digital Sister Cities”. Several technological or social projects linked to new technologies have begun in 2006.
DIGITAL
Montréal The partnership concerns 5 items : urban transport, design, social economy, life science, wired cities.
DESIGN HEALTH
3 innovation clusters
Shanghai The agreement furthers exchanges between accompanying structures for innovative companies in the two cities.
28 team members 79 start-up companies in 2006 9 000 m² dedicated to start-up companies
The 5 great projects to reinforce Paris assets 1 - A new business incubator will welcome around 20 digital content companies,
2 - Paris Biopark : 18 000 m² dedicated to biotechnologies
3 - Institute of Vision : an international research centre for eye diseases.
4 - Gigacom : very high speed internet through the air for the north-east of Paris.
5 - PlayAll : a collaborative R&D strategy for video games.
