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Promotech European Centre of Enterprise and Innovation, Promotech has the mission of :
- Inciting and accompanying the creation of innovative businesses, in the sectors of industry, value added services, the art of production and new technologies ;
- Accompanying the development of existing businesses and the implementation of new activities by specific development or "coaching" actions.

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Business plan software, 40 office incubators, 3000 m² premises equipped with the shared services on the technopole of Nancy-Brabois.

The objectives of Promotech CEEI are of 5 natures :
- To spark entrepreneur vocations, notably in the youth and students by sensitisation and adapted promotion ;
- To participate in the creation of viable economic business activities by professional accompaniment for project bearers ;
- To favour the durability of young businesses by hosting the start up and follow up in the first years ;
- To push for the internationalisation of businesses by help in the implementation of transborder partnerships, the community of entrepreneurial knowledge and the opening on the European Space Agency ;
-Accompany the development of businesses by support for the formalization of their projects, putting them into contact with the competences and means, and support  in the search for financing.

Promotech contributed in the creation of 710 new activities. Its average annual activity is divided in the following manner :
Information on creation :
- Creation sensitization modules in the postsecondary educational institutions and participation in the juries of business creation projects.
- Conferences on business creation by young graduates in student forums.
- Presentation stands in different local and regional fairs.
- Monthly information letter "Visa."- Portal of relay points (pedagogic support in business creation and project management system).
- "Entrepreneurship" competition in order to lead students to create their business: 1300 candidates in 11 editions, 132 businesses created by participants.
- The pathways to innovation: discussion séances in order to choose the niches of business creation.
Accompaniment of the creation phase, 150 creators welcomed per year, 80 business plans accompanied, 30 to 35 business creations :
- The business plan method: state of a project, action plan and accompaniment in setting up the project.
- AptitudeS: work on the human aptitudes of the entrepreneur (30 cases per year).
- Train IT: business plan operationalization (3 session per year).
Hosting and follow up of the young business, 40 to 45 businesses hosted, 30 businesses followed up :
- 3000 m2 premises equipped with the shared services on the technopole of Nancy - Brabois.
- Follow up of the launch of the business, sensitization and accompaniment for European opening.
Accompaniment of the development of the businesses, 68 businesses met, 44 projects accompanied :
- Development of new products.
- Business structuring by the integration of new competence.
- Productive investments.
- Creation of activities by the identification of needs common to several businesses.