Fiches Dispositif

The Inno Tech offering has 4 aspects:

- Personalised entrepreneurial attendance: Carried out by a business leader, who can intervene from the technological development phase, and who adapts himself in the long-term to the evolution of the project. During monthly meetings continued over 2 to 3 years, this attendant initiates the creator to his new profession of business leader by sharing his experience with him and bringing a “field vision” of the development of the project and the start-up of the business.

- National networking: Thanks to the networking between its members and award winners in innovative technologies, Entrepreneurship Network® puts the business creator in contact with several business leaders on the national level, who evolve in his domain of activity. These professionals of the field, with the National Delegate Inno Tech, bring him very focused advice on his project: Pertinence of technological choices, market positioning, development strategy…

- Enrichment in a club of multi-sectoral award winners: The Inno Tech award winner joins a club of award winners that meets every month for exchanges and interactive training with other business creators and takeover entrepreneurs from all sectors of business activity.

- Financing by an interest and guaranty free loan: The amount of the interest and guaranty free loan varies from € 30 000 to 90 000 per business, intended to support the creator during the crucial phases of his business (technological development/commercial launch), without request for guaranties and reimbursable over 5 years with an exemption for 18 months.

Creators of innovative businesses and technologies.

Inno Tech is aimed at innovative technologies project bearers/business creators, whose product and/or technology has shown its feasibility:
- Certain projects in emergence phase;
- Projects in commercial launch phase.

The sectors particularly targeted are: biotechnologies, health technologies, electronics, mechatronics, NICT, environment, multimedia…

Conditions of access to the Inno Tech Entrepreneurship scheme:
- A technological project more complex than traditional projects;
- A need for greater financing (R&D, prototype development before placement on the market) and often the necessity of rapidly opening its capital;
- An increased need for exchange for the new entrepreneur confronted by fundamental strategic choices in the positioning of his product and his business.

Entrepreneurship Network® is:

An exceptional deposit of competences:
- 3 000 member business leaders;
- 3 000 former award winners.
- and among them, 700 managers evolving in “technologically innovating” sectors.

A know-how that cannot be ignored in the attendance of bearers of projects with potential, future regional SME.

Partnerships with innovation actors in France: OSEO, RETIS network, incubators…

The offering of Entrepreneurship Network® is versatile within:
- a dedicated structure on the national level with a permanent delegate for the Inno Tech program;
- national networking.

Entrepreneurship Network® puts the creator in contact with business leaders at the national level who evolve in his domain of business activity:
- capable of validating the feasibility of the project;
- ready to share their competences and their experience, they bring their advice focused on his project: pertinence of technological choices, positioning on the market, development strategy…;
- that can also sometimes be their future clients or suppliers, in the respect of the values of the Entrepreneurship® Network.

A “double” individual attendance:
- an experienced local entrepreneur that he meets monthly (classic EN accompaniment);
- a specialist from his sector that he can solicit for major strategic choices.

Enrichment in a club of multi-sectoral award winners in order to prepare for the realities of the business world.

A member of the CA of RELorraine reference for the program.