PARIS DEVELOPPEMENT PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE BUSINESSES

A broad range of support programs is available to both companies and individuals. Through Paris Technopole, Paris Développement supports 9 corporate incubators as well as specific Mentoring and Recruitment Programs.

CORPORATE INCUBATORS

Paris Développement manages dynamic business incubators and related support programs. The incubation support programs catalyze the process of starting and growing companies by providing entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks and tools they need to make their ventures successful. Today, businesses around Paris benefit from 9 corporate incubators:

Agoranov: linking Paris' top research universities with the Ministry for Research and Technology and frequently backed by public research, Agoranov is specifically orientated towards companies with innovative technologies. 

Paris Biopark: is the bio-incubator of Paris. With over 335,000 fully equipped square feet dedicated to Biotech businesses, the incubator brings together all the support and services required to assist companies pursuing innovation in human health.

Paris Innovation - La Villette: provides an ideal environment for young multimedia/internet companies to flourish. With over 53,800 high tech square feet, the incubator has all the necessary support programs, from business networking to one-on-one mentoring, to ensure growth for innovative internet-orientated businesses.

Paris Innovation - Réunion: the most recent of the Paris corporate incubators, the Digital Media Incubator boasts over 20,000 wired square feet of facilities and office space. The incubator is dedicated to young, innovative, multimedia companies that provide content or applications in multimedia, from video games and animation to learning industries.

Paris Innovation - Bourse: as a pioneer incubator in France, Paris Innovation was established to allow young companies to focus on their core business. The incubator acts as a facilitator by supplying the networks and business service providers that growing companies need.

Paris Pioneers: is dedicated to female entrepreneurs, notably in the field of service providers to individuals and to companies. The incubator reflects the needs of the women who have started up service companies.

Paris Soleillet: as one of the oldest incubators, Paris Soleillet provides quality office space and business networking facilities for a wide range of companies.

Paris Innovation - Republique: over 40,000 specially designed square feet merging high-tech ambitions with traditional savoir-faire of French design and fashion industries. Today, the incubator responds to the needs of innovative companies focused on fashion, publishing and artistic creation.

Telecom Paris Entrepreneurs: dedicated to CIT companies, the incubator serves the ambitions of entrepreneurs from one of Paris' top higher-education facilities, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.

MENTOR PROGRAMS

Paris Développement, through its internal structure grouped under Paris Technopole, has a number of well-designed, informal and formal business mentoring programs. Each program has specific goals, schedules, training (for mentors and mentees) and evaluation. The mentoring programs focus on young entrepreneurs, creativity and innovation.

Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé. There are two types of mentoring relationships: formal and informal. Informal relationships develop on their own between partners. Formal mentoring, on the other hand, refers to assigned relationships, often associated with organizational mentoring programs designed to promote business development.

RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS

Paris Développement, through its internal structure grouped under Paris Technopole, has a range of recruitment, candidate and job opportunity identification procedures, as well as personal placement programs focusing on the young innovative business.

These programs are managed both off-line through informal meetings, seminars and gatherings and on-line by utilizing dedicated software systems that help networking, linking the recruiter, the co-opter and the candidate.